Liberal MP 'unhinged' for linking Poilievre and Winnipeg mass ...
Lantsman referred to a previous instance when Liberal Ken Hardie said Nazi Josef Goebbels would be proud of Conservative MPs, calling Hardie 'unhinged then' and 'unhinged now'
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Published Nov 27, 2023 • 1 minute read
SURREY, B.C. — Federal Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman is calling a Metro Vancouver MP “unhinged” for a social media post that questioned if there was a connection between Pierre Poilievre and a weekend shooting in Manitoba that killed four people.
Liberal Ken Hardie, who represents the B.C. riding of Fleetwood-Port Kells, posted on Monday that the shooting that left four dead in Winnipeg was “beyond troubling” and asked if it was connected to a “burn everything down” attitude creeping in from the United States.
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His post on X, formerly known as Twitter, then referred to Conservative Leader Poilievre, asking if he was the “creep” on the Canadian side.
Lantsman responded by referring to a previous instance when Hardie said Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels would be proud of Conservative MPs, calling Hardie “unhinged then” and “unhinged now.”
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Beyond troubling to see another mass shooting in Canada, now in Winnipeg. And we've lost so many police officers. Might it be the anti-social 'burn everything down' far-right attitude we're seeing creeping in from the US? And the 'creep' on the Canadian side? Pierre Poilievre?
— Ken Hardie (@KenHardie) November 27, 2023Conservative spokesman Sebastian Skamski said in a statement it was “appalling” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had “failed to denounce this shameful message” from Hardie.
Hardie did not immediately respond to requests for comment on his post.
No arrests have been made in the shootings, whose victims included two First Nations sisters.
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