The reporter said to Pierre “You’ve been criticized for your support for the trucker convoy, one of your fellow candidates has even said you should be disqualified for leadership of the party.  Has your opinion on the trucker convoy change since? And is your support of the truckers a liability moving forward?”

Pierre responds that his position has not changed. “I said at the very outset before they even arrived. But I simultaneously stood with a law abiding and peaceful truckers who were fighting for their livelihoods and liberties, while condemning any individual who breaks the law blocks critical infrastructure behaves badly. That is the position I took, then it’s the position I take now.”

Pierre says that Jean Charest, “learned about the trucker convoy on CBC like other liberals, and he misrepresented them. He believes that I should be censored, he believes I should be canceled from this leadership, race and disqualified in his words, because I don’t share his liberal viewpoint.”