Source: Huge crowd, few protesters greet Trudeau in Orillia (12 photos) – OrilliaMatters.com
But not everyone was happy Trudeau decided to swing by the riding.
About a dozen protesters armed with placards and megaphones voiced their displeasure of the current government.
Two teenage boys painted their faces brown to protest photos that show Trudeau dressed as Aladdin when he worked as a teacher.
“We should not have this in our country,” said Seth, who declined to give his last name. “He’s supposed to be a role model.”
A fellow protester, who identified himself as Good Samaratin, said Trudeau shouldn’t be idolized.
“This guy has done some evil things and is robbing us blind,” he said, adding that he ran Trudeau out of Barrie during a previous campaign stop there.
“It’s hard to believe that Canadians and veterans are homeless. He sold the corporation right down the piggy bank.”
The man said he only wore a yellow vest to Friday’s event “to bring light to the darkness.
“He’s a dictator, We’re in a serious battle between good and evil.”
Prior to Trudeau’s arrival, a mother-and-daughter duo, holding aloft a large Bruce Stanton sign outside Mariposa Market, chanted anti-Trudeau slogans lustily as a crowd of Hawes’ supporters held up their own, smaller red signs.
At one point, a man approached the women, got in their faces, and told them to stop yelling. There was an exchange of insults.
Members of the RCMP arrived on the scene and de-escalated the situation. However, a short while later, one of the RCMP officers told one of the women holding the Stanton sign to stop swearing or he would arrest her.
When she yelled in his face, he appeared to move to restrain her. At that point, it appeared she tried to push him away and that triggered a take-down and arrest of both women, who were taken away in handcuffs.
–With files from Dave Dawson
