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At this point, it's just virtue (vice?) signalling.
To be a good member of the right-wing-nutjob club, you have to know all the shibboleths: anti-climate change, vaccine denialism, performative bigtory, anti-urban, performative environmental abuses, transphobia, etc. Tribalism is fundamental to human psychology, and--despite people bitching about purity tests on the left--the right has been purity-testing it's members, purging non-conformers and othering enemies for a while.
Poillevre knows he must go all-in, lest he be replaced by someone with even less shame.