Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went on the offensive on Thursday against Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, but Poilievre fought back.
As Pierre Poilievre stood up to ask questions about the increasing cost of a Thanksgiving dinner, Trudeau began asking questions about a Global News story that said Poilievre had been using a misogynist hidden hashtag on his popular YouTube videos.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“He funded a vicious anti-Semite to spread hatred online with taxpayers’ dollars. He repeatedly, in fact, so many times he can’t even keep track, dressed up in racist costumes for which he has not ever come fully to account. And he drove many women of his own caucus, out of the party and out of Parliament all together with his mistreatment of them,” Poilievre said.
With his wife standing by his side or introducing him at events, with his daughter in his arms, that’s a tough claim to make. The most likely scenario here is that some young staffer working on Poilievre’s team several years ago thought they were being smart using this hashtag and it’s been copied and pasted ever since.Article content
The difference this time is, rather than play by the Liberal narrative, Poilievre turned the tables on Trudeau and aggressively took him to task on his own record.
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