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It’s always good to know what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks of conservatives in Canada and around the world, as he helpfully elaborated on following his cabinet shuffle on Wednesday.

Asked, according to CBC’s Power & Politics, “whether he fears a growing conservative movement at the provincial level affecting his agenda”, Trudeau responded with an attack against conservatives worldwide.

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“I think one of the things that we’ve seen, uh, in terms of, of, uh, what conservatives have been saying, is that, uh, they are playing not just here in Canada, but around the world, uh, a very dangerous game around the politics of fear, the politics of division, of pitting Canadians against each other, and, uh, raising the kinds of anxieties that, uh, quite frankly, don’t help solve problems but actually hinder them.

“I’m reminded of the very first conversation I had with Bill Blair, years ago when I was asking him to think about running for the Liberal Party of Canada. Um, one of the things he said stuck with me and certainly echoes, uh, in my mind today as we give him these new responsibilities. He said the number one enemy of public security, is fear.