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London, Ont. lawyer subpoenas Justin Trudeau in stone-throwing case
Shane Marshall, 26, of St. Thomas, is charged with assault with a weapon for allegedly throwing stones at the PM

Author of the article:Dale Carruthers
Published Dec 22, 2022 • 3 minute read
Mounties remove Shane Marshall after stones were thrown at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau during a Sept. 6, 2021, campaign stop. A lawyer for Marshall, who was charged with assault with a weapon, has subpoenaed the PM to testify at Marshall's trial in March. (Free Press files)
Mounties remove Shane Marshall after stones were thrown at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau during a Sept. 6, 2021, campaign stop. A lawyer for Marshall, who was charged with assault with a weapon, has subpoenaed the PM to testify at Marshall's trial in March. (Free Press files)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been served.


London lawyer Phillip Millar has subpoenaed the prime minister to testify at the March 7 trial of Shane Marshall.


Marshall, 26, of St. Thomas, is charged with assault with a weapon for allegedly throwing stones at the prime minister during a Sept. 6, 2021, campaign stop in London.

London lawyer Kevin Egan confirmed he was retained to receive the subpoena on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office, but declined further comment.

Millar announced plans in August to subpoena Trudeau, but said it took longer than expected to get a judge’s approval.

“It’s not surprising because it is the prime minister of Canada and they want to make sure they’re not frivolously burdening the elected leader of our country,” Millar said of the nearly four-month process.


On the day of the alleged assault, Trudeau was leaving a campaign stop at London Brewing Co-op when small stones were thrown in his direction. Video of the incident shows the prime minister turn as he appears to be struck with gravel before boarding the bus as a crowd of demonstrators – many holding People’s Party of Canada signs – yell at him.



Trudeau told reporters on the bus he wasn’t sure whether the stones struck him. “Does it matter?” he said to a reporter asking if he’d been hit.

But the next day, Trudeau said gravel struck him and condemned the “unacceptable” incident, adding he was more worried about Canadians being targeted by individuals opposing COVID-19 vaccinations.


Millar’s subpoena says the defence will rely on two videos of Trudeau speaking about the incident.

“Additionally, since the PM’s evidence has changed, Mr. Marshall’s right to . . . defence necessitates the ability to cross-examine the PM on his prior inconsistent statement,” reads the subpoena dated Dec. 19.

The four-page document states the subpoena for Trudeau is an “absolute necessity” because no other person can provide the same evidence.

“The PM’s testimony is material because it connects the facts of the incident to the elements of the charges,” it reads.

Millar said he hopes Trudeau will testify in person at the one-day trial, rather than by video link, but added a virtual trial would let people across Canada watch the proceedings.


The Prime Minister’s Office didn’t respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Marshall, who’s had a series of run-ins with police since his involvement in demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions, was profiled in a police intelligence report prepared during the “freedom convoy” protests earlier this year.

Redacted copies of the OPP’s intelligence bureau reports were released in October by the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry into the federal government’s justification for invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the convoy protests.

The 13-page report flags Marshall as “violent” and known for carrying weapons and drugs. He’s associated with the Church of God in Aylmer, the site of frequent protests against COVID restrictions, and the far-right group Diagolon.


Marshall’s name was redacted from the report, but the charges against him and a social media post showing him at the Ottawa protest, where he was later arrested, confirm he is the subject of the profile.

Marshall was a People’s Party of Canada riding association president at the time of the alleged attack on Trudeau, but the party turfed him after online reports linked him to the stone-throwing incident.

Millar said police “overcharged” his client and called it an attempt to silence a political opponent.

“Assault with a weapon is a very serious charge (involving) a prime minister,” the lawyer said. “He’s exposed to serious jeopardy if convicted.”

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“Assault with a weapon is a very serious charge (involving) a prime minister,” the lawyer said. “He’s exposed to serious jeopardy if convicted.”
Assault with a weapon, yes. Assault with a pebble... not so much.
 

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"Trudeau told reporters on the bus he wasn’t sure whether the stones struck him. “Does it matter?” he said to a reporter asking if he’d been hit."

Yeah, it does matter. I'm no legal expert but I don't think attempted assault is in the Criminal Code. Lord knows attempted arson isn't.

