From the moment he became Con leader I warned that Pierre Poilievre would take this country to a very dark place.
And sure enough he wasted no time attacking Justin Trudeau like a rabid hyena, trying to smear him into submission, by blaming him for everything from the economy to the weather.
It was ugly, it was threatening, but Trudeau isn't easily intimidated, so like the Wicked Witch of the West, Poilievre summoned up his flying monkeys, and watched silently as they went after Trudeau in the Ontario town of Belleville.