(Ottawa) The Liberals are plummeting in the polls and throwing down their gloves: in a new ad, they use against Pierre Poilievre a weapon that has served the Conservative leader so far: the excerpt in which the opposition leader confronts a journalist while he casually eating an apple in an orchard.
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In a montage of the video in question, which circulated on the Internet and was replayed in several right-wing international media outlets, Liberal Party strategists make an explicit connection between the rhetoric of Pierre Poilievre and that of Donald Trump in a montage.
The sequence begins with the journalist asking who the conservative leader had a tough exchange with.
“Why should Canadians vote for you when you know you don’t just have some kind of ideological bias to take inspiration from Donald Trump’s strategy manual…” he ventures before being interrupted.
“What are you talking about? Which side [du manuel] ? Which page ? Can you give me the page? Give me the page,” he asked the journalist, who, tired of fighting, had finally changed the angle of his question.
It took the Liberal Party a few days to do this, but they found their own answers.
He exposes them in video sequences in which we alternately see Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump making almost identical or very similar remarks on a range of topics, be it “fake news,” woke ideology or even support for the trucker convoy .
The ad, which lasts about a minute, ends with a clip in which Pierre Poilievre accuses a parliamentary correspondent of being a “liberal heckler” during a press conference in the foyer of the House of Representatives.
“Dangerous for democracy”
Minister Marc Miller does not dislike the advertising strategy at all. “I think people need to see him for who he is […] I think it is very, very dangerous for the state of democracy,” he argued at a press conference on Tuesday.
“I don’t think it’s about being negative all the time, it’s about clearly showing Canadians who this person really is in a way that we haven’t used recently and not being fooled by them let it go,” he also said.