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This all came after the Liberals pounced upon comments made by Conservative Senator Leo Housakos who was pressing Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to be more specific in her suggestion that Canada was somehow a cesspool of white supremacy that places us in grave danger.

Because Housakos was reluctant to believe that our streets have been overrun with violent white supremacists and that Canadians are somehow weak-willed enough to fall prey en masse to such an awful ideology, the Liberals are trying to shamelessly twist it into something it’s not. It’s pretty weak sauce.

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It’s interesting timing that they’re playing this cynical game, because the Liberals are now being denounced by refugee advocates for changes that make it more difficult to claim asylum if you’ve crossed into Canada illegally at places like Roxham Road.

Canadians should welcome these changes to the asylum rules. But it sure came at a cost. The Liberals dragged their feet on this file for years and whenever anyone wanted action on this unsustainable situation they called these people racist and other nasty names.

Are the Liberals racist now for clamping down on the border? Of course not.

This should be a lesson for them about how reckless it is to toss around these sorts of terms.