Leader of Diagolon claims to be 'waging war' on media
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Summary
Jeremy McKenzie says the recent attacks against the mainstream media are the result of them lying and misrepresenting people, and not because their journalists are women and people of colour. McKenzie was recently thrust into the centre of the Conservative Party's leadership race after the 35-year-old Canadian Armed Forces veteran shook hands with frontrunner Pierre Polyev during a meet and greet in Nova Scotia.
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Diagon leader Jeremy McKenzie says the recent attacks against the mainstream media are the
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result of them lying and misrepresenting people, and not because their journalists are women and
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people of colour. McKenzie was recently thrust into the centre of the Conservative Party's
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leadership race after the 35-year-old Canadian Armed Forces veteran shook hands with frontrunner
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Pierre Polyev during a meet and greet in Nova Scotia. In the days following, several Liberal
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and NDP MPs called for Polyev to denounce McKenzie by name. Instead, Polyev denounced racism and all
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who spread it, and said he couldn't be held responsible for the actions of every person he
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met. McKenzie said he met with Polyev because he wanted to ask him about his commitment to defund
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the CBC. But McKenzie also wanted to take a photograph with Polyev because he knew this
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would happen. I knew the media would run with this conspiracy theory that Pierre Polyev
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James Topp and I are all secretly colluding together with neo-Nazis to take over the country.
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