Does Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre have a secret team of intrepid researchers digging away in the backrooms of Parliament Hill?
After all, just look at how relentlessly the Tories have been going after the foibles and follies of Justin Trudeau’s government.
Most recently it was the controversies over Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault’s conflicting claims about his family’s Indigenous background that eventually forced his resignation.
Ex-CBC staffer defends CBC, colour me shocked.
The head of Canada’s opposition has called for Justin Trudeau to be fired for saying his government would abide by an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, which will take on Mr Trudeau’s Liberals in next year’s election, criticised Canadian premier for his “extreme” views.
“He’s interested in arresting the leader of a democratically-elected government, the state of Israel, which has been besieged by terrorists and foreign tyrants attacking its land,” Mr Poiliever said in a radio interview in Canada.
Tory leader Pierre Poilievre debunked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s grand gesture of a two-month GST break on restaurant bills, processed food and children’s toys.
The Liberals announced Thursday morning the federal government would suspend GST on selected items from mid-December to mid-February, plus send all Canadians who filed a tax return, worked in 2023 and made less than $150,000 a $250 rebate in the spring.
Pierre Poilievre stepped into the culture war on Sunday with a video decrying the assaults on Canada’s national culture that have erupted during Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Some of these are the direct fault of that government, such as the new passports that demean and cheapen Canadian heritage.
Welcome to the woke weird wacko world of Justin Trudeau.
Sign here if you want Canada back: https://t.co/Mlman54OiS pic.twitter.com/hbExw0cfy0
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 17, 2024
There’s always value in watching what’s going on in other countries to learn something about what is happening in your own.
As someone fascinated by British politics, I’ve been closely watching the political developments in the United Kingdom over the past year, particularly Labour’s 2024 electoral victory.
He won’t differ much on immigration from Trudeau, the numbers may come down but the pattern won’t change as Canada becomes the 3rd world.
He will play identity politics, just more discreetly.
Will he defund CBC? A little maybe but my guess is he will leave it mostly intact. He’ll still campaign on defunding of course.
Will he continue to fund the news media? Yes.
Will he end affirmative action hiring that legalizes discrimination against whites and especially white males? Not likely.
Will he do a DOGE on our massive public service vote bank? Not if he can swing it to his favour.
He won’t be Justin Trudeau and for most that’s all they need.
Liberal MPs need to stop comparing Canada’s Conservatives to Donald Trump’s Republicans as that strategy is losing its persuasive power following the U.S. presidential election, say observers.
Former Liberal staffer Olivier Cullen was among several strategists who advised the Liberal government to avoid such language.
“Positioning yourself as running against Trump-lite may not be the best approach,” he said.
If an election were held today, 41% of committed voters would vote Conservative, while 22% would vote for the Liberals, 20% for the NDP, and 5% for the Greens. The BQ has 38% of the vote in Quebec. The Conservative vote share is down 3 while the NDP and PPC vote shares are up 2 each respectively.
Small wonder Poilievre leads with opposition like this … LILLEY: Progressive outrage over Gretzky and Trump pure hypocrisy
OTTAWA — Right-leaning parties west of Ontario have been left with just a handful of urban seats after October’s provincial elections, but pundits say this won’t necessarily slow down Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s momentum in major cities, so long as he stays focused on the issues affecting urbanites.
“My sense, from people I talk to, is that the Conservatives are still in pretty good shape here,” said Matt Spoke, a Toronto-based real estate investor and tech entrepreneur.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is already reshaping conservatism in the English-speaking world.
In the past month alone, Poilievre has been held up as an example for British Conservatives to follow in articles published in the Times and the Telegraph, two influential right-leaning British newspapers.
In an interview with the Times, British Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick called Poilievre the “most apt lodestar” for his party in 2024.
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is testing a group of digital ads and is producing a series of broadcast advertising, including negative ads targeting his Conservative rival, as the Liberal leader insists he is staying on to lead the party into the next election.
The digital ads, in English and French, were produced over the past two weeks, while the broadcast ads are in production, with the aim being not just to highlight the government’s work and themes, but to paint the contrast with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, said a party source with knowledge of the campaign in the works, who spoke on a background-only basis.
PoilievreHitlerTrump 24/7
In a little over a year at the latest, but possibly as soon as December if the Trudeau government collapses, Canada goes to a general election. While it is always risky to call results in advance, on present indications it is very likely that Pierre Poilievre will become prime minister.
That’s the good news. But disappointment could follow close behind. Canadians are apparently ready for change alright, but unfortunately for the Conservatives, the expectations are enormous and not all are reasonable. But they exist, and after nine years of Liberal mis-rule, who can blame them?
Tory leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters the Trudeau Liberals’ Thursday morning immigration announcement was a desperate attempt to gain support ahead of the next election.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Immigration Minister Marc Miller this morning announced an immigration cap, with 2025 quotas for 2025 falling from 500,000 to 395,000. Trudeau also confirmed he has every intention to stay on as prime minister and leader of the Liberal party.
You could call it Pierre Poilievre’s blind spot.
Because the Conservative leader sees politics through the prism of a game — as calculated moves required to crush your opponents and avoid the traps they have laid — rather than as a means towards a policy end, he’s losing sight of the larger picture.
At issue, of course, is Poilievre’s unwillingness to obtain a security clearance.
While there are no inevitabilities in life, it seems at least close to inevitable that the next government will be a Conservative one; and, what’s more, the party appears to be on the precipice of winning a historic majority of well over 200 seats. But this is old (and increasingly less interesting) news. While a weary government continues to delay, Conservative attention has increasingly moved towards the questions of what needs to happen after the election. This includes the as-of-yet unresolved but necessary articulations of how the party will, first, actually accomplish the broad agenda they have set for themselves and, second, do so off of the support of a manageable electoral coalition that is sizable enough to stay in power.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s in favour of mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment for kids and prisoners who are found to be incapable of making decisions for themselves.
He said earlier this summer he was open to the idea, but needed to study the issue more closely.
I can’t wait for the screeching to begin.
