Conservatives won’t say if Rebel booths to be banned at future party events
OTTAWA — Prominent federal Conservatives, including leader Andrew Scheer, have vowed not to give any more interviews to the Rebel but will their party cut all its ties to the controversial far-right media outlet?
So far, the party isn’t saying.
The Conservative party sold space in the corridors outside each of its last two conventions to the Rebel — in Vancouver in 2016 and at the leadership convention last May from which Scheer emerged the victor — so the outlet could set up a booth to promote its incendiary brand of conservatism and sell its wares to delegates.
Among the items on sale at the leadership event were T-shirts emblazoned with “I Believe in the Separation of Mosque and State” and a book by Rebel contributor Lauren Southern entitled “Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants and Islam Screwed My Generation.”