Last week, RCMP announced it was investigating rape threats made against Ana Poilievre, the high-profile wife of the newly elected Conservative leader by Jeremy Mackenzie (of extremist right, Dialogon fame). Unfortunately for the unhappy couple, photos have also emerged of Mr. Poilievre shaking Mackenzie's hand at a rally, literally inviting the man into the Conservative Party tent (though PP still claims he knows nothing about the far-right leader's violent past or hateful views). 

Though no one shares blame for these threats besides Mackenzie himself, it's hard to see it as anything but the natural culmination of a dangerous strategy employed by Pierre Poilievre to both endear himself to the far-right and to use his wife as a shield against anti-vaxx and other conspiracy theorists who constantly flocked to Poilievre's events. This, of course, should beg the question: if Pierre Poilievre is willing to put his wife in such terrible danger, what is he willing to do to me?