Anyway, diagonon & Poilievre. In the last week, the Liberal party has leaned hard into accusations that the Conservatives are allied with a secretive white nationalist fifth column known as Diagolon.
“Pierre Poilievre is courting far-right extremist groups,” reads
one of several Liberal party social media posts this week pushing the Diagolon line. And in Question Period on Tuesday, Trudeau countered every single question from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre with accusations that the opposition were in bed with white supremacists, etc…
The evidence for any of this is incredibly tenuous. Multiple police and security service investigations into Diagolon have found it is little more than a loose coalition of dyspeptic right-wingers on the internet. What’s more, Diagolon’s ties to the Conservative party seem to consist almost exclusively of a time in 2022 when a Diagoloner waited in line to shake Poilievre’s hand at a fundraiser.
Diagolon isn't even close to being the violent fifth column the Liberals say it is, and its ties to the Conservatives are unbelievably tenuous
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That’s what that is, but it beats answering questions in parliament I guess.
This Diagonon has been an effective boogeyman for the Liberals, & it worked in the past…and they’re still try’n to milk it. The word Diagolon first showed up during the Freedom Convoy protests in 2022, when the Canadian Anti-Hate Network repeatedly cited it as evidence that extremist anti-government elements had infiltrated the protest.
These accusations were soon being repeated in the House of Commons.
Liberal MP Arif Virani, who is now the federal justice minister, twice cited the presence of Diagolon members at the Freedom Convoy protests in order justify the invocation of the Emergencies Act. In her own speech endorsing the Emergencies Act, NDP MP Heather McPherson
called Diagolon “a group that seeks to overthrow our government through violence.”
Diagolon is the name of a fictitious utopian country created by Nova Scotia-based Canadian Armed Forces veteran Jeremy MacKenzie; its name is derived from MacKenzie’s description of the country being a diagonal line running from Alaska to Florida through areas that are almost exclusively conservative.
