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The Liberal Party of Canada on Monday issued a statement denying that leader Justin Trudeau ever had drinks with Faith Goldy, a former journalist and far-right activist whose politically toxic image has dominated the tit-for-tat historical scandal mongering of the election’s early days.

Just a few days before, Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey hurried from a CBC reporter and her driver sped out of a parking lot to avoid answering questions about her professed friendship with Goldy, who was famously fired from Rebel Media for appearing on a white nationalist podcast during the 2017 Charlottesville riots.

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It was the Liberals who promoted evidence of McCaffrey’s association, when candidate Maryam Monsef released a video McCaffrey posted with Goldy in 2013.

Much of the political chatter Monday was already preoccupied with the question of how much air time ought to be given to this one scandalous figure that everyone always seems to talk about. She was already the subject of Liberal messaging critical of Scheer for appearing this summer at the final rally in Ottawa for United We Roll, a cross-country protest convoy, at which Goldy also appeared.