“Liberal operatives planted ‘stop the steal’ buttons at conservative conference” reports the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). By “buttons” they mean what we in the UK call “badges”.
Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week’s Canada Strong and Free Networking (CSFN) Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party.
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Some attendees noticed buttons appearing at the event.
One said “stop the steal” — an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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The buttons were scattered in the event space in a way to give the impression that they were made and left by people attending the conference.
In fact, the idea came from the Liberal war room.
On Friday night, in two Ottawa bars, campaign workers shared how the party was behind this move — two Liberal Party staffers attended the conference intended for conservatives and placed these buttons in areas where attendees would find them.
At the pub D’Arcy McGee’s near Parliament Hill, a number of Liberal war room staffers met for drinks on the far side of the bar. This journalist joined one of them for a quick conversation, but heard another staffer, who had previously identified himself as being involved in opposition research, describing how he and a colleague planted the buttons.
The staffer knew he was sitting next to a journalist. When confronted, the staffer at first confirmed what he’d done. But he then denied saying anything when told that CBC News would be reporting on the operation.
To be fair, the staffer’s confident assumption that any Canadian journalist listening would prefer to share in the laughter of the in-group at putting one over the Conservatives rather than report the deception to the public was reasonable given past form. Kudos to Kate McKenna of CBC News for proving him wrong.
The Liberal Party said Sunday evening that some campaigners “regrettably got carried away” with the use of buttons “poking fun” at reports of Conservative infighting.
Liberal spokesperson Kevin Lemkay said the party has conducted a review of the matter and that leader Mark Carney had made it clear “this does not fit his commitment to serious and positive discourse.”
So the culprits have been fired, then? No. Just reassigned.
Ms McKenna’s report finishes with a Conservative spokesperson saying, “One wonders what other dirty tricks the Liberals are behind”. That was my first thought too. Remember those swastikas and confederate flags seen at Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ that Justin Trudeau was so outraged about? While I have no doubt that there were genuine extremists and nutters among the truckers of the Freedom Convoy, as there are in any large political movement, it is perfectly reasonable to wonder whether the Liberal Party was playing the same sort of tricks in 2022 as it was in 2025. A Liberal Party staffer happily boasting in public about having planted fake political emblems to discredit opponents of his party suggests that it is an accepted practice in his subculture.
If the Canadian “Liberals” (who are not liberal at all – they believe in censorship and collective control of every aspect of life) win the election, that will be it for Canada – Mark Carney, the “Central Banker of no-fixed-abode” as Mark Steyn, correctly, calls him, will-see-to-that.
Most Western nations have been in decline since at least the 1960s – but the decline of Canada under the despicable Trudeaus, senior and junior, has been worse than most other Western nations – perhaps because Canada started at such a high level (60 plus years ago Canada was a truly wonderful place to live) and so had further to fall – the decline started with “small” things, such as the change of the flag in 1965 (hardened veterans of World War II wept to see the Red Ensign pulled down – but “modern” folk just laughed at them) – but moved on to everything, even the biological population of Canada is being replaced by people who do not share Canadian culture and history – that is no longer a “paranoid conspiracy theory” it is becoming a brutal reality, and Prime Minister Trudeau, junior, reveled in it – there was no Canadian culture, he declared, and Canadian history was just a series of crimes by evil white men. And the education system and the (bought and paid for) media – cheered on the destruction of Canada, the destruction of the Canadian people.
In a couple weeks we will see if there is any hope for Canada – it really is that serious.
It was reasonable for the Lib gov workers to expect more help from the CBC given that the Canadian government gives about $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money to the CBC every year as a subsidy for keeping their noses firmly up the gov’s . . . well, you know.
I expect that Ms. McKenna will find new employment sometime this coming year.
I have understood for some time that Canada is in a dire political state (thanks mainly to the admirable Small Dead Animals, which is on the blogroll), and feel it unlikely that any reversal will come some since every organ of the state is involved.
Yes bobby b – the Canadian media, whether government owned or corporate, is bought-and-paid-for.
With the exception of Rebel News, True North and a few independent journalists, the Canadian media are working for the destruction of their nation – as is the education system.
The situation really is that serious – and not just in Canada.