It’s not clear to me whether the mask slipped and Pierre Poilievre misspoke, or whether he genuinely believes there is a road to victory by parroting Donald Trump’s politics of grievance.

On the Northern Perspective podcast, the Conservative leader called the RCMP’s leadership “despicable” for what he called a cover-up of Liberal misadventures. “Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have involved jail time,” he said, specifically referring to the former prime minister’s vacation on the Aga Khan’s island in 2016 and the efforts to influence then attorney general Jody Wilson Raybould in the SNC Lavalin affair in 2018.

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“If the RCMP had been doing its job and not covering up for him (for taking a free vacation), he’d have been criminally charged,” he said.

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