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Jamie Sarkonak: Matt Jeneroux is trolling you

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After announcing months ago he’d be exiting politics last fall to focus “entirely” on his family — who live in Victoria — ex-Conservative Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux flew to the airport just south of his riding on Wednesday to announce his new allegiance to the Liberals.

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Jeneroux says that Mark Carney’s World Economic Forum address in Davos, Switzerland, inspired him to switch teams; after hearing it, “it felt disingenuine and quite simply wrong to be sitting on the sidelines anymore.”

Jamie Sarkonak: Matt Jeneroux is trolling you Back to video

Don’t get mad; he’s trolling you. The whole point is to rub it in your face in the most cortisol-spiking manner possible. If you can forget the partisan sting for a second, it’s funny, the equivalent of a Liberal-to-Conservative crosser claiming to have been motivated by Pierre Poilievre’s podcast........

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