Spin as you will Conservative apologist John Ibbitson, but Scheer  did the exact opposite. The campaign to inflame American opinion against  Canada by having Conservative MP's(Michelle Rempel, Pierre Poilievre  and Peter Kent) and their friends from the Rebel on Fox and the WSJ and Newsmax TV came straight from the PMO as Scheer inadvertently admitted in his stumbling, bumbling interview on  The House.

 This showed very clearly that the Conservative/ Reform party has not changed in the slightest and doesn't care what damage it does to the country as long as they can get some political mileage for it  and throw some mud on Trudeau.

 Trudeau and the Liberals may have sustained some damage from making the hard choice -but the right choice-but there is also a chance that  with this stunt in the US, Scheer has taken the Conservative Party out of consideration for many voters.