[troutman]

Ezra Levant organizes a carbon tax rally that turns really, really weird

http://theamericanenergynews.com/mar...s-really-weird

If you don’t like the media, make your own.

But I already said that who was behind the gathering of roughly 1,000 wasn’t nearly the weirdest thing going on at Levant’s “rally.” What was? Well, I counted five or six pretty weird things.

One, disagreement over the crowd count took a very strange turn on Twitter.

Two, the dudes with signs saying the Alberta carbon tax equals sodomy.

Three, Bernard the Roughneck’s speech.

Four, while federal Conservative Party leadership candidate Chris Alexander was at the microphone the crowd began chanting “lock her up,” referring to Premier Notley.

Five, the carbon tax equals sodomy signs weren’t the only awful placards at the rally. One sign read, “Don’t let gay activists in schools.” An anti-immigration leaflet calling for less immigration was passed out to the crowd.

How did Canadian politics become so debased?

Many of the actions described above are right out of the Trump/KellyAnne Conway/Breitbart playbook. Is Canada about to embrace the same post-truth, fake news politics as the United States, where “facts” no longer exist?

If Canada does, Ezra Levant may be the drum major at the head of the parade. And if you think things were weird at Saturday’s Rebel Media rally, just wait.