Flacking for Trudeau

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Nov 23

RE: Questions of Conservative judgement. Editorial The Hamilton Spectator 28 Nov 23.

Flacking for the Trudeau Liberals in media has become intense over the last few days, as the spectre of their hero losing the next election to Pierre Poilievre become more real. Belatedly, they’re trying to “define” Poilievre, which means they’re trying to smear him, making him unacceptable to the general public and even to polite society.

The consistent lines of attack are: his questioning about the potential terrorist attack on the Rainbow Bridge, his unchivalrous discourtesy to a female CP reporter, and most especially, the CPC vote against an update of an existing Free Trade treaty with Ukraine.

The CPC voted against the trade deal update because one provision mentioned a requirement for carbon taxes. Ukraine already has a carbon tax, and so does Canada; so why should this even be in a treaty update? What the provision does is lock Canada’s carbon tax into an international trade treaty, meaning that Poilievre, to repeal Canada’s carbon tax, will also have to abrogate all, or part, of an international treaty.  If the CPC had voted for the update, it would give Trudeau cause to crow about Poilievre having voted for a carbon tax. You won’t hear this explanation in the Trudeau flacking MSM.

The Rainbow Bridge business was thought so much to be a potential terrorist attack that the FBI were called in to investigate, who found it not to be. As for the MSM whining about Poilievre’s unchivalrousness towards a female CP reporter, who attempted a gotcha question, well, equal treatment works both ways.

The Left is known to coordinate its actions, but the degree of similarity of lines of attack against Poilievre in the MSM makes one wonder how deep the collusion goes.

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