The Conservative leader is facing questions after stopping to cheer on an anti-carbon tax convoy camp near the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where he bluntly accused the prime minister of lying about “everything.”

In video filmed by the protesters, who have been living at the site for three weeks, Poilievre tells the group to “keep it up” and calls their protest “a good, old-fashioned Canadian tax revolt.”

“Everyone hates the tax because everyone’s been screwed over,” Poilievre is heard saying in the video, which shows protesters with “Axe the tax” and "F–k Trudeau " signs and flags. A car with ‘Make Canada Great Again’ scrawled on the rear window is seen parked at the site.

“People believed his lies. Everything he said was bullshit, from top to bottom.”

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    Make Canada Great Again

    Unlike Justin Trudeau, we’re not paying attention to what some American is saying

    Hmm…

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    It must be nice as a politician to have such dumb and easily manipulated people interested in voting for you

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    Interesting.

    MPs have immunity from slander lawsuits when in the House of Commons, but last I checked the NS/NB border was nowhere near Parliament Hill.

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    We’ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends.

    What a fucking spineless opportunistic weasel. He knows–he knows–this kind of rhetoric gets us American-style stochastic terror next, and then it’s a very small hop to Beer Hall Putsches and Reichstag fires. But he’s going to ride this particular tiger anyway, because he figures there’s a lot of people the mob will come for before they come for him.

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    Squinty McProudBoy sucking up to his racist, misogynistic, white supremacist, fascist, nazi “base”. If you want trump policies in Canada, Bitcoin Milhouse is your boy. Actually he is harper’s current puppet since until harper is dead, he is the Canadian conservative party. #SquintyMcProudBoy #trumpLite #BitcoinMilhouse #Canada #Canpoli

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Conservative leader is facing questions after stopping to cheer on an anti-carbon tax convoy camp near the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where he bluntly accused the prime minister of lying about “everything.”

    In another video from his visit, Poilievre, who has been beating Trudeau’s Liberals in the polls since last summer, is seen leaving a RV with a drawing of the black and white Diagolon flag on the door.

    According to RCMP documents tabled at the Emergencies Act inquiry last year, the national police force believes Diagolon is a militia-like network whose supporters subscribe to an “accelerationist” ideology — the idea that a civil war or the collapse of western governments is inevitable and ought to be sped up.

    Jones, a notorious broadcaster who has been ordered to pay more than a billion dollars in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook victims after claiming the school shooting was a hoax, has called Poilievre the “real deal” and recently reiterated his support.

    “As a vocal opponent of Justin Trudeau’s punishing carbon tax which has driven up the cost of groceries, gas, and heating, he made a brief, impromptu stop,” he said.

    David Coletto, founder and CEO of polling firm Abacus Data, said part of Poilievre’s strategy in visiting the protest encampment might have been to motivate members of his base who are drawn by Maxime Bernier’s populist People’s Party of Canada — which took four per cent of the vote in the last election.


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