Pierre Poilievre calls Justin Trudeau and his father ‘Marxists’ in exchange with concerned Canadian
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The Conservative Party leader was campaigning door to door for Jamil Jivani while explaining to a woman the ideology that has influenced the Trudeaus.
(LifeSiteNews) – Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his father Pierre Elliot Trudeau “Marxists” when asked by an Ontario resident what could be done to help prevent Canada from going “down” due to the PM’s Liberal policies.
Poilievre made the comments to a house owner named “Peggy” while knocking on doors with Conservative Party candidate Jamil Jivani, who is hoping to win an upcoming Durham, Ontario byelection of which the date has not been set.
In the now-viral video, posted to social media last week, “Peggy” can be heard saying to Poilievre, as he comes up to her door, that Trudeau’s “dad” started “a long time ago,” “putting this country down,” adding that she is worried his son is going to “put the nail in the coffin.”
In response, Poilievre replied, “Not if we can help it.”
“They’re both Marxists,” he added.
The viral video drew an immediate backlash late last week from Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen, who posted a link to the video with the following comment.
“Say what you will about our political leaders, but to refer to *any* Canadian Prime Minister as a Marxist not only shows a massive misunderstanding of the term but indeed is an insult to all those who have been subject to the political ideology,” Gerretsen wrote.
However, when it comes to the Trudeaus, they are both on record for giving praise to communist nations such as China and Cuba, whose political systems today are modeled after the ideas of Karl Marx, author of the “Communist Manifesto” and “Das Kapital.”
For example, in 2013, before he was PM, Trudeau praised China’s “basic dictatorship,” which sparked outrage from many Canadians, including those of Chinese descent.