The day after being disqualified from the Conservative leadership race Patrick Brown went on CTV News to be interviewed by Evan Solomon.

This video came to my attention thanks to this post to TikTok by Marina D (@officialmarinad):

@officialmarinad #patrickbrown #pierrepoilievre #pierrepoilievreislyingtoyou #pierrepoilievrewillneverbepm #electionscanada #pierrepoilievreisatraitor ♬ original sound – Marina D

You can watch the full interview here:

Marina D asks, “So is the whistleblower still a whistleblower or a paid political operative?”

As many of you have seen, Pierre Poilievre admitted that his leadership campaign paid for the legal fees of the “whistleblower.”

See here:

WATCH: @PierrePoilievre asked why he paid for the whistleblower's legal fees who took down his main rival, Patrick Brown.

"Why was your campaign in particular, the one that ought to have paid this bill?"

He gives a short non-answer, then runs away.#cdnpoli #PierrePoilievre pic.twitter.com/gDMNcGbtPR

— Jason Pugh 🏳️‍🌈 (@TheJasonPugh) July 26, 2023

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So, there are a few things I’d like to point out from Brown’s interview with Solomon.

(Source: CTV News)

“Evan, that’s never been done. That’s never been done in Canadian history in an internal leadership to run paid TV commercials in an opponent’s media market.”

Running attack ads in a leadership race for the first time in Canadian history! Well, that certainly shows how significant a threat Poilievre and his campaign team thought Brown was.

Of course, that is right on brand for Poilievre, considering who he hired to help run his campaign.

(Pictured: Ontario/Canada Proud’s Jeff Ballingall)
Poilievre’s campaign hires team behind Canada Proud to boost his messages online

The interview continues with Solomon reading the response from Poilievre’s campaign:

“Last night Patrick Brown was disqualified from the Conservative leadership race because of credible allegations that he had violated the financial provisions of the Canada elections act.”

Brown responds by asking:

“So. So Evan, my first response is they say “credible allegations” – how does Pierre Poilievre’s campaign know the allegations and my campaign doesn’t?

How do they know they’re credible allegations? All we know is there an anonymous allegation that a corporation was paying someone to work on my campaign?”

“No name. No information. We were responding to a phantom request.” – Patrick Brown

How did Pierre Poilievre and his campaign team know the allegations were credible? The allegations, which turned out to be false, came from the same person whose legal fees were covered by Poilievre, which he admitted to just days ago.

Why didn’t Charest’s or any other CPC leadership contender’s campaigns pay the $37,000 in legal fees?

This whole thing begs the question of what did Pierre Poilievre know, and when did he know it?

JP