“I am also happy that the suspected shooter is dead.”
With those 10 words, in response to Friday’s apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sent Canada’s propriety police into one of its trademarked tizzies.
‘I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,’ Conservative leader says
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he won’t commit to meeting the two per cent NATO defence spending target if he becomes prime minister.
“I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,” Poilievre said. “I’m inheriting a dumpster fire when it comes to the budget.
“Every time I make a financial commitment, I’m going to make sure I’ve pulled out my calculator and done all the math. People are sick and tired of politicians just announcing that they’re going to spend money without figuring out how they’re going to pay for it.”
He’s ahead of the story. Justin is going to pile on the debt between now and his political death to fiscally tie Poilievre’s hands.
It takes mere seconds to realize the man is dead serious.
When he says the country is broken it is not a slogan for him.
He means what he says. He is describing what he sees. He believes it is what Canadians see and a recent poll confirms most do.
Not every Canadian has had an intimate experience with the wrath of progressive zealots — but they’re about to.
The Liberal’s loss of their former stronghold riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s this week was the rendering of what polls have been telling us for months: a blue wave is coming to this country. And when it washes over us — make no mistake — our so-called progressives are going to unravel. It has already begun.
Justin Trudeau’s fall from grace probably has a lot to do with the perception of him as a patrician close to the heart of the Canadian establishment, who fraternizes with corporate lobbyists and vacations at the Caribbean retreats of billionaires.
Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a scrappy guy with modest Alberta roots, has been traversing the country describing Canada as a “living hell” for working class people, and promising that “when I’m prime minister my obsession — my daily obsession — will be about what is good for the working-class people of this country.”
Oh no! He consorts with the business community!
Justin has near destroyed Canada importing cheap labour for his corporate cronies.
Poilievre will be little different I am afraid to say.
His insular communications strategy is a necessary defense against Canada’s anti-American psychosis
An extreme form of mental gymnastics is required to believe that a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, pro-immigration philosemite in an interracial marriage is also Canada’s beachhead for an invasion of American-style white nationalism.
Then again, Canadians have extremely flexible imaginations.
Canada has never had a federal Conservative or Liberal leader who fit the term “career politician” more precisely than Pierre Poilievre. He was consumed by politics as a kid and has done nothing except politics ever since. A well-rounded man, he is not.
In his book, Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life, right-side journalist Andrew Lawton traces the Leader’s first political meetings to his early teens, when his mother took him to pro-life events in Calgary. Even before he graduated from high school he was working in the office of Reform Party MP Art Hanger, hauling in $600 a month.
Would Poilievre be where he is today if Trudeau was not PM?
Polls are stating Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), will be our next prime minister and will enjoy a large majority government.
But before Poilievre begins measuring the drapes in the prime minister’s residence there are some things he should keep in mind.
First, has he peaked too soon? Yes, he and his party are riding high in the polls. In fact, I am not aware of any opposition party that has been so far ahead of its opponents a year or so ahead of an election. But that is the key phrase — “a year or so ahead of an election.”
Pierre Poilievre’s vision for Canada: Heaven for the very rich and squat for everyone else
Pierre Poilievre often calls Canada “broken,” but he rarely reveals that his dream Canada is an austere place that few Canadians would recognize or want to live in.
However, in an unscripted comment last month that received almost no media attention, the Conservative leader briefly provided us with a glimpse of the bleak vision he has for Canada.
“I’m very hesitant to spend taxpayers’ money on anything other than the core services of roads, bridges, police, military, border security and a safety net for those who can’t provide for themselves. That’s common sense. Let’s bring it home,” Poilievre told reporters during a campaign stop at a Vancouver gas station.
Because Trudeau has made Canada a paradise of course.
It was Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s birthday on Monday, but he could’ve probably done without the package that one of his more obscure backbenchers dropped on his doorstep.
Conservative MP Arnold Viersen might want to consider another line of work after getting lambasted publicly by Poilievre and being forced to issue a groveling retraction.
Liberals like to portray Pierre Poilievre as scary, but a lot of Canadians simply aren’t frightened
Liberals like to say that the large polling gap with the Conservatives will be narrowed when voters stop and take a hard look at what Pierre Poilievre would do to the country.
But a new poll from Abacus shows that many Canadians have no illusions about how much Poilievre could shake up things — beyond just axing taxes — and the Conservatives are still holding a comfortable, 16-point lead in this latest survey. It should be noted that Abacus removes undecided voters from these horse-race results.
I think the hidden message from the poll is that people do not expect Poilievre to govern much differently from Trudeau.
Cosmetic change will be the order of the day.
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper feared a revolt in his Conservative caucus when, as prime minister, he decided to go ahead with compensation for residential school survivors, a newly published book reveals.
That’s part of the reason why Pierre Poilievre got in such hot water in 2008 when he made disparaging remarks about Indigenous people and questioned the point of the payments, writes journalist Andrew Lawton in his new book “Pierre Poilievre, A Political Life.”
All indicators suggest that an absolute rout is coming for the Liberals, at the hands of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada.
The next election is presently set for October 20th next year, although legislation (Bill C-65) has been introduced to delay it a week.
But Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party aren’t Poilievre’s biggest threat to forming government — it could be the unions.
Justin Trudeau gave a press conference this week about electric vehicles, but reporters took the opportunity after his remarks to ask the Prime Minister whatever they wanted.
My colleague Laura Stone stepped to the microphone.
“I want to ask you about leadership. Polls have you 20 points behind the Conservatives and it doesn’t seem to be getting better, despite your recent communications push from your budget,” she said.
She doth protest too much.
