KINSELLA: Poilievre unfit for high public office

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When does an individual get disqualified from holding excessive public workplace? There are many methods.

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After they put on racist blackface many instances, for sure. After they grope a lady at a beer competition, after which — when caught — suggest she’s a liar: that, too.

After they impede justice to help a donor going through corruption prices — or to strain police to control the reality about what occurred in a bloodbath in a small Nova Scotia city. All that.

Additionally disqualifying: making a “hotline” to report “barbaric practices” dedicated by people who find themselves brown and Muslim. Saying that one’s faith will affect one’s selections as Prime Minister — when one’s faith holds the view that dinosaurs co-existed with people, and that abortion needs to be disallowed, even in circumstances of rape or incest.

Elsewhere, it’s disqualifying — or ought to have been — when a candidate for prime public workplace says, on tape, that he “grabs [women] by the pussy.”

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All of these issues — blackface, obstruction of justice, overt bigotry, opposing abortion in each case, bragging about sexual assault — needs to be disqualifying. Sadly, in most of these circumstances, voters didn’t care. Justin Trudeau was seen in blackface, thrice, and voters voted for him anyway. Donald Trump boasted about sexually assaulting girls, and nonetheless turned president.

And now, this week, we’ve Pierre Poilievre marching in Ottawa with James Topp.

On the floor, it doesn’t look like such an enormous deal for the Conservative management frontrunner to be lending his help to a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces like Topp. It doesn’t appear disqualifying, at first.

But when Poilievre knew (as he does) that Topp has lent his voice (as he has, actually) to a podcast that’s linked to a violent neo-Nazi group? Isn’t that disqualifying?

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Determine for your self.

Diagolon, the Canadian Anti-Hate Community has reported, is a bunch that favours making a homeland for the like-minded, stretching from Florida to Alaska, in a diagonal line (thus the title). Diagolon is anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and militant. It’s referred to as “accelerationist” — that means, it desires speed up a race conflict and anarchy.

In Canada, Diagolon’s important voice is one Jeremy MacKenzie, a former CAF member, like Topp. MacKenzie’s Diagolon credo is heard on “Raging Dissident,” and he’s thought of the group’s chief in Canada.

MacKenzie promotes the Nice Substitute Concept, which primarily asserts that there’s a secret conspiracy to switch whites with non-whites. He additionally promotes materials that served because the inspiration for the Oklahoma Metropolis bombing in April 1995, when a neo-Nazi slaughtered 168 males, girls and kids.

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And James Topp has appeared on his “Raging Dissident” present, of us, a number of instances. MacKenzie has promoted this on-line, too, apparently amused by the controversy: “James Topp returns to the Diagolon terror heart.”

There isn’t a proof, none, that Pierre Poilievre personally helps a neo-Nazi group like Diagolon. There isn’t a proof that he’s an accelerationist or something like that.

However he’s, as he frequently likes to remind us, working for Prime Minister. And he is identical man who has used a racist time period — “tar infants” – to assault political opponents. He has supported the bigoted “barbaric cultural practices” hotline. He has mentioned he prefers “Anglo-Saxon phrases,” no matter these are.

And, now, he has chosen to march on the Canada Day weekend with James Topp. Realizing full nicely about Topp’s involvement with an insane far-Proper group of haters.

That, Conservatives, is disqualifying — simply as a lot as blackface and obstruction of justice had been. That, alone, ought to inform you Poilievre is unfit for prime public workplace.

However you’ll seemingly vote for him anyway, the stench of racism however.

Identical to Liberals voted for the blackface man.

Who additionally had a racist stench.

— Kinsella is the creator of Internet of Hate, a nationwide bestseller about Canada’s white supremacist and neo-Nazi motion.