Lost and Ant-Man actress Evangeline Lilly is pleading with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with the Freedom Convoy protesters.
As Canadian leaders met to debate the recently invoked Emergencies Act, the Canadian actress took to Instagram to post a video and offer a solution to the divisiveness that she said has become a part of parliamentary rhetoric.
“What we need right now from our leadership is unification, and that requires being willing to see, recognize, and hear from the people sitting out in the cold at your door,” Lilly said in the video posted by Bridge City News. “Why won’t you sit with them?”
Lilly called on Trudeau and Canadian leadership to unify the people by finding solutions together, “not by vilifying those who say there is a better way.”
“You as a group have gone from ignoring them to dismissing them as fringe minority to smearing them as racist and misogynistic to now attacking them as terrorists,” Lilly said. “When you became prime minister of Canada, you did not just become prime minister of the people who agree with you. You became prime minister of every Canadian.”
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“You don’t get to pick and choose who you will care about,” she continued. “It is your civic duty to care about all Canadians — even those who you disagree with. Treating them with prejudice, suspicion, and illegal repression is not care.”
Lilly stated the number of protesters as being 2.3 million across the country, a figure that Canadian officials have not confirmed. On Jan. 31, former Ottawa Police Chief Pete Sloly stated that “tens of thousands of individuals from a wide variety of causes gathered” in Ottawa.
The Instagram video is not the first time Lilly has spoken out regarding COVID-19 mandates. In January, the Marvel actress posted about attending the Defeat the Mandates march in Washington, D.C.
“I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems,” she posted on Instagram. “I was pro-choice before COVID, and I am still pro-choice today.”
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On Feb. 14, Trudeau invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act that gave his government the power to prohibit public assembly and travel in response to the weekslong trucker protests.
