“I hope there are some Canadians here,” said Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland as she joined comedian Bill Maher for a one-on-one interview Friday on the set of HBO’s Real Time in Los Angeles, ‘cuz campaigning for leadership of a Canadian political party.
Freeland told Maher that departing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fell out of favour with Canadians, in part, due to his trademark
penchant for performative wokeness.
“I am an old-school Liberal,” said Freeland?? “And Liberals in Canada win when we are focused on people and on what they need in their lives.”
“We lose when people
think (???) that we are focused on virtue signalling and identity politics.”
Freeland told Maher that she’s “received the memo” about voters being fed up with bothersome and largely symbolic policies like Ottawa’s new
bylaws limiting vehicle idling.
“Politicians win when they listen to people (and) lose when we think we are smarter than the people we work for,” said Freeland.
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Maher has been a fierce critic of Trudeau in recent years, notably
comparing him to Hitler at the height of the early 2022 convoy protests, over his rhetoric targeting Canadians who resisted the COVID vaccine…& Freeland was in the thick of that up to her eyebrows on team Trudeau.
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Freeland stayed mum on the other leadership candidates
, but did have a few harsh words for Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre.
“I call him maple syrup MAGA, or mini-Trump,” Freeland joked after Maher asked her how to pronounce Poilievre’s name,
‘cuz if you can’t debate him on his policies, you’ve gotta attack him on made up fallacies…
"I call him maple syrup MAGA, or mini-Trump," Freeland joked after Maher asked her how to pronounce Pierre Poilievre's name
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