anti putin vilification in the MSM? I thought that was normal news before the 2016 election cycle. Did you not learn about the cold war? The relationship between Russia and the west has never been good. 

And there are good reasons to despise Putin. How did he afford multiple mansions and castles with his meager bureaucrat salary? How did a lawyer who uncovered tax fraud die in prison, only to culminate in the Magnitsky Act?

When you defend a undisputed criminal it raises questions as to your own allegiance - Canada or Putin?