Dame Jacinda Ardern heckled on Canadian streets during her visit for Global Action Summit

Former PM Jacinda Ardern has been heckled on the street during her trip to Montreal for the Global Progress Action Summit.

A video is circulating on social media of former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern being heckled on the streets of Montreal, Canada.

Ardern is currently in Montreal for the Global Progress Action Summit, a gathering of left-leaning political figures both past and present.

The video comes from a right-wing journalistic outlet based in Canada, which approached her to discuss alleged “hypocritical behaviour”.

WATCH: I caught the far-left former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern on her way to the "Global Action Summit" here in Montreal.

She has no answer when confronted on her hypocritical behavior, carbon tax the plebs, jet set for the elites. https://t.co/kCPoXwVDxN pic.twitter.com/JwhmxYrb2f

— Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) September 16, 2023

“How much fossil fuel did you use coming here to speak about climate change?” the videographer can be heard questioning her.

Jacinda Ardern speaks before the World Health Organisation (Who) in Geneva earlier this year. Photo / Who

She refuses to respond, instead putting her head down to continue walking.

The person attempts to follow her, but security prevents them and asks them to “leave her alone” as she walks indoors.

An argument ensues regarding the man’s right to record Ardern and ask her questions.

Yesterday, she took the stage alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Regarding the progressive approach to rising global crises, Ardern remarked, “We can’t stand there next to a dumpster on fire and not acknowledge that it’s on fire behind us.”

Trudeau has posted a video to X (formerly known as Twitter) of the pair warmly greeting each other.

“Oh, so nice to see you,” Ardern says, giving Trudeau a hug. “How are you?”

“So well, so well,” Trudeau responds.

Since resigning from her role as Prime Minister on January 19, Ardern has been in relative obscurity.

At the beginning of April, she delivered a valedictory speech to Parliament which capped more than five years spent as the Prime Minister, marked by a series of tragedies in the mosque attacks, Whakaari/White Island eruption and Covid-19 pandemic - and Ardern’s globally respected responses to them.

At the end of April, Ardern revealed her new Harvard University post specialising in technology governance.

She made the announcement on her Instagram account, confirming she’d been invited to join Harvard University later this year.

In the post, Ardern explained she would take up the first tech governance leadership fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre and work with its research community.

In May, she reflected on her time as head of the country throughout the pandemic in a speech during the opening of the World Health Organisation’s 76th assembly in Geneva.