Written By Wyatt Claypool, Posted on August 25, 2021
Liberal Finance Minister Chyristia Freeland a couple of days ago was labeled by Twitter as having shared “Manipulated Media” after posting a heavily edited video in order to claim Conservative leader Erin O’Toole was in favour of moving towards private healthcare.
Although many Conservative voters would likely want O’Toole to actually do that, the video Freeland posted was a complete lie in order to fearmonger about healthcare being taken away, despite private systems having far better access than public systems.
Here's the side by side deconstruction of Canada's Deputy Prime Minister's (Chrystia Freeland) fraudulent tweet. pic.twitter.com/RLR48hYalE
— not inklessPW 💎 (@inklessPW) August 23, 2021
In response to this and being asked questions about Twitter flagging Freeland’s video, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to deny and double-down on the lies that his Finance Minister was trying to push on social media.
Reporter: How do you respond to Twitter flagging your doctored and manipulated video that clearly misrepresents O’Toole’s position on health care?
Trudeau: Our doctored and manipulated video clearly speaks for itself pic.twitter.com/Avs2MSCUsB
— 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙪𝙢𝙚 (@BryanPassifiume) August 23, 2021
As time has gone on Trudeau has basically become a Twitter troll on this issue, making contextless response videos in his campaign bus claiming O’Toole has “confirmed” he backs private healthcare in Canada
Instead of pulling down Freeland’s manipulated video, Trudeau instead thinks the path forward is even more aggressively pushing the lie by simply asserting it to be true and hoping it catches on through sharing from his fans on Twitter and Facebook as if he thinks this election was just some celebrity feud.
After days of avoiding it, Erin O'Toole confirmed he wants to bring private for-profit health care to Canada. pic.twitter.com/ckuSzTJ7HO
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 24, 2021
It indicates the sort of desperation the Liberals are in overall. In many polls now the Liberals are only slightly ahead or even trailing the Conservatives, in spite of how bland O’Toole and his platform are.
Federal Polling:
CPC: 32% (-2)
LPC: 31% (-2)
NDP: 21% (+5)
BQ: 6% (-2)
PPC: 6% (+4)
GPC: 4% (-3)EKOS / August 24, 2021 / n=1233 / MOE 2.8% / IVR
(% Change With 2019 Federal Election)
Check out all Federal polling on @338Canada at: https://t.co/7yXX9RtvEx pic.twitter.com/IjUXsZHFFK
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) August 25, 2021
It likely isn’t that the Conservatives, the NDP, and the PPC have become suddenly popular over the past 10 days, and more so that Liberal voters are checking out with the bad excuses Trudeau has for the election, and ridiculous statements like “I don’t think about monetary policy.”
"I don't think about monetary policy." @JustinTrudeau #elxn44 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/ENWOwxg4W6
— Pundit Class (@punditclass) August 18, 2021
Unless Justin Trudeau mounts a major comeback quickly it looks like his chances at getting the majority government he selfishly seeks have all but faded away, and he may have even handed the Conservative Party and Erin O’Toole their own minority government.
Wyatt is a student at Mount Royal University, where he is the president of its Campus Conservative club. In his writing, he focuses on covering provincial and federal politics, firearms regulation, and the energy sector. Wyatt has also previously written for The Post Millennial.
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