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Is there a body of voters in this country who were left in foam-flecked apoplexy by the new NAFTA deal signed by Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump last year — besides, perhaps, 13,000 dairy farmers?

Andrew Scheer seems to think so. He held an impromptu press conference on his campaign plane at 35,000 feet above the Prairies (and most of the real issues) early Sunday morning.

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Scheer said Trump had “run the table” on Trudeau, who capitulated while the American president “took it all”.

“What did we get in return? Where are the wins?,” he asked. “I would challenge anyone to tell me where we are better off.”

Granted, it may have been a tactic aimed at diverting the travelling media from asking about what appears to be the rather careless vetting of Conservative candidates. At least four have been in the news for leaving digital fingerprints of opinions judged to be unacceptable in these days of hyper-sensitivity to insensitivity.