Justin Trudeau Raif Badawi and his sister Samar. In response to Canada's criticism, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador, and froze trade with Canada. Trudeau said that Canada will "continue to speak clearly and firmly on issues of human rights at home and abroad wherever we see the need." In September 2018, as the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar became ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, Canada has stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship. In October 2018, Trudeau condemned the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and promised
Justin Trudeau and avalanche victims. After the event, an unsigned editorial in the "Creston Valley Advance" (a local newspaper) accused Trudeau of having groped an unnamed female reporter while at the music festival. The piece stated Trudeau provided a "day-late" apology to the reporter, saying, "If I had known you were reporting for a national paper, I never would have been so forward." The editorial eventually resurfaced during his premiership, and in July 2018 he publicly said he didn't recall the incident. Several commentators described Trudeau's refusal to act on the allegation as hypocritical given his previous actions against others accused of