While Poilievre toured the camp, a picture was taken showing him walking past an RV door covered in graffiti-like images and slogans. On that door, there was a small, hand-drawn image of what appears to be a warning flag for scuba divers, only in black. That image is the substance of the “scandal.”
You can be forgiven for not understanding why this is scandalous. Most people wouldn’t. I didn’t know what the symbol allegedly represented until the CBC hysterically reported that it was the logo for a nefarious group named Diagolon.
Don’t know what or who Diagolon is?
That’s OK. Most people don’t.
Testimonies at the commission probing the government’s use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 said that it started as an online joke. Its founder, Jeremy MacKenzie, has faced arrest for assault and firearms-related offences. While some people try to claim this group presents a risk to national security, it doesn’t seem to have done anything aside from trolling the internet and putting its symbols out here and there. There has been no indication of an actual organization or efforts carried out by the group on the ground. It is an internet bogeyman that nobody with any sense takes seriously.
Citizens are getting tired of the media’s “gotcha” games. If anything, such a clearly unfair attack on Poilievre is garnering him sympathy.
During the Freedom Convoy protest, images of a Nazi flag surfaced and were used to smear the thousands in attendance, though the flag was never actually seen among the participants. Guilt by association was gleefully applied to the participants despite there being no evidence of it aside from the single flag.
The situation changes dramatically when it comes to the increasingly aggressive protests against Israel, however. While Jews have been targeted and intimidated, while bullets have hit Jewish schools, and while people have been openly celebrating the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, the powers that be are reticent, to say the least, when it comes to condemning the protests.
There is a gross double standard when it comes to holding politicians responsible for who they may be seen with. There are truly dangerous and hateful demonstrations on Canadian streets being dismissed while Poilievre being in proximity to a drawing is apparently worthy of national reporting.
Things will only get uglier as the date for the next federal election creeps closer. If anything needs to be condemned by the public, it’s the increasingly biased, divisive, and petty approach legacy media outlets and politicians are taking in Canadian politics.