Also, "I'm not sure if the stones struck me" is another way of saying "No, they didn't."

Trudeau is just a fucking whiny little pussy.
 

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If some Yahoo threw gravel at the PM, that’s wrong. If the same Yahoo throws like a girl….that’s on him & not Trudeau.

If someone is able to pelt you with rocks, I’m assuming that’s something that you would know…and adrenaline aside, that’s something for a judge to figure out I guess if JT claims he doesn’t know if he was hit or not. Still doesn’t make the fact that it happened (hitting his target or not) something that is acceptable by any means.

“Assault with a Weapon” is a real charge. I have no idea where things would stand legally if he didn’t actually hit his target? It’s still pretty juvenile though to try.

if somebody spits on you that’s assault. It doesn’t matter that you’re not going to be physically harmed from that spittle, so the fact that it was only a handful of gravel is irrelevant. What may be relevant is whether or not JT was or wasn’t actually hit, but that’s outside of my very limited knowledge base so I don’t have an opinion on that one.

The fact that this guy threw a handful of gravel at the PM & probably missed, might not actually be Assault, but I could definitely be thought of as a “Threat to Assault” I’m going to assume, but again, it’s not like I know what I’m talking about.
 
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If some Yahoo threw gravel at the PM, that’s wrong. If the same Yahoo throws like a girl….that’s on him & not Trudeau.

If someone is able to pelt you with rocks, I’m assuming that’s something that you would know…and adrenaline aside, that’s something for a judge to figure out I guess if JT claims he doesn’t know if he was hit or not. Still doesn’t make the fact that it happened (hitting his target or not) something that is acceptable by any means.

“Assault with a Weapon” is a real charge. I have no idea where things would stand legally if he didn’t actually hit his target? It’s still pretty juvenile though to try.

if somebody spits on you that’s assault. It doesn’t matter that you’re not going to be physically harmed from that spittle, so the fact that it was only a handful of gravel is irrelevant. What may be relevant is whether or not JT was or wasn’t actually hit, but that’s outside of my very limited knowledge base so I don’t have an opinion on that one.

The fact that this guy threw a handful of gravel at the PM & probably missed, might not actually be Assault, but I could definitely be thought of as a “Threat to Assault” I’m going to assume, but again, it’s not like I know what I’m talking about.
You are correct in that it was uncalled for . Politicals and all citizens should be able to move freely without the threat of violence held over them .
 

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Justin Trudeau won't testify at trial of accused gravel-thrower: Judge

Shane Marshall is accused of throwing gravel at the PM during a London, Ont. election campaign stop in 2021

Author of the article:Jane Sims
Published Mar 06, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read

Canada’s prime minister won’t be testifying at the London trial of a man accused of throwing gravel at him during a London election campaign stop in 2021.

Superior Court Justice Ian Leach quashed the subpoena issued by defence lawyers for Shane Marshall, 26, who was a riding association president for the People’s Party of Canada and is set to go to trial on a charge of assault with a weapon in the Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday.


Marshall was charged after a Sept. 6, 2021, incident at a Liberal campaign whistle stop at a London craft brewery where police said gravel was thrown at Justin Trudeau as he was boarding his bus.

Leach gave a brief oral decision at the end of a hearing Monday and said he should have written reasons either by the end of Monday or early Tuesday.

But based on the motion hearing, it appears Leach was relying on Trudeau’s parliamentary privilege as a sitting member of Parliament that gives him testimonial immunity. Once that right is established, the court cannot compel him to testify while Parliament is in session.


Leach made it clear, while listening to arguments from lawyer Luke Reidy – from defence lawyer Phillip Millar’s office – on behalf of Marshall, that once parliamentary privilege is invoked he had no other option than to quash the subpoena.

The lawyer for Trudeau characterized the subpoena as a “fundamentally political gesture” and “an abuse of process.”

“Just like throwing the gravel was, this subpoena is a fundamentally political gesture,” said Fredrick Schumann at the hearing, arguing on behalf of Trudeau.

He pointed out the Crown didn’t see the need to call Trudeau and said the court record doesn’t show Trudeau’s evidence would be relevant to Marshall’s defence.

