The Conservative leader is facing questions after stopping to cheer on an anti-carbon tax convoy camp near the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where he bluntly accused the prime minister of lying about “everything.”

In video filmed by the protesters, who have been living at the site for three weeks, Poilievre tells the group to “keep it up” and calls their protest “a good, old-fashioned Canadian tax revolt.”

“Everyone hates the tax because everyone’s been screwed over,” Poilievre is heard saying in the video, which shows protesters with “Axe the tax” and "F–k Trudeau " signs and flags. A car with ‘Make Canada Great Again’ scrawled on the rear window is seen parked at the site.

“People believed his lies. Everything he said was bullshit, from top to bottom.”

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    The Conservative leader is facing questions after stopping to cheer on an anti-carbon tax convoy camp near the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where he bluntly accused the prime minister of lying about “everything.”

    In another video from his visit, Poilievre, who has been beating Trudeau’s Liberals in the polls since last summer, is seen leaving a RV with a drawing of the black and white Diagolon flag on the door.

    According to RCMP documents tabled at the Emergencies Act inquiry last year, the national police force believes Diagolon is a militia-like network whose supporters subscribe to an “accelerationist” ideology — the idea that a civil war or the collapse of western governments is inevitable and ought to be sped up.

    Jones, a notorious broadcaster who has been ordered to pay more than a billion dollars in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook victims after claiming the school shooting was a hoax, has called Poilievre the “real deal” and recently reiterated his support.

    “As a vocal opponent of Justin Trudeau’s punishing carbon tax which has driven up the cost of groceries, gas, and heating, he made a brief, impromptu stop,” he said.

    David Coletto, founder and CEO of polling firm Abacus Data, said part of Poilievre’s strategy in visiting the protest encampment might have been to motivate members of his base who are drawn by Maxime Bernier’s populist People’s Party of Canada — which took four per cent of the vote in the last election.

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