Canadian Conservatives Reckon With Fallout From Capitol Hill Insurrection
[quote]OTTAWA — Canada’s Liberals wasted no time after the Capitol Hill riot trying to tar the Conservatives with the brush of Trumpism.
The governing party dug up Parler accounts supposedly belonging to Conservative members of Parliament, reminded everyone of Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s “Take Back Canada” slogan, and passed around photos of deputy leader Candice Bergen wearing a MAGA hat.
Trump has never been popular in Canada. One pre-election poll showed 84 percent support for President-elect Joe Biden north of the border, with a high of 32 percent support for Trump in Alberta — Canada’s most conservative province. And so the Conservatives responded swiftly after rioters stormed the halls of Congress, with the party's foreign affairs critic releasing an unequivocal statement condemning “the violence of an unruly mob incited by outgoing President Trump” — a full day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did the same.[/quote]
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/18/canadian-conservatives-capitol-hill-trump-459819
The governing party dug up Parler accounts supposedly belonging to Conservative members of Parliament, reminded everyone of Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s “Take Back Canada” slogan, and passed around photos of deputy leader Candice Bergen wearing a MAGA hat.
Trump has never been popular in Canada. One pre-election poll showed 84 percent support for President-elect Joe Biden north of the border, with a high of 32 percent support for Trump in Alberta — Canada’s most conservative province. And so the Conservatives responded swiftly after rioters stormed the halls of Congress, with the party's foreign affairs critic releasing an unequivocal statement condemning “the violence of an unruly mob incited by outgoing President Trump” — a full day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did the same.[/quote]
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/18/canadian-conservatives-capitol-hill-trump-459819
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