Thread by @Scribulatora

One of the reasons I'm so agitated by the response to the #FireGallant situation is that I'm currently engaged in what is best described as the "deprogramming" of a beloved niece who went to Alberta and fell into a @cherylgallant type rabbit hole.

The first week she just ranted and raved about Trudeau being a pedophile and communist agents taking over the Liberal party and the clear drive to turn Canada into a slave state. "You used to love Canada!" she screamed at me in frustration.

She's irrational and deeply frightened and claims the vaccine is simply a way to finish off what the virus started, turning us all into automotons.

She was a pretty normal teenager. More peace and love and hippie beads than the darkness she's in now.

And this happened not because she was listening to crazy friends, but because it was being endorsed and given sly winks from from official sources. Politicians. "News" sources. Because there was no official pushback.

So, @erinotoole, when you're deciding that this sort of person is okay to keep in your caucus, just remember that you have children who you seem to love, and that one of them could very well fall into the hole you're helping to dig.

And I do not wish this for you.

You must stand up here for the values you constantly tell us you have. You simply *must*.

For 🇨🇦. For the kids who are going to get lost in the crazy.