OTTAWA — A top aide to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper has lashed out at Pierre Poilievre over his leadership of the Conservative party and his recent comments attacking the RCMP's treatment of Justin Trudeau.

In a recent interview with a YouTube channel called Northern Perspective, Poilievre called the leadership of the RCMP "despicable" and said many of former prime minister Trudeau's scandals "should have involved jail time."

Writing an oped in the Toronto Star, Dimitri Soudas said Poilievre's recent statements demonstrated "recklessness" and "a leadership approach that remains rooted in grievance rather than governance."

"In a rule-of-law democracy, no opposition leader should ever call for a prime minister or any political rival to be jailed," he wrote. "It underm

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