Trudeau attack Poilievre but Conservative leader punches back

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On Thursday, Justin Trudeau tried to show the tables on Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre and began asking him questions.

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As Pierre Poilievre stood as much as ask questions concerning the growing value of a Thanksgiving dinner, Trudeau started asking questions on a World Information story that stated Poilievre had been utilizing a misogynist hidden hashtag on his standard YouTube movies.

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It didn’t go in addition to Trudeau had hoped, with Poilievre pushing again laborious in opposition to Trudeau.

“The Conservative Chief has been purposefully utilizing his movies to attraction to far proper misogynistic on-line. Anti-women, they’ve devastating actual life penalties. Mr. Speaker I name on the Conservative Chief to face on this home take duty and apologize,” Trudeau stated.

I’m unsure he was anticipating Poilievre’s response.

“I took duty and corrected as quickly because it turned identified to me,” Poilievre stated.

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The problem at hand was a hashtag #MGTOW which stands for males going their very own means. It’s tied to an anti-feminist, and admittedly anti-women, motion. Poilievre’s response was to denounce misogyny, saying he had the hashtag eliminated, after which flip the tables on Trudeau’s observe report with girls and even funding extremists.

“He funded a vicious anti-Semite to unfold hatred on-line with taxpayers’ {dollars}. He repeatedly, the truth is, so many occasions he can’t even maintain observe, dressed up in racist costumes for which he has not ever come totally to account. And he drove many ladies of his personal caucus, out of the celebration and out of Parliament all collectively along with his mistreatment of them,” Poilievre stated.

“We condemn all that habits. We condemn misogyny all the time and in all places, and we ask the Prime Minister to lastly do the identical.”

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Trudeau saved punching again at Poilievre earlier than getting hit again more durable by the Conservative Chief.

Poilievre shouldn’t be a misogynist

Let’s be sincere, this was an personal aim by Poilievre and his workforce – this hashtag ought to by no means have been there. That stated, a lot of the voting public has little understanding of the intricacies of posting YouTube movies on-line, they’ll simply need to know, is Poilievre somebody who doesn’t like girls?

Together with his spouse standing by his facet or introducing him at occasions, along with his daughter in his arms, that’s a troublesome declare to make. The most probably situation right here is that some younger staffer engaged on Poilievre’s workforce a number of years in the past thought they have been being good utilizing this hashtag and it’s been copied and pasted ever since.

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I reside and breathe the net world and I had no concept what this hashtag meant till this story broke.

The Liberals will use this for all it’s value, it’s clearly a narrative they planted – one thing all events do – and so they have been able to pounce on it. Along with having rehearsed strains for Query Interval, the Liberals despatched out a fundraising electronic mail a short while later to the lots of of 1000’s of Canadians on their electronic mail listing.

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Make no mistake, this might damage Poilievre with a key demographic that he must win within the subsequent election – girls.

The distinction this time is, reasonably than play by the Liberal narrative, Poilievre turned the tables on Trudeau and aggressively took him to activity on his personal report.

From firing Jody Wilson-Raybould, dropping Celina Caesar-Chavannes, elbowgate or the Kokanee Grope, Trudeau has his personal points. To not communicate of coverage issues like overseeing the persevering with issues that ladies face within the navy.

Poilievre threw that every one again in Trudeau’s face and stated he has nothing to be taught from the Liberal Chief. He was like Rocky taunting Clubber Lang with, “Ain’t so unhealthy,” however as a substitute of simply taking the photographs, Poilievre was hitting again.

The Liberals have a brand new Conservative Chief to take care of, I’m unsure they’ve found out what which means simply but.

blilley@postmedia.com