Trudeau, he said, had his back turned when the stones were flying. He pointed to Marshall’s statement to the police, where at first, Marshall denied throwing the gravel, but when presented with other evidence, admitted he threw the stones at Trudeau and told officers it was “a childish and silly act.”


An assault-with-a-weapon conviction doesn’t require an actual application of force, just an attempt. The issue at the trial, Schumann said, is who threw the gravel and the intent.

Schumann pointed to statements made to the media by Millar that he wanted to challenge statements made by Trudeau about the incident, saying Trudeau was “provoking the protestors” and followed up with a statement about how he would “love to cross-examine the prime minister.”

“The real issue, the identity of the thrower, is admitted, so we have to ask ourselves why is Mr. Marshall so intent on subpoenaing the prime minister?” he asked, answering that this was a political stunt.

He said Millar’s statements to the media were “strange” given “his client is someone who has already admitted that he threw the gravel at the prime minister and where an assault can be committed even if there is no impact.

“It certainly gives rise to a concern that this subpoena is being sought for a political purpose,” Schumann said.

Marshall’s real purpose in calling Trudeau, he said, is “to turn this cross-examination into a political confrontation in which he accuses the prime minister of provoking the protestors and where he attacks the government’s COVID-19 response.”



Assistant Crown attorney Jeremy Carnegie, who is heading up the prosecution at Tuesday’s trial, agreed.

“It seems that the defendant is saying he’s like to hold the prime minister accountable for what he said and the use he wanted to make politically of what he said,” he told Leach, adding none of that had anything to do with the charge before the court.

Reidy argued Trudeau gave inconsistent statements and showed two videos of Trudeau’s response. One video was filmed on the bus moments after the gravel was thrown, where Trudeau said he may have been struck with the stones in the shoulder and it wasn’t a big deal.

The second was a media scrum where Trudeau said he felt the gravel hit him and it was “absolutely unacceptable” for anyone to throw anything at political rallies and pivoted to how health care workers were under attack every day by anti-vaxxers.

Reidy also said while he understood parliamentary privilege takes precedence, quashing the subpoena infringes on Marshall’s charter rights.

He said Trudeau’s evidence is material to the case and there are inconsistencies to his statements. Leach noted there are three other witnesses due to testify they saw the gravel hit the prime minister.

Reidy said his interpretation of Marshall’s statement to the police was that he threw the gravel “to celebrate” and that Millar’s comment “just speaks to his involvement in this case and his level of commitment to our client’s innocence. It doesn’t speak to any improper purpose.”

During Reidy’s argument, Leach said his decision had to focus strictly on the law in front of him regarding the admissibility of the subpoena and the law for parliamentary privilege is clear. He wasn’t in a position to hear any Charter-related arguments and suggested they could be argued at the trial.

The trial is set for Tuesday without the prime minister on the witness list.

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Ass fault appears to be much of True Dope's problem.
Nah, his biggest problem is he's a commie piece of shit pretending to be a Liberal, just like his father. Why do ya think he paints everyone who opposes him as some kind of right-wing extremist? Listen, it's what the Soviets did in Eastern Europe after WW2. Pretty much everyone who opposed them in the occupied countries were labeled as fascists or nazis. Putin's pretext for invading Ukraine is they're a bunch of nazis. Putin is a throwback to the old Soviet Union days.
Basically, even if there is no real threat, invent one. To be fair though that applies to both extremes.

And what's really not amusing is Quebec is the only province that is legislating extremist right-wing policies while Trudeau berates the ROC for the "existential threat of right-wing extremism" that exists within the ROC.
 
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Nah, his biggest problem is he's a commie piece of shit pretending to be a Liberal, just like his father. Why do ya think he paints everyone who opposes him as some kind of right-wing extremist? Listen, it's what the Soviets did in Eastern Europe after WW2. Pretty much everyone who opposed them in the occupied countries were labeled as fascists or nazis. Putin's pretext for invading Ukraine is they're a bunch of nazis. Putin is a throwback to the old Soviet Union days.
Basically, even if there is no real threat, invent one. To be fair though that applies to both extremes.

And what's really not amusing is Quebec is the only province that is legislating extremist right-wing policies while Trudeau berates the ROC for the "existential threat of right-wing extremism" that exists within the ROC.
Don’t worry on this international day of honouring women and all they have done for the human race our esteemed PM loudly and proudly proclaimed that men are women if they want to be .
 
