This is a special post-byelection edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN.

Increasingly, there’s a question we must ask erudite readers like you: is there anyone left, in the Jewish community—or even outside of it—who will voluntarily defend the Liberal Party of Canada without sounding like a complete lunatic?

(Your response to this leading question is genuinely invited at the email address at the bottom of this column.)

We have been forced to dig in for (at least) a long year of Justin Trudeau petulantly facing down his haters inside and outside his party—consequences be damned—while forcing his elected members to spout ever greater inanities in the name of defending the country from the monstrous intentions of Pierre Poilievre.

We are back in the House today to work responsibly for Canadians.

We are facing Pierre Poilievre and his irresponsible behaviour. He is a fraudster. He is a bully. And he is trying to hide his true agenda from Canadians.

We won’t let that happen. pic.twitter.com/yu3ADzTx5k

Considering that his spokespeople are now saying aloud that Poilievre is “a fraudster”, and implying not-so-loudly that he is some sort of Russian asset because he (much like the PM) lacks a security clearance, the scary stories we will be hearing about the Conservative leader over the next few months will no doubt be limited only by the imaginations of those sequestered in the Trudeaubunker, waiting for the inevitable. While the Liberals make a game of tiptoeing up to the libel line and scurrying back, things that would have previously been thought impossible—such as the falling of Paul Martin’s old seat to the Bloc Quebecois—become just another warning sign to be dismissed.

A few corrections to this unhinged hate-filled lunatic.

* He’s from Odessa. Odessa is in Ukraine.
* He was an uncredentialed engineer who owned a business and worked tirelessly for a better life for his family in this country.........

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