Unfortunately, we live in a backward country. Michael Cooper was attacked by media, by Liberals and then demonized by members of his own party for telling the truth. Suri was wrong for broadly calling all conservatives extremists. He was wrong for linking conservative commentators to extremist violence just because lone gunmen may have read their blogs and listened to their points of view. But, to be fair, this type of one-sided bias is considered normal in Canada and in most of America's mainstream media. Maybe Faisal Khan Suri was just trumpeting a bunch of talking points he knew Liberals wanted to hear. It is, after all, an election year.

The facts prove that the Christchurch shooter hated conservatives almost as much as he hated Muslims. The facts also prove that mainstream media stayed almost universally silent on the political ideology of the man who attempted to assassinate Republicans, but only ended up seriously wounding a Republican senator. In that case, the gunman was a hardcore Bernie bro who hated conservatives. In other cases, some gunmen were, in fact, tightly wrapped up in various kinds of alt-right ideology. However, Suri and mainstream media have failed to mention that the “alt-right” is an ideology that has persistently targeted and attacked mainstream conservatism—including conservatives like Ben Shapiro, who often earns the alt-right's ire for being Jewish.

The alt-right and conservatism are not the same, despite liberal media constantly trying to paint the two with the same brush for political reasons. In front of the Justice Committee, Suri did what liberal media has been attempting to do since Donald Trump won the presidency. For trying to shut down this typical, run-of-the-mill Liberal lie, Michael Cooper was reprimanded and demonized by his fellow, so-called conservatives.

I get it, this is Canada and it's an election year. But, sometimes, Conservatives need to put up a fight. Rather than remove Cooper from the committee, Andrew Scheer could have done what Justin Trudeau would have done and defended one of his own. Justin Trudeau has been shamelessly defending his cabinet and party members in the face of the most egregious ethics violations and corruption scandals this country has ever seen. Defending Cooper and helping to reinforce the fact that conservatism cannot be linked to the alt-right or radical extremist violence would have been a better move—and it would have been nothing compared to the hoops Trudeau has been jumping through to defend his own party from allegations of actual, serious wrong-doing.

There's something wrong with a country and a system that heavily falls to one side on issues like this. The hypocrisy and contradictions are so thick and obvious, you'd need a chainsaw to cut through them. Yet, here we are, letting it all go for the sake of winning an election the CBC and Liberal journalists won't let us win anyway. When push comes to shove, all this SNC-Lavalin corruption will be purposefully forgotten and swept under the rug, while incidents of Conservatives saying the wrong thing will become headline news. All while Conservatives whimper with their tails between their legs.

That's how the Liberals will win another majority.

If Andrew Scheer has even one noble bone in his body, he'll start fighting the good fight in times like this. In this case, Scheer chose to enable Liberal lies rather than tear them down. Tearing down Liberal lies was exactly what Michael Cooper was trying to do. At times like this, we don't want to see our so-called leaders tearing us down for speaking the truth. If this continues, the rest of us will be sitting here and playing our fiddles while the Conservative Party burns.

Keep it up, Andrew, and you'll be trying to win this election by yourself.