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So as it turns out, it was the Conservatives, not the Liberals, who weren’t as advertised in the federal election.

In the days leading up to the Oct. 21 vote, Conservatives told us they were united behind Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who was ready to lead the country.

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But in the days following the election, they’ve been stabbing each other in the front, with many disingenuously complaining, in so many words, that they are “shocked, shocked” to discover Scheer is an unelectable social conservative.

They have as much credibility as Captain Louis Renault in the famous scene from Casablanca, where he tells the owner of Rick’s Cafe Americain, played by Humphrey Bogart, that he’s shutting down his restaurant because he’s, “shocked – shocked – to find that gambling is going on in here,” moments before his winnings are handed to him.

The Conservatives knew Scheer was a social conservative when they elected him on May 27, 2017 — that he personally opposed same-sex marriage and abortion, that he wouldn’t march in gay pride parades.