Amid the Paul Bernardo prison transfer scandal, it’s more clear than ever: Marco Mendicino is a serial liar who protects serial killers.
Here is The Counter Signal’s list of five times Marco Mendicino has lied to Canadians.
- The Paul Bernardo Prison Transfer lie
After news broke that one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers and rapists, Paul Bernardo, was being transferred from a maximum-security prison to a medium-security facility, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the development was “shocking,” implying that was the first he had heard of the matter.
Since then, it has been revealed that Mendicino’s office was informed of the Bernardo prison transfer three months prior to Mendicino acting as if he knew nothing about it.
Mendicino’s dubious explanation is that his staff knew for months that Bernardo’s transfer was imminent but failed to tell him until the day after Bernardo was moved to the medium-security institution.
Even mainstream media journalists were baffled by Mendicino’s idiocy, openly questioning his credibility during a scrum.
- The Emergencies Act lie
In April 2022, two months after the Trudeau Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act on the Freedom Convoy protesters and froze dissidents’ bank accounts, Mendicino said “It was on the advice of law enforcement that we invoked the Emergencies Act.”
In fact, he repeated that lie several times, including in the House of Commons.
Later, it was revealed by Ottawa police that they never asked for the Act to be invoked. Then-RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki also said she never asked for it.
Mendicino subsequently attempted to walk back his claims.
“It’s clear that the Minister made false statements in the House of Commons,” Pierre Poilievre later said.
Poilievre added, “And it wasn’t just about something trivial. He wanted to give Trudeau cover to invoke the Emergencies Act, freeze people’s bank accounts, and trample on civil liberties.”
- The Freedom Convoy lie
In February 2022, Mendicino hosted a press conference where he said that protesters at the Coutts border blockade in Alberta — where guns and body armour were found — had ties with “far-right groups” demonstrating in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy.
He was forced to walk back those claims after journalists pressured him to clarify his remarks.
Ultimately, Mendicino stumbled over his words as he made a vague claim about dangerous “rhetoric.”
- The Chinese Communist Party / Michael Chong lie
Mendicino is one of the many Liberal MPs who claimed to be unaware of reports that the Chinese Communist Party was targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong and harassing Chong’s Hong Kong-based family.
However, CSIS stated they informed the Public Safety Office back in 2021 with an issues management note that is sent “when we see something of high importance.”
At the time, the public safety minister was Bill Blair, who said in June 2023 that he “didn’t see” the memo.
Mendicino, who was minister of immigration, said no cabinet minister received the memo.
- The Chinese Police Stations lie
In April 2023, Mendicino claimed that all clandestine Chinese police stations in Canada had been shut down.
The following month, two Montreal-area Chinese community organizations being investigated for allegedly housing Chinese government police stations claimed that they are maintaining normal operations and the RCMP hasn’t come after them.
