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Not mentioned was the cringe-inducing slither into calling Trudeau a racist for half his adult life, a blatantly untrue statement that so turned my stomach there is nothing Poilievre could do in my lifetime that would make me vote for a conservative. The $3 million makeover can never really cover up Poilievre's truly repulsive nature. The longer he campaigns the more we'll get to see his true self.

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I was waiting for the “Great Porn War” column. From now on we should call Evan the PMO whisperer. This week we saw Trudeau and the Liberals taking Evan’s advice of the past weeks to heart and start doing the things that may make a difference in their electoral future.

This week Trudeau did not take the bait. He focused on housing announcements across the country, had a great interview in Alberta and dismissed the personal insults as noise. And on top of that his media team showed a bit of “Dark Justin” with a great beer jab back at Poilievre.

Poilievre on the other hand looked small and pitiful. The personal insults made all the image softening efforts of the past months worthless, the digital porn id does not seem to be the winner that he may have thought it would be and the bathroom regulations will likely become a future liability (Mr. Poilievre how do you intend to enforce this? Are we going to check gender at each bathroom? Should we call police if there is a suspected trans person? How would this work?). And the latter was an answer to the Rebel agitator who now seems to get the first question.

As we likely still have 18 months to go, there is a lot of time for the Liberals to do more of what they did this week: “Mr. Poilievre may want to talk about porn IDs and make personal insults, we are focused on housing, healthcare, etc.” there is no guarantee that it will be enough, but at least they have listened to the PMO whisperer.

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