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Drake ‘supports the trades,’ Poilievre tweeted

Drake ‘supports the trades,’ Poilievre tweeted

If Drake’s reading this, it’s too late.

Video footage of the Canadian rap star appearing to cheer on a federal Conservative cabinet minister has already been tweeted.

“Even @Drake supports the trades,” Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre posted on July 10, along with a link to a YouTube video mash-up featuring the Toronto-born Grammy winner.

Poilievre says from a podium “… that trades deserve the same respect as professions, that blue collars deserve the same respect as white collars, and polytechniques and colleges deserve the same respect as universities, because those are the skills we’re going to need to build the jobs of the future.”

Cut to Drake at a Toronto Raptors-Brooklyn Nets game, score 96-80 for the Raptors with 13 seconds to go, and the singer is cheering and egging on the fans from the sidelines.

It’s unclear who produced the video, which was uploaded July 9 by a user named sdbcraig, for whom there is no other information. The video had just 1,147 views as of Tuesday.

Yahoo Canada News has reached out to Drake for comment.

Poilievre’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the video.

Poilievre was in hot water again this week when he wore a blue Conservative Party polo shirt to a photo op to promote the $3 billion Universal Child Care Benefit.

Wearing partisan clothing to an official government announcement may be questionable but does not violate conflict-of-interest rules, according to the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner of Canada.

“Wearing a party logo to such an event would not contravene #COIAct or #MembersCode, but it could be seen as inappropriate,” the office tweeted Monday in reply to political commentator Stephen Lautens.