Leader of the Conservative Party Andrew Scheer has tweeted a message to the unofficial Twitter account of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s second plane, which Scheer noted was “looking good last night at #YYZ [Toronto Pearson International Airport]”.
The response from the account was immediately there, reading “I burned thousands of gallons of fuel getting Justin Trudeau to his announcement on fighting climate change yesterday lol.”
Good to see you too @AndrewScheer! I burned thousands of gallons of fuel getting Justin Trudeau to his announcement on fighting climate change yesterday lol. I’m helping!#TwoPlaneTrudeau ✈✈ #cdnpoli #elxn43 https://t.co/ssDBR25zCq
— Unofficial account of Justin Trudeau's cargo plane (@TrudeauPlaneB) October 9, 2019
Following the aircraft's Twitter response to Scheer’s tweet, netizens posted sarcastic remarks related to the Canadian Conservative Party leader’s gaffe.
‘Look Canadians, Andrew Scheer is busy sending tweets just like Donald Trump’, one user wrote, while another claimed that Scheer is “green with envy” over Trudeau possessing two planes.
More brilliant insight from the commander in cheese. Maybe pick up this week’s newspaper? If you’re not too busy releasing your platform, that is.
— Clare Hecla (@hitaskunk) October 9, 2019
Speaking of plane, here’s a representation of Scheer’s victory prospects: pic.twitter.com/oxdPluizF3
— Matthew Forbes (@VaughanPappy) October 10, 2019
— Tony Lea (@TonyLeaToronto) October 9, 2019
I wish you were as obsessed with what is important to average Canadians as you are with @JustinTrudeau.
— DriveAMclaren (@driveamclaren) October 9, 2019
Andrew Scheer is an American and has Donald Trump operatives working on his campaign!
— Winter - My friends call me Nickie (@winter_canada) October 9, 2019
Who is paying these Donald Trump operatives? Is it the GOP?#cdnpoli #elxn43 pic.twitter.com/d93MA0soOj
Where is your platform? #NoPlatformScheer
— Lisa 🇨🇦 Entitled Princess Vagina (@lisamflower) October 9, 2019
Pitiful pic.twitter.com/iHcX7rBZ9h
— Jessica (@jessjer6) October 9, 2019
Look Canadians, Andrew Scheer is busy sending tweets just like Donald Trump.
— Canadian 10 Gen (@10Canadian) October 9, 2019
Andrew Scheer is green with envy. Full of desire for someone's possessions or advantages; extremely covetous.
— Blue Sky (@Brewski68) October 9, 2019
@AndrewScheer shouldn’t you be spending more time working on releasing a costed platform and less time arguing with @JustinTrudeau s plane and a sock puppet @EdtheSock on Twitter ? #canadiantrump
— Amanda Hayes (@amandarocksssss) October 10, 2019
#TrudeauTheHypocrite #TrudeauBlackface #TrudeauCorruption #TrudeauWorstPM #TrudeauMustGo #ButtsMustGo #ButtsMustResign pic.twitter.com/pfOdEIbpKg
— rocket10 (@duoble007) October 9, 2019
Others wondered where Scheer’s platform is ahead of the Canadian federal elections scheduled for 21 October, calling him “little man” and “jealous Andy”.
Two Planes of Canadian PM Trudeau
In early October, Conservative Party berated Trudeau for using two planes during his 40-day election campaign, despite previously boasting about his party’s drive to resolve climate change during a meeting with young environmental activist Greta Thunberg who went to North America by boat in order to avoid leaving any carbon footprint at all.
In a press release issued at the time, the Conservatives condemned Trudeau party’s “hypocrisy”, revealing photographs of two aircraft - one for Trudeau and his team and another solely for transporting the accompanying cargo.
The Canadian Prime Minister, for his part, did not dismiss the allegations about using two planes for his campaign trip.
He argued that having a cargo plane allows his party “to do more events in more parts of the country and meet more Canadians” and that the Liberal Party was buying carbon offsets to reduce the impact of the emissions from the two planes and party buses.
Scheer has himself recently been embroiled in a scandal following revelations that he has been a dual Canadian and American citizen since birth, despite his party repeatedly criticising dual citizenship among politicians.
