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Speaking as the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau called Conservatives racists.

That is the sunny way he will take us in to the next election.

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As the Huffington Post reports, Trudeau encouraged Muslims to engage with the Conservative Party, “So that never again would any mainstream party in Canada think it’s a good idea to stoke fears and divisions against Muslims or any other group of Canadians.”

Deputy Conservative leader Lisa Raitt also spoke at the Friday event, the Canadian-Muslim Vote’s Eid dinner, a gathering of about 1,500 politically engaged Muslims.

OnNEWSTALK1010 radio Raitt told me, “It was so shocking in the moment, I did one of those things where you go he couldn’t have said what I just thought he said because how could a Prime Minister invoke the office of the Prime Minister and then call the Conservative Party of Canada a bunch of racists?

“He knows for a fact that is simply not the case. If you look at our candidates in the GTA, our volunteers, our donors you see that all communities are coming to the Conservative Party,” she said.

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It was supposed to have been a non-partisan event, and it turned in to a Liberal campaign event.

“We are told very clearly not to be partisan,” Raitt said.

“It is one of those places where you are supposed to have a discussion about the importance of voting.”

I asked whether it was true, as I had been told, that Trudeau was attacking all conservatives.

“That was clearly the message,” Raitt said.

“It was a moral condemnation of the entire conservative movement. We’ve seen this before from pundits, we have seen it on Twitter. But the Prime Minister using his voice as the most important politician, the one who make the decisions in Canada, especially in a majority of government, has labelled the 45% of Canadians who identify themselves as conservatives that they are all a bunch of racists.”