OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an exemption for three years that only applies to home heating oil.
The federal government announced last week that it is increasing the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians and lifting the carbon price off home heating oil entirely for the next three years.
I’m reasonably sure that Don Urquhart, editor of the Times Chronicle newspaper in the South Okanagan, is not a cretin. Unfortunately, this week he is playing one very convincingly on the internet for an audience of millions, and he cast himself in the part.
This Pierre Poilievre interview is going viral
Don Urquhart of the Times Chronicle didn't seem prepared for this interview. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/aykmcQS1iw
— Proud to be Canadian (@PTBCanadian) October 18, 2023
If there’s any fun to be had in contemplating a future with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, it’s what will change should he win a majority government.
A major rewind in federal policies is already taking shape.
This was foreshadowed ahead of last week’s surprising Supreme Court decision to declare big chunks of the federal Impact Assessment Act to be an unconstitutional infringement on Alberta’s jurisdiction.
Fantastic.
The Liberal/NDP coalition think this exchange is a "gotcha" upsetting @PierrePoilievre.
Pierre is calm & reasonable.
It shows ignorance and dishonesty of media who can't back up their allegations & insert heavy bias into their reporting. pic.twitter.com/P0NNdIgzv3
— Richard Klagsbrun (@anunsafespace) October 16, 2023
Pierre Poilievre’s inner circle divided over how to tackle gender issues, sources say
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s advisers are divided on the position the party should take on issues of gender identity and diversity, multiple Conservative sources told Radio-Canada.
While some Conservatives see questions of gender and identity as matters of principle, or as opportunities to make political gains, others fear that the polarizing issue could turn some voters against them in the next election campaign and distract from the pocketbook issues that have been the focus of Poilievre’s messaging.
Radio-Canada spoke with about ten Conservatives anonymously, to allow them to express themselves freely.
It’s not a polarising issue among normal people, to suggest otherwise is just CBC projection.
Don’t forget that the CBC supports pedophilia.
Men are not women.
“Gender affirming health care” is a crime. See how easy that is?
OTTAWA – When Pierre Poilievre pitches the Conservative party to Muslim Canadians, he talks about “faith, family and freedom.”
For months he has been pointing out what he sees as their overlapping values during visits to mosques, at community celebrations, with businesses and in conversations with ethnic media outlets.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is defending the caption on photos he posted to social media on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation after Liberal cabinet minister Marc Miller accused him of misidentifying Inuit people as Algonquin.
On Saturday, Poilievre posted two photos to X, formerly Twitter, of himself meeting with three Inuit people wearing traditional clothing, with the caption that he was “honoured to join the Algonquin Elders and leaders at the eternal flame to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.”
The Liberals really tried to make this worse than Hitler.
In Justin Trudeau’s rapidly imploding world, everything sucks.
In a rare moment of reality-reflecting candour, the usually-scripted prime minister said as much to the New York Times last week.
“It really sucks right now. Like, everything sucks for people, even in Canada,” he told the editorial board. “People are mad . . . it’s a tough time . . . a sense of optimism is gone right now.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s polling momentum continues to chug along with 40 per cent of Canadians saying he’s the best choice to be prime minister, according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News.
Poilievre’s favourables on this question are up five points from a year ago. The number of respondents who think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the best choice remains static year-over-year at 31 per cent.
Just days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the astonishing allegation that Canada has “credible intelligence” linking agents of the Indian government to the killing of a Canadian citizen, the scandal has scarcely been mentioned during question period in the House of Commons.
There might be a good reason for that, observers say.
“There’s a lot of landmines here,” said Shakir Chambers, a former Conservative Party staffer and now a principal at Earnscliffe Strategies.
OTTAWA – Conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on Parliament Hill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle LGBTQ+ issues.
The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the message sent to members of Pierre Poilievre’s caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.
That was cowardly. Unlike Max.
There’s a massive crowd this morning at the Ottawa #1MillionMarch4Children and the PPC is there to say we must protect our kids against radical gender ideology! pic.twitter.com/mWOpr3ad7t
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 20, 2023
Pierre Poilievre‘s address to the federal Conservative party conference on Sept. 8 in Quebec City was one of the most effective and important political speeches in this country in many years. It was amusing, hard-hitting, well delivered, comprehensive, and except for Brian Mulroney and the Trudeaus, Poilievre is the most fluently bilingual leader any Canadian political party has had since Louis St. Laurent. The most important aspect of it was that it was an authentic conservative speech skillfully crafted to attract broad support. Except for Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer, the federal Conservative and Progressive Conservative leaders since George drew (who retired in 1956), were only marginally to the right of the Liberals.
Out here in the far reaches of the American empire, it’s always gratifying and more than a little thrilling when people in the imperial capital take notice of us. Last week, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat wrote about wokeness in the Anglosphere and though he started with how James Bond has gone woke in the latest Bond novel (“On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” written not by Ian Fleming, who died in 1964, but by one Charlie Higson), the subject of woke Canada entered soon enough.
OTTAWA—For the Liberals to win an election, a seasoned Conservative organizer mused the other morning, they need to fall in love with their leader.
Conservatives? They need to fall in line.
The two Conservative leaders before Pierre Poilievre grappled with a party that never fully united around the boss.
Pierre Poilievre delivered an epic stemwinder to the Conservative Party faithful in Quebec City on Friday. He threw in every simplistic solution he’s been touting for years.
Canadians should start paying more attention to his nostrums and begin asking tough questions. Those are the types of questions that Poilievre likes to avoid because, in his view, journalists who ask them are part of a conspiracy against him.
I had the opportunity to work across the aisle from Poilievre for over a decade. They can lose the glasses, drop the tie, slow the cadence and reduce the Brylcreem. Those of us who got to know his overheated demagoguery firsthand know that nothing will have really changed — and that’s the danger.
The Conservative party has set its target on the Bloc Québécois and the fight for Quebec votes may get ugly.
The party’s convention was centre stage for leader Pierre Poilievre’s dual strategy this weekend — a charm offensive towards soft nationalists and an aggressive campaign against the Bloc, which holds the seats the Tories may need to form a majority government.
