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The Liberal Party of Canada has again denied its leader Justin Trudeau ever had drinks with the controversial Faith Goldy, after another woman told the National Post she was with them at the Château Laurier in Ottawa one festive night in the winter of 2012.

Before Trudeau’s brownface scandal, Goldy’s connection to both the Liberal and Conservative campaigns was becoming an improbable focal point of political smearing, as both parties tried to capitalize on her toxic image as a newly prominent figure of the far right.

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The Liberals first drew attention to a video Goldy made about a proposed television show with Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey. They also raised Conservative campaign manager Hamish Marshall’s past role as a director of Rebel Media, where Goldy was an on-screen personality before being fired for appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast.

On Friday, as Trudeau campaigned on gun control in Toronto, his closest advisor Gerald Butts tweeted a video of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer talking to a shooting sports industry event, saying Scheer “couldn’t wait to win the (Conservative) leadership and ‘go shoot something’ with Faith Goldy.”