In a brazen display of political vendetta, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ignoring U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal pardon for January 6 protesters, allowing Canada’s border agency to hold a free man hostage in a detention cell.

At the center of this controversy is Antony Vo, a 32-year-old from Indiana who participated in the Capitol protests and later sought refuge in Canada.

Vo fled the U.S. to avoid serving a nine-month sentence for his actions on January 6, only to be detained by Canadian authorities.

Despite his lawyer’s assertion that Trump’s presidential pardon covers Vo’s crimes, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) maintains that no such clemency applies to him.

Lawyer Robert Tibbo has told the media that his client has been pardoned “100 percent.”

“It falls under Part B of the president’s proclamation, and even though his name is not there, he’s pardoned because it says expressly any person who was charged and/or convicted of any criminal offense at or near the Capitol,” Tibbo explained.

Yet, the CBSA insists that Vo is not listed among those pardoned, leaving him languishing in an immigration detention center in Surrey, B.C., after his arrest in Whistler.

“Vo was not on the list of individuals pardoned by the U.S. President,” a CBSA letter to the Immigration and Refugee Board states.

“This has been verified with U.S. government officials.”

As reported by The Counter Signal, documents suggest that Trudeau has used January 6 protesters as political pawns, even attempting to link them to Canada’s peaceful Freedom Convoy movement.

Vo has applied for asylum, but the CBSA is seeking to have him declared inadmissible, citing other convictions issued against him by U.S. authorities after he fled to Canada.

The CBSA argues that Canadian law supersedes any U.S. legal maneuvers, including Trump’s sweeping pardon.