For the second time this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took a more hawkish stance on Iran and its regional allies than Canada or the United States, pressing the Trudeau government Thursday to add the Houthis, the Iran-allied group in Yemen, to Ottawa’s list of terrorist entities.
Poilievre’s remarks came days after he said he backed Israel’s right to hit nuclear facilities in Iran.
Commemorating the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7th should have been an emotional moment for agreement on all sides in the House of Commons. Instead, Canadians got a front-row seat to the fear now raging in Conservative ranks as they face the possibility that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be replaced prior to the next election.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s blistering personal attack against Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly(opens in a new tab) will continue to play out in the House even though Speaker Greg Fergus has now asked him to apologize.
Joly? Really? Mulcair is drug addled.
Speaker Greg Fergus ruled Tuesday that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t be allowed to speak in the House of Commons for the rest of the day after he refused to withdraw his claim that Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is pandering to Hamas.
In question period Monday, Poilievre asked Joly to condemn what he called “genocidal chants from hateful mobs” during recent protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Police have opened investigations into alleged hate speech following some rallies and charges have been laid in some cases.
Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. And hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate.
But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?
For the Conservative leader, there seems to be no such thing as overstatement. And he seems to feel it’s almost always worth going on the attack.
I am doubtful of Poilievre on the matter of mass immigration and it is likely I will vote PPC on that issue alone however he reaches Canadians for a very simple reason.
After years of Trudeau’s lies, the scandals, the graft, his lunatic obsession with changing the weather, and of course the destruction of our economic and social stability through his ruinous mass immigration policy Canadians have found a voice speaking in their defence.
Trudeau has never “listened” to Canadians instead he has governed like a high school tyrant, a ‘mean girl’ and a really stupid one at that.
If there is conflict in the land you can trace it back to Trudeau.
Trudeau’s media is resorting to tone policing because Poilievre resonates with Canadians and they fear the loss of press subsidies.
The Conservative leader has gone on an ethnic media charm offensive, one feature of his strategy to reach diverse voters in Liberal dominated areas like the Greater Toronto Area.
OTTAWA—He’s railed against mainstream media he says is “bought-and-paid-for” by the Trudeau government. He routinely bickers with a parliamentary press gallery he accuses of being biased.
But on a warm June evening at his Stornoway residence in Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was on a media charm offensive.
Quebec Premier François Legault denied he was endorsing the federal Conservative Party when he last month called on the Bloc Québécois to vote for a Tory confidence motion to bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
No one in the Quebec media seemed to believe him.
The small group of young advisors who ran Pierre Poilievre’s campaign to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada two years ago started out worried. Politicians in their large and sparsely populated country tend to avoid holding rallies; to get to meetings, people have to drive distances that the British mind might find hard to fathom. There’s a constant paranoia about not being able to fill the room.
“Within about a week we realised that wasn’t going to be a problem,” says Ginny Roth, who was in charge of communications for the campaign. “We knew Pierre was popular online but we didn’t know how that would translate on the ground. In fact, we were soon having to book bigger venues.”
“Young people will change the world,” we often hear. And the implied change is always the same: a leftward shift. Youth are naturally rebellious, we’re told, and they’re bound to cast aside hidebound conservative ways. This has generally been true for Western and Central European youth, who have tended to lean left. The French coalition of far-left parties known as the New Popular Front got nearly half the 18- to 24-year-old vote and 38 percent of the 25- to 34-year-old vote in the last election, and the German Green Party would hold a majority today if only 18- to 34-year-olds voted. But now youth voting patterns seem to be changing. The surge of right-wing parties in recent European elections won significant support from people of all ages. And we can expect the proportion of right-wing youth to grow as liberal and left-wing parties get crazier. Indeed, this is what has happened in Canada.
On his way to the Conservative leadership, Pierre Poilievre called Jean Charest a Liberal and Patrick Brown a liar. More recently, he’s called opioid policy in British Columbia wacko and Montreal’s mayor incompetent. He’s expressed support for Freedom Convoy protesters and disdain for lobbyists. He wants to defund the CBC. Will he coarsen the national character?
If I’m being honest, I have to say I’m not particularly worried.
With a federal election that could come any day now, and the Liberal government’s public favour continually waning, some, shall we say, unorthodox media practices appear to be afoot, particularly in terms of how Pierre Poilievre is being presented to Canadian viewers. The Conservatives are always complaining about progressive media bias. This is what they mean.
h/t DS
Conservative MPs will refuse to engage with CTV and its reporters until the network acknowledges that a recent clip of leader Pierre Poilievre was “maliciously” edited.
While CTV issued an apology, Poilievre’s director of media relations Sebastian Skamski said it wasn’t good enough.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre signaled the Liberals’ carbon price and the economy will remain his prime target when Parliament resumes this week.
He painted a dystopian picture during a Sunday morning speech to his caucus, saying the Liberal government’s plans to increase the price would cause a “nuclear winter” for the economy.
Pierre Poilievre is winning the online rage war. But his playbook may be crumbling before his eyes
During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, progressives online, preaching a sunny message, generated a collective 1.5 billion views across all platforms, according to one count generated by the FWIW newsletter. It was “a huge shift” — primarily because it’s been a long time since the internet has been a positive, even fun, place to be.
The Liberal left has convinced itself that Trump is on the ropes as result of a rigged debate. Good for them.
Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward a non-confidence motion “at the earliest possible opportunity” when Parliament resumes this fall in an effort to trigger a federal election.
The Conservative leader is calling on Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to commit to joining his party in bringing down the Trudeau government.
“It’s put up or shut up time for the NDP,” Poilievre told reporters outside Parliament Hill’s West Block on Wednesday.
The Grand Seduction. That’s how some media outlets referred to Pierre Poilievre’s many visits to Quebec this summer. It’s perhaps a reference to the 2013 movie of the same name based on the 2003 French version, “La Grande Séduction.”
The film centres around the struggling fishing village of Ste-Marie-la-Mauderne in Quebec, where all residents are on welfare and engage in charming antics to secure economic revival. This metaphor fittingly encapsulates Poilievre’s campaign trail across the province.
