Pierre Poilievre called the leadership of the RCMP despicable and accused them of covering up for Justin Trudeau.
Now we have progressives who have spent much of the last decade denigrating police as tools of oppression, of being systematically racist, and the types of groups that should be defunded suddenly clutching their pearls in horror.
There are political questions to ask about the wisdom of Poilievre’s comments and then there is a simpler question – are his comments true or valid.
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Politically, this doesn’t help Poilievre, and the media pile-on that we’ve seen already will continue. He will be accused of being unfit for office for daring to question such a treasured national institution. Had he called the RCMP complicit i