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Gravel-thrower pleads guilty to assaulting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Shane Marshall, a former local riding president for the People’s Party of Canada, entered the plea Tuesday

Author of the article:Jane Sims
Published Mar 07, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read

The man who threw stones at Canada’s prime minister – then tried to have Justin Trudeau come to London to testify at his trial – made a surprise guilty plea to assault Tuesday.


Shane Marshall, 26, of St. Thomas, who was a People’s Party of Canada riding association president, had been charged with assault with a weapon for the Sept. 6, 2021, incident at a Liberal campaign whistlestop at a London craft brewery.


The guilty plea to the lesser charge signalled the end of a drawn-out legal battle during which Marshall’s defence team was determined to cross-examine Trudeau.

A subpoena was quashed by a Superior Court judge on Monday, largely because Trudeau, as a sitting member of Parliament, has parliamentary privilege and cannot be compelled to testify while the house is sitting.

However, a lawyer from Trudeau argued that the subpoena was not much more than a political stunt to question the prime minister about public health policies during the pandemic.


After a morning of legal wrangling, Marshall agreed to the plea and told Ontario Court Justice Kevin McHugh he was entering it voluntarily and without any pressure.

Assistant Crown attorney Jeremy Carnegie reviewed the facts for the judge. He said Marshall was at the London Brewing Cooperative as part of a group of protestors at the Trudeau event.

As Trudeau was boarding his campaign bus, a small handful of gravel was thrown from a small group of protestors. The incident was recorded and posted on social media.

London police, Carnegie said, were able to review several videos and photographs and were able to see Marshall, carrying a large flag mounted on a hockey stick, pacing behind the protestors, then bending down to pick up some loose gravel in a driveway and throwing it over the crowd and in the direction of Trudeau.


A number of witnesses saw Marshall throw the stones, Carnegie said.

The police were able to identify Marshall through a St. Thomas police mugshot and arrested him, he said.

A pre-sentence report was ordered and a sentencing date was set for May 1.



It took a while before the plea deal was hammered out. Lawyer Luke Reidy, from London lawyer Phillip Millar’s office that is representing Marshall, initially asked McHugh for an adjournment so that the law firm could put together an application to argue that Marshall’s right to answer in full defence had been infringed.


He told McHugh that the quashing of Trudeau’s subpoena couldn’t be appealed and without Trudeau’s testimony, the defence’s strategy had to be altered.

A woman sitting in the body of the court yelled out that the defence needed to have the “ability to cross-examine the accuser.” After a second outburst, McHugh ordered her removed from the courtroom.

He also said the defence needed time to review seven photographs and two 30-second videos that had been shown to Marshall by London police during his police statement where it was revealed during the subpoena quashing hearing that Marshall had admitted to throwing the stones.

McHugh noted that the Crown had sent the police statement to the defence eight months ago, and that Millar’s office knew that a challenge to the Trudeau subpoena was coming for a month.


Carnegie said that Trudeau never gave a statement in the case except for a brief conversation with an RCMP officer who was going to testify.

There were Crown witnesses available to testify and McHugh was about to make a ruling before Carnegie asked for a brief recess to speak to the defence.

Outside the courtroom, Reidy said that while the Trudeau testimony was wanted by the defence, “the evidence that is before the court is compelling. There was strong evidence that the Crown was intending to lead and because our rights had been limited in our ability to question the prime minister, we had discussions with Mr. Marshall.”

As Reidy was speaking to the media, Marshall left the courthouse.

“No comment,” he said as he walked away.


Marshall, who’s had a series of run-ins with police since his involvement in demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions, was profiled in a police intelligence report prepared during the “freedom convoy” protests in 2021.

Redacted copies of the OPP’s intelligence bureau reports were released by the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry into the federal government’s justification for invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the convoy protests.

The 13-page report flags Marshall as “violent” and known for carrying weapons and drugs. He was associated with the Church of God in Aylmer, the site of frequent protests against COVID restrictions, and the far-right group.

Before court began, a large group of anti-Trudeau demonstrators assembled in front of the London courthouse, some with flags and the slogan “F– Trudeau.”

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