Evangeline Lilly Appeals to Justin Trudeau To Hear From the People Sitting Out in the Cold at Your Door – Vanity Fair

Evangeline Lilly appeared in a five-minute video this weekend with a direct appeal to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concerning the ongoing protests against vaccine mandates in that country. The protests began in late January in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, led by cross-border truck drivers, and has since spread to other cities. The Ant-Man and Lost star, who was born and raised in Western Canada, published her cri de coeur on the Instagram page of Bridge City News, a daily program out of Alberta that airs on The Miracle Channel, Canadas first over-the-air religious television station.

In a calm tone with noticeable "oot"s for "out"s, Lilly opens by telling Trudeau she has concerns about his current approach to, and current treatment of, our fellow Canadians who are protesting your federal vaccine mandates. They have asked to meet with you, Prime Minister; medical experts, top scientists, doctors, nurses, parents, grandparents, intelligent, loving, concerned citizens. Why won't you sit with them?

She goes on to request he listen to what they have to say with a mind open to hearing things that might go against the ideas you are entrenched in. She also suggested he listen to Needle Points by Norman Doidge, the name of a four-part essay published in Tablet Magazine last November, and also the name of a January podcast hosted by Jordan Peterson, the ubiquitous controversial Canadian professor. Lilly says that Doidge, the best-selling author of The Brain That Changes Itself, has painstakingly and comprehensively laid out why these protestors are not unreasonable."

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In late January, Lilly attended an anti-vaccine-mandate hullabaloo in Washington, D.C., the same one where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared current American public health initiatives to the policies of Nazi Germany. Even in Hitler Germany [sic], you [could] cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did, he said, then later apologized after the Auschwitz Memorial's social media arm called his comments a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay.

From that event, Lilly posted some black and white shots to her Instagram to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing.

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Following these remarks, Lillys Ant-Man co-star David Dastmalchian, as well as fellow Marvel hero (and Canadian) Simu Liu, made social media comments about of their own about the value of Covid vaccines and the appropriate use of a wide platform.

The third Ant-Man picture, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, is scheduled for release in July 2023.

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