Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre knows exactly what he’s doing when he tells Canadians that former prime minister Justin Trudeau should have been jailed for past ethics violations.

It’s not a slip of the tongue or an off-the-cuff remark made in the heat of an interview. It’s a calculated piece of political theatre imported straight from the playbook of U.S. President Donald Trump. And it’s as dishonest as it is corrosive to Canada’s political culture.

In a recent interview, Poilievre claimed Trudeau would have faced criminal charges “if the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him.”

The Conservative leader was referring to the former prime minister’s breaches of ethics rules — including his 2016 family vacation to the Aga Khan’s private island and the SNC-Lavalin affa

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