I’ll not comment on the particulars of PoppyGate, other than to offer this: the president of the Royal Canadian Legion’s P.E.I. command was quoted by the CBC as saying “The people who are distributing these poppies are normally people who have never spent a day in the service of their country in their lives.”
Leo Broderick and his band of co-conspirators may be disrespectful, irreverent, iconoclastic, controversial, and somewhat tone-deaf as to how to effectively manipulate public opinion, but I challenge you to name me a group of more intensely patriotic people.
We each serve our county in different ways.