Hold the liberals accountable for their odious Tru-Anon groupies: Selley

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In recent days, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have received very clear marching orders from the leader’s office regarding Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. The new line is: “he has something to hide.” Liberal House Leader Karina Gould posted a whole video about it last weekin addition to making the accusation in the House of Commons in recent days – as have MPs Kevin Lamoureux, Mark Gerretsen and the Prime Minister himself.

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If Poilievre didn’t have “something to hide,” the theory goes, he would certainly seek national security clearance so he could see the names of lawmakers involved in foreign interference in Canada’s elections.

Reasonable people may disagree about Poilievre’s approach to this issue. But there is a perfectly simple strategic explanation for this, which Poilievre himself has put forward: the more confidential information he knows and must keep confidential, the less freedom he will have to speak to and criticize (and insinuate) the government on this issue. . . (Former CSIS Director Richard Fadden recently suggested that Poilievre might choose to be informed only on matters concerning Conservatives, which seems to me a very reasonable course of action.)

As far as I’ve seen, no liberal has had the courage to make any suggestions What precisely the conservative leader might be hiding. But a quick Google search will show you what many crazy people think Poilievre is hiding: basically everything you can think of. The liberals clearly nod and wink at the crowd.

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Dean Blundell, a former radio DJ who now runs the online commentary site Crier Media, is perhaps the most high-profile member of TruAnon – a term created by CNN’s Jake Tapper to describe Justin Trudeau’s most rabid and unhinged defenders (a comparison to the famously crazy conspiracy theorists of QAnon). To be fair, Blundell seems less enamored with Trudeau than he is utterly consumed with hatred of Poilievre, but that is the foundation on which TruAnon rests. And Blundell nevertheless deals in all TruAnon styles.

He has questioned Poilievre’s parentage: “We know very little about Pierre’s upbringing – rumors about who his biological father is are more than rampant.” he wrote last year. One baseless theory is that he is actually the son of Calgary lawyer Gerald Chipeur, who personally represented both the Conservative Party of Canada and Stephen Harper. (The mechanics and reasoning behind this conspiracy theory completely escape me, I’m afraid.)

Harper heads the International Democratic Union, Blundell noted, “with members from India, China, Russia and Hungary. Their goal? To disrupt democracy in progressive countries in the name of Abrahamic/conservative nationalism.”

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The ne plus ultra TruAnon account belongs to someone who goes by the name Vicki Campbell on X (formerly Twitter). (Her tagline: “Mother, grandmother, wife. Proud Canadian liberal #WomenAgainstPoilievre. Move Canada forward. #IStandwithTrudeau.”)

“Vicki” is not a nice person at all. Her biggest hits include suggests a Muslim woman protesting gender ideological “indoctrination” by public schools is “sent home so she remembers why she came here in the first place”; advocates Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis “deported back to Jamaica, where she was born”; And describes Anaida Poilievre a ‘parasite on our immigration system’. (TruAnon is convinced the conservative leader’s wife has some nefarious connection to her upbringing in Venezuela.)

“He has no heart and he has no soul. He is an empty, miserable, disgusting human being. “Vicki” said about Poilievre.

You’ve probably noticed that Poilievre is constantly accused by the media and liberals of winking at despicable conspiracy theorists. Railing against the World Economic Forum had been an uncontroversial part of left-wing politics for decades, but when Poilievre set his sights on Davos, things suddenly became dangerous.

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A good example of that dichotomy ended up in The Walrus last month, in an article headlined “Welcome to the Poilievre Conspiracy Theory Vortex.”

“Look, I’m not a fan of the WEF,” wrote University of Alberta law professor Timothy Caulfield. “But (Poilievre) is very clearly tapping into a base that has embraced paranoid belief about a secret plot to control the world and take away our basic rights.”

That’s pretty much exactly what Naomi Klein has been advocating for years, without being accused of leading the country to ruin.

Then there is Diagolon. Poilievre has been very clear about his views on this sexist, racist, anti-Semitic and fanatically anti-Trudeau group of anti-lockdowners who gathered online during the pandemic. One of leader Jeremy MacKenzie’s biggest hits: encouraging his followers to rape Anaida Poilievre.

“These men are dirtbags,” Poilievre said in a statement. “To be honest, like most Canadians, I had never heard of Diagolon and these losers until about a month ago. They are all odious.”

MacKenzie and his compatriots also have nothing good to say about Poilievre. Why would they? Their views and desires are miles outside the Canadian mainstream.

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Yet the Conservative is leader is regularly accused of winking, if not outright pandering to Diagolon and other extremist groups. Five Liberal MPs, including Trudeau, accused him of this in a single day sitting of the House of Commons in April.

If it is fair for reporters to question Poilievre about ties to Diagolon, despite their mutual antipathy, then it is certainly fair for them to question Trudeau about the odious behavior of TruAnon, who worships the ground he treads and trembles at the sight of it. .

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