RE: FILDEBRANDT: Woke meltdown over Poilievre's 'Handshake Gate' jumps the shark.I am a card-carrying member of both the UCP and CPC. I also have a great deal of respect for Mr. Fildebrandt and his newspaper. However I don’t agree with him concerning Poilievre’s handshake with a white supremacist basically being a non-issue..While it is true that Poilievre can’t realistically be expected to know everyone who he shakes hands with at publicly accessible gatherings, the fact he has neither apologized upon learning who Mackenzie is, nor disavowed him and his ilk is disturbing. It is also quite frankly unbecoming of a potential prime minister in waiting..Many people in the Chinese-Canadian community are very upset by Poilievre’s lack of apology, or condemnation of Mackenzie. Many of us are CPC supporters. But, we don’t support a leader who will pander to the racist and violent far-right through silence and seeming indifference..I despise the ‘woke’ agenda, but I don’t believe calling out Poilievre for trivializing his inadvertent handshake with Mackenzie, nor his lack of condemnation of Mackenzie’s nauseous views, is ‘woke’.Liam Duc Looi.Okotoks, Alberta
RE: FILDEBRANDT: Woke meltdown over Poilievre's 'Handshake Gate' jumps the shark.I am a card-carrying member of both the UCP and CPC. I also have a great deal of respect for Mr. Fildebrandt and his newspaper. However I don’t agree with him concerning Poilievre’s handshake with a white supremacist basically being a non-issue..While it is true that Poilievre can’t realistically be expected to know everyone who he shakes hands with at publicly accessible gatherings, the fact he has neither apologized upon learning who Mackenzie is, nor disavowed him and his ilk is disturbing. It is also quite frankly unbecoming of a potential prime minister in waiting..Many people in the Chinese-Canadian community are very upset by Poilievre’s lack of apology, or condemnation of Mackenzie. Many of us are CPC supporters. But, we don’t support a leader who will pander to the racist and violent far-right through silence and seeming indifference..I despise the ‘woke’ agenda, but I don’t believe calling out Poilievre for trivializing his inadvertent handshake with Mackenzie, nor his lack of condemnation of Mackenzie’s nauseous views, is ‘woke’.Liam Duc Looi.Okotoks, Alberta