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Including one that was so ludicrous — that Harper was going to take over Canadian cities by having “soldiers with guns” occupy them — that the Liberals were forced to withdraw it before it officially aired, so widespread was the public’s mockery of it.

Needless to say, Harper did not take over Canadian cities by having soldiers with guns occupy them during his prime ministership from 2006 to 2015, nor did he outlaw same-sex marriages or ban abortions.

But reality never intrudes on the fevered Liberal mind as to what the Conservatives are plotting next.

For example in 1991, when then Liberal MP Sheila Copps, a future deputy prime minister of Canada, shamefully compared Reform party leader Preston Manning to David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Sound familiar?

In the Liberal mind, Conservative criticism of Canada’s refugee policies was racist, until the Liberals toughened the procedures after Conservatives had been demanding it for two years with regard to “irregular/illegal” border crossers.

Then it suddenly wasn’t racist, according to the Liberals.

Even when Scheer agrees with Trudeau — for example that “conversion therapy” which aims to “cure” people of homosexuality is repugnant — the Liberals say he is still suspect.

This because Scheer said when asked, sensibly, that he would wait and see what specific law the Liberals were proposing when they finally got around to doing it, given that they hadn’t done it during four years of majority government.