Melisa Ruscsak, an American book publisherwho drove eight hours from Ohio to attend what she thought was going to be the “second biggest book fair in the world,” said the whole thing was “just weird.”

“Nothing that they had going on there made any sense,” Ruscsak told PressProgress. “It was an event without an identity,”

“It’s like all the vendors were paying to have these political people do a debate and it was two days of that.”

One of those political panels spiralled out-of-control after an anti-lockdown activist heckled Senator Kim Pate, a local People’s Party candidate hijacked a microphone to promote her anti-vaccine book and Maxime Bernier physically restrained the moderator while shouting about “freedom of speech.”

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    That just kept getting weirder and weirder, somehow ending on the promoter trying to get a stadium in Prince of Edward Island. I need a full miniseries deep dive on this event

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      My favorite part was when the organizers sold food vouchers that they didn’t tell the food vendors about (and presumably intended to pocket the money). This, of course, was after those vendors had paid to be there.

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    One recent article authored by Stokes claimed that a Nazi-alien alliance was responsible for acts of arson at a Kellogg’s cereal factory.

    Oh my … that was an entertaining read 😂

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      Makes sense to me. The Nazis are worried about the Canadian ability to turn corn into flakes and the aliens want to put a stop to their talking tiger technology.