Europeans have seen dictators before, and call them as they see them. Why is Trudeau so widely disliked by European politicians? European powers begin to label Canadian leadership as a dictatorship. February 22, 2022. On Feb. 22 Irish independent Senator Sharon Keogan called on her government to condemn PM Justin Trudeau’s Freedom Convoy crackdown. “This sounds like something we would hear about in regard to Russia … instead this is happening in the supposedly liberal democracy of Canada.”