https://thehub.ca/2022-08-09/is-ther...ves-in-canada/
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And secondly, it is very alienating to a lot of people who see dog whistles, who see American stuff in there, who saw various elements like Trump flags, this kind of thing—yes they were limited in the protests, but still, the fact that they were associated with it makes people uncomfortable in the centre-right and Blue Liberal spaces.
So the problem with that is you will attract some voters, no question, on the side of the further Right or, you know, the populist vein, but you will alienate others in the centre-right where there’s a lot of opportunities for us to grow. So that’s my issue with populism: the way it’s playing out. Populism itself is not so much the problem as the way that it’s being used in the campaign and both the rhetoric and the substance of it to attract people.
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I actually blame this podcast between two extremely well known federal conservatives on August 9, 2022 (5 weeks before Trudeau made the comment) for the dog whistle crisis that we now see playing out on CP. It was the Conservatives that first accused PP of dog-whistle politics and trying to court the far-right. Then he continued to do it and now is being accused of doing it.