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It was a video that went viral over the weekend. On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really got into it with a heckler at a rally in Quebec.

“I want to know when you are going to refund the $146 million we paid for your illegal immigrants,” an older woman shouts, in French, multiple times to Trudeau at an event in Sabrevois, Que.

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Trudeau’s response? “This intolerance towards immigrants has no room in Canada” and then “racism has no place here.”

That’s right. Dare to ask the PM a question about taxpayer finances and the current border crisis and he’ll call you names in public.

It’s hard to believe this is the same man who campaigned on “sunny ways.” But believe it. Because it’s not going away. In fact, expect these sorts of scenes to only ramp up between now and the 2019 election. And expect Trudeau to relish in them.

Over the weekend, the PM unofficially launched next year’s election campaign by announcing in his home riding of Papineau that, no surprise, he’d indeed be running for re-election.