{"id":18564,"date":"2022-02-05T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18564"},"modified":"2022-02-05T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:24:56","slug":"nice-hat-candice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18564","title":{"rendered":"Nice hat Candice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Painter-nice-hat-candice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Painter-nice-hat-candice.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Painter-nice-hat-candice-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Painter-nice-hat-candice-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Candice Bergen Interim Conservative Leader sporting a Make America Great Again hat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen pushed predecessor Erin O\u2019Toole to show support for the Freedom Convoy protest, arguing last week there are \u201c<strong>good people on both sides,<\/strong>\u201d an echo of the phrase made infamous by former U.S. president Donald Trump after a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nice-hat-candice-bergen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nice-hat-candice-bergen.jpg 436w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/nice-hat-candice-bergen-174x300.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 85vw, 436px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bergen also told O\u2019Toole and other members of the Conservative shadow cabinet that there were \u201creasonable people\u201d at the truckers\u2019 protest, just as there were in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an email Bergen sent Monday, obtained by CTV News, she told other MPs \u201cI don\u2019t think we should be asking them to go home\u201d and proposed that the party&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/bergen-advised-against-telling-truckers-to-leave-ottawa-said-protests-should-be-made-pm-s-problem-1.5767213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cturn this into the PM\u2019s problem.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nice-hat-Ms-Bergen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nice-hat-Ms-Bergen.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nice-hat-Ms-Bergen-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Nice-hat-Ms-Bergen-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She also shared pictures of herself visiting on the Hill with protesters from her home province of Manitoba, tweeting that, \u201cThey deserve to be heard and they deserve respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s phrase \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/in-his-own-words-president-trump-on-charlottesville-protest-1.3547487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cvery fine people on both sides\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 drew heavy criticism when he used it to characterize the Charlottesville protest, where white supremacists marched with torches and Nazi and Confederate flags, chanting anti-Semitic slurs. One counter-protester was killed at Charlottesville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpts Source: <strong>CTV News<\/strong> Feb 4\/22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/candice-hat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/candice-hat.jpg 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/candice-hat-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Paintter-tip-o-the-hat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Paintter-tip-o-the-hat.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Paintter-tip-o-the-hat-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Court-Paintter-tip-o-the-hat-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen pushed predecessor Erin O\u2019Toole to show support for the Freedom Convoy protest, arguing last week there are \u201cgood people on both sides,\u201d an echo of the phrase made infamous by former U.S. president Donald Trump after a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. Bergen also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nice hat Candice&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18575,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564\/revisions\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}