Our boy in Ottawa just can't help but contradict himself.

I'm not talking about the Prime Minister, but our own Member of Parliament: Garnett Genuis.

Genuis claims to be a strong advocate of the Ukrainian cause. "Conservatives stand with Ukraine," he posted just Monday.

But just last week Genuis voted against a new Canada/Ukraine free trade deal supported by the Ukrainian government.

"Ukraine needs weapons, not a Carbon Tax," is his excuse.

Okay, so we get that you hate the Carbon Tax Garnett. But what does this have to do with a free trade deal?

Nothing, actually. It's just an excuse the Conservatives are using to stop supporting Ukraine. This free trade deal does mention working together to promote carbon pricing, but not only is this part of a non-binding clause, and therefore forces nothing on Ukraine (a point on which Ukrainian officials agree) — Ukraine already has a carbon tax!

Ukraine has had a carbon tax since 2011.

How can Canada possibly be forcing Ukraine to do something it has already done?

Genuis and his leader, Pierre Pollievre, are taking two words out of a 30-chapter several-hundred-page document and throwing the whole thing out.

Genuis also claims that he voted against it because the Liberals also didn't accept a proposal to add the free flow of weapons to the trade agreement.

This also is just another excuse, of course.

Genuis is saying one thing, but doing another here. His support for Ukraine has ended, and he and his party are trying to slip away from their promises to that nation and to us.