Seems the media that's following Scheer's campaign trek is not letting him off   
   the hook on his latest accusations against the Liberals - and NDP.  Good for   
   them. Bad timing for Scheer.     
      
   He shudda started dragging those BS out of his ass a little sooner in the   
   campaign.  And too bad for him the PPC learned of the company Scheer hired to   
   smear them.  Voters will be reminded at whose knee Scheer learned his dirty   
   politics:   
      
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   CBC News · Posted: Oct 20, 2019   
      
      
   Inside 48 hours and a momentum shift on the Conservative campaign   
      
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   New line of attack   
      
   Scheer's plane touched down in Fredericton early the next morning. His team   
   headed to a local brewery, where a couple hundred people had gathered to hear   
   him speak.   
      
   "We are only three days away from Canadians finally having their say on Justin   
   Trudeau's last four years as prime minister," he said to big cheers as he   
   started into his usual stump speech.   
      
   But he snuck in a new line of attack, one that did not go unnoticed.   
      
   "We've looked at the Liberal and NDP platforms and a coalition of the two   
   would run a deficit of $40 billion next year alone," he declared.   
      
   "To pay for even half of these never-ending deficits, the Trudeau-NDP   
   coalition would have to raise the GST from 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent, or cut   
   completely the Canada Social Transfer to the provinces."   
      
   At no point in this campaign have either the Liberals or the NDP mused about   
   raising the GST. Despite that, Scheer dug in when challenged by reporters.   
      
   "We are showing Canadians the types of costs that will be associated with this   
   massive amount of new deficits. They will have to make choices.... Raising the   
   GST from 5 to 7.5 per cent is one option."   
      
   The claim was no accident, and was likely aimed at motivating the conservative   
   base to show up in big numbers on Monday.   
      
   But when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh both   
   declared the allegation to be false, Scheer's claims became one of the stories   
   of the day.   
   Friday night surprise, Saturday questions   
      
   Repeated questions from reporters about his GST claim were clearly frustrating   
   for Scheer's road team, as Conservative staffers pointed out the Liberals were   
   playing their own numbers game and making false claims about Conservative   
   spending cuts.   
      
   If the mood behind the scenes was starting to harden, it was only made worse   
   late Friday when The Globe and Mail broke a story that claimed a well-known   
   political operative was hired by the Conservatives to secretly sling mud at   
   Maxime Bernier and The    
   People's Party of Canada. CBC News also published the story.   
      
   Scheer had to have known he would be bombarded by questions about the story   
   when he stood before reporters at his daily news conference Saturday morning.   
      
   "As a rule, we never make comments on vendors that we may or may not have   
   engaged with," he said, over and over and over again.   
      
   Unwilling to veer away from his talking point, the news conference turned into   
   a standoff.   
      
   Reporters broke etiquette rules, asking more than just one question and one   
   followup, with a frustrated staffer threatening to end the event if   
   journalists didn't abide by that standard. Scheer soldiered on without calling   
   a halt to the questions, even    
   allowing a CBC reporter six followup questions.   
      
   But to say it went poorly for the Conservatives would be an understatement.   
      
      
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