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The third person featured in the interview was former Italian PM Matteo Renzi. I bet they’re all quaking in their boots at the prospects of Trudeau now going on a CBC podcast to denounce them as racists. After all, they’re just echoing what Trudeau’s favourite person to obsess over, Stephen Harper, has been saying during his recent book tour.

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While we need to remain pro-immigration, Harper argues in Right Here, Right Now, “being pro-immigration should never mean sanctioning the erasure of our borders or ignoring the interests of our citizens.” The former PM urges politicians to listen earnestly to the grievances behind today’s populist movements – and Clinton and Blair now agree.

The notion that any legitimate concerns about illegal immigration amount to racially motivated attacks on all immigration is one of the most boneheaded and obviously false ideas that progressive politicians and their media allies have peddled in recent years.

They should be ashamed of themselves for this level of dishonesty that has seen them engage in vicious libel against their fellow countrymen. And after taking a moment to reflect on their ignorance they can take another to reflect on what Clinton and Harper are saying.

Canadians might be more welcoming of something like a global deal to efficiently manage the comings and goings of immigrants and refugees if they hadn’t repeatedly been misled and browbeaten about the issue, if they didn’t feel like it was all a set-up to take away their sovereignty.

But, no, the likes of Trudeau have overshot and now the division has set in. What was previously a relatively non-partisan issue is now beset with rancour.

It’s refreshing to see Clinton working to moderate her side. We should demand the same from Trudeau, and the 2019 election campaign would be the perfect occasion for the Liberals to show they’ve matured on the issue.