We pull back the curtain and what is in full view is by no means like the grand prize a lucky contestant can win on a game show.

It is a game. It is a show. But there is no prize.

It is just outright ugly.

First, let’s look at the buttons.

In Ottawa, conservative-minded activists attend a gathering.

At this gathering, buttons surface, planted at the event.

They look like Trump-style buttons and they are meant to be seen as buttons cooked up by and distributed by conservatives.

But they weren’t conservative buttons. They were Liberal buttons.

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They were intended to get Canadians to see how conservative types are on board with U.S. President Donald Trump, as their dear Liberal Leader Mark Carney has told all of us again and again and again and …

Over drinks in a pub, Liberal staffers brag about the dirty tricks operation and confirm the Liberal party is behind it. This is the Liberal party who would never stoop to such tactics. Just ask them.

Of course, as reported, the nastiness was orchestrated by the Carney Liberal war room.

No shocker for anyone paying attention.

Carney and his crew have run an election campaign elevating cynicism to an art form. Bad art.

His campaign is all about Trump and how only he, Mark Carney, can save us.

Trump is going to break Canada so he can own Canada.

Trump wants to annex Canada and make it part of the United States.

All the

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