OTTAWA — The RCMP is reviewing a statement from a prominent far-right figure who says he was drunk when he joked during a live broadcast about sexually assaulting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s wife.
The comment provoked Poilievre’s strongest condemnation yet of a group called Diagolon and its controversial leader Jeremy MacKenzie, a 36-year-old Nova Scotia man whose online community has been linked to misinformation, antisemitism and racism.
I don’t approve of the threat to Poilievre’s wife.
That said when taken with last week’s effort to silence the Press Gallery reporter for what was nothing more than a lame joke I have begun to suspect that the CPC is telling its own perceived deplorables that they want nothing to do with them. A gentle purge if you will.
