Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said it “would be just wrong for me to comment” on a Parliament Hill protest celebrating the October 7 killing and kidnapping of Jews in Israel including eight Canadians. A police investigation of the demonstration is underway.

Minister Freeland, speaking with reporters, declined to discuss the protest. Freeland hours later posted a Twitter message stating: “Having seen video from this weekend I can only express shock and disgust.”

A group Canadians for Palestine in a Saturday protest paraded past Parliament chanting, “Long live October 7th, long live the resistance, long live the intifada, long live every form of resistance.” Participants were masked. One speaker told marchers, “When I say ‘from the river to the sea,’ you reply with ‘Palestine is almost free,’ because our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free.”