Trumpism comes to Canada, say what?

 Candice Bergen’s nod to Trump is a sign of Canada’s descent?

Prior to becoming interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MP Candice Bergen was among the more vocal members of caucus to push former leader Erin O’Toole into an explicit embrace of the so-called freedom convoy that’s now occupying Ottawa.

CTV quoted Bergen echoing, almost verbatim, former U.S. president Donald Trump’s description of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., which ended violently, as having “good people on both sides.”

The problem is that in both cases, this is untrue. There aren’t two sides or shades of grey when a protest is associated with symbols of white supremacy, the desecration of national monuments, the staging of a mock Indigenous drum circle and accounts of verbal intimidation and abuse of regular citizens.

There are also no shades of grey when one side embraces public health to protect the most vulnerable and the other side, through their own actions, endangers public health by flouting public health regulations and spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

Far-right authoritarian populism of the type associated with events like Charlottesville and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has admirers in Canada. Plainly. Some of the truckers fly Trump flags and Bergen has been photographed wearing a MAGA hat. Canada is not exactly America’s moderate little cousin to the north.


Trump-admiring Conservatives

Now that the Conservatives have traded O'Toole for Bergen and firebrand Pierre Poilievre is waiting in the wings, American-style, Trump-admiring Conservatives are poised to take over the Official Opposition here in Canada. Canadians should be alarmed.

More on this story:

https://theconversation.com/candice-bergens-nod-to-trump-is-a-sign-of-canadas-descent-but-the-charter-may-save-us-176785

The Candice Bergen of this story is NOT this Candice Bergen:


In case there is any confusion.






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