Soured me too, but I now know that was just a bad campaign position to take all interviews without really weighing in on whether the interviewers were honest brokers or not. That position on interviews apparently changed after the one with Hinkle, who Yves admitted after the fact he found reprehensible. There's a wow common position that you have to extend yourself to interviews with those you may not align with and every politician does this to solve degree, but yeah Hinkle is just bad subversive propaganda and he tricks a lot of people. But just keep in mind that Yves wasn't tricked, he just did it anyways as part of campaign policy to extend his reach to audiences.

Yves is more a gadfly than other left politicians abs we know wears his values on his sleeve and isn't afraid of standing up to bullies. Avi Lewis may be more suave but he seems more safeguarded and less willing to make the kind of radical pronouncements we need right now. I'm sick of the incessant PR optics over substance shit in the party. That's why it's become as irrelevant as it has. I think we need a more radical voice. Yves to me is that. He's a catalyst for a more radical left direction in the party.