While Canada is miles away from the US in terms of economic potential, they seem to be hellbent on catching up to us when it comes to whose libs are more cringeworthy. They may have just taken the lead.

After Jussie Smollett shook the entire nation with his ludicrous claims, making the legal process harder for actual hate crime victims, one would assume the rest would learn from his mistakes…

Yet, here we are.

As it turns out, Joel Harden, a member of Ontario’s Legislative Assembly, stepped forth to claim he’d been a victim of a hate crime.

While his acting can’t compare to that of Smollett, he certainly made up for it in terms of blowing the entire story out of proportion.

Harden, who claims to have attended a hometown rally supporting queer and trans youth, stated he felt something bad was going to happen from a mile away and was working around the clock to de-escalate any potential conflict.

Naturally, a story like this can’t make headlines without the narrator himself being involved in some violent act. This is exactly what happened to the lawmaker, who was supposedly attacked by none other than a conservative.

In a matter of seconds, Harden was punched in the back and then in the face; while the story may have been plausible, camera footage on the scene tells a different tale.

In a sad attempt to support his hilarious narrative, the liberal lawmaker even posted a picture to his official Twitter account, claiming conservatives are going around and punching people.

If you look at the police reports from that day, you’ll find five people were arrested, with little to no clarification as to which side of the protest they were on.

However, the issue lies in the fact this was a protest where every other person was holding up their phone to film the event, making sure all their followers on social media knew just how “devoted to the cause” they are.

Yet, not a single one of these videos has Harden being punched.

In fact, a short clip of Harden shouting into his bullhorn shows the object was unnecessarily close to his face. Coincidentally enough, it’s in the exact spot where he claims to have been “rabbit punched”.

Naturally, his story changed overnight.

Now, he’s claiming that he didn’t “take a punch for trans youth” but rather, a bystander pushed the bullhorn into his face, causing the abrasion no one would’ve believed came from a punch anyway.

Everyone wants to be a victim these days. Yet, no one actually wants to help the real victims; that may just be the best description of the liberal agenda we’re forced to listen to.