Jamil Jivani really rubs Liberals the wrong way...

An offer to put country over party has them very upset.

When Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre stood hand in hand at the memorial service at Tumbler Ridge, the photo was seen as a needed moment of unity to help the country heal. When Jamil Jivani offered to help the Carney Liberals by going to Washington and pushing Canada’s case with his old friend Vice President J.D. Vance, it was seen as an act of treasonous and they compared Jivani to a Nazi collaborator.

What ever happened to Team Canada and everyone doing what they could to help overcome the impact of Trump’s tariffs?

The Liberals never really meant it.

Just like they excluded Danielle Smith for not singing from the Liberal hymn book, they are doing the same with Jivani.

I spent an hour talking to him on Friday for the Full Comment Podcast. I believe him when he says he made the offer in good faith to work with the Carney Liberals.

As I write in my Toronto Sun column today, he offered to work with them and they said no. Then he went down and they have been mocking him and attacking him incessantly.

You can watch a short clip of our chat here about what went down on the visit.

Why the Liberals would not embrace his offer and work with him and then use that to show that they are able to work with everyone, take credit for anything good is beyond me.

It was a missed opportunity.

Still, I’ve got plenty of angry reader writing to tell me he was wrong to do this.

Here’s a message from Tony Caputo

About your column. Jovani has no right representing mine or anyone else’s to represent Canada’s interests abroad.

The trump organization has shown no willingness to engage in any meaningful dialogue with our government.

Do you not read his f”fizzy feats “ on truth social.

Have you read Hillbilly Elegy? That’s the real Vance.

I normally enjoy your columns however not this one.

From Mark Hayden

I am 65 year old military veteran and voted conservative except for the last election, this new MP Jamal is wrong, he should be going through his Party leader. He is NOT a team player and using his relationship with Vance to boost his own Political career. You sure don't know politics or an individual sometimes selfish, self serving behaviour very much . It is so obvious what he is doing.

Now, Jivani did have the blessing of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to go down there. I asked Pierre about that last December and he saw it as a way for parties in this country to work together in the national interest.

The Liberals didn’t see it that way and most of the media is whipping up an anti-Jivani bent to this.

That won’t come from me, I take him at his word that he was putting country before party.

If you want the full conversation, sorry, it’s audio only, see the YouTube link below, but there will be more video clips coming out.