Pierre Poilievre’s makeover is the latest instalment of two-faced conservatism—red meat for the base, porridge for the general population—until they win.
HALIFAX—There are a lot of things to be said about Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s $3-million makeover, few of them flattering.
It is cynical, it is transparently manipulative, and it is comical. No T-shirt is ever going to turn Poilievre into Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This is hate porn on par with Der Starrer.
Is Pierre Poilievre a pit bull or a golden retriever? We asked Canadians what they think of the Conservative leader — and here’s what they said
The results suggest he’s well-liked by those who think they know him well — but more Canadians feel they don’t, and the impressions they have of him at this point signal challenges ahead.
The research comes at what the Conservatives hope will be a turning point in that respect: the launch of a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to better position him as an alternative to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Frankly the article is a confused mess. Almost as if they’re hoping you won’t dig too deep or make comparisons with Junior.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded in retaliation to a reporter’s accusation during a press conference in Prince Edward Island on Aug. 16 that he’s attempting to “court the far-right,” saying it has no basis in reality.
“I’m sorry that your question seems to be based on a false premise. You can’t even tell me who these experts are. It sounds like it’s just a CBC smear job,” Mr. Poilievre said.
Watch as a journalist tells Pierre Poilievre that his comments have been characterized as “dog whistling to the far-right” by experts without being able to provide one example of an expert ever saying that. pic.twitter.com/cgoes2imD4
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) August 16, 2023
Pierre Poilievre has avoided talking about gender identity politics. Here’s why he soon may have no choice
Grassroots Conservatives are set to push their party into a political debate around gender identity that their leader has so far tried to avoid, with resolutions on “single-sex spaces” and gender-affirming medical care to be debated at next month’s convention.
OTTAWA — Grassroots Conservatives are set to push their party into a political debate around gender identity that Leader Pierre Poilievre has so far tried to avoid, with resolutions on “single-sex spaces” and gender-affirming medical care to be debated at next month’s party convention.
The resolutions echo some of the themes playing out at the highest levels of U.S. politics, where so-called “bathroom bills,” and bans on medical care for transgender youth are being called an “all-out attack” on the freedoms of LGBTQ+ individuals.
It’s funny how the Star ignores the LGB without the T movement and implies that refusing to sexually mutilate children is a bad thing on account it’s what them barbaric ‘Muricans think.
It’s been a big week in America. A grand jury in Atlanta indicted former U.S. President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. Trump’s fourth indictment adds 13 felony charges to his rap sheet, including a charge of criminal conspiracy. Yet polls show Trump would still handily win the Republican nomination, and possibly the presidency, in 2024.
None of Canada’s mainstream parties care much for the working class.
Instruction by the BOC to the corporate class to fight inflation by denying working people wage increases.
Wages already artificially low thanks to suppression by mass immigration.
Wages so low they can’t afford to rent or own homes and still Big Business wants to import even more wage slaves because there’s money to be made in critical shortages.
Carbon taxes that accomplish nothing but increased costs across the board and fail to change the weather in China.
Pierre needs to give sober thought to immigration policy. Without that he is just another UNIPARTY candidate.
When it comes to analyzing Conservative political success, our commentariat has a massive blind spot
On May 2, 2011, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives won a majority government. That was what happened, but in the days following election day, it wasn’t really the dominant narrative. Instead, commentary tended to focus on related phenomena. There had been an “orange wave”, with the NDP scooping up dozens of seats in Quebec and forming the official opposition in Parliament—their leader Jack Layton was a star. The Liberals had cratered, plummeting to only 34 seats in the House of Commons—their leader Michael Ignatieff was a dud.
Pierre Poilievre wants to rebuild a ‘broken’ Canada but first must fix his own image
OTTAWA – A pile of puzzle pieces spills onto a table.
“Everything feels broken,” Pierre Poilievre says in a voice-over as the shot tightens in on the federal Conservative leader’s face as he appears to be concentrating on sorting the pieces in his palm.
He has repeated that line countless times in speeches, on social media and at rallies, but now he is doing so in a slick 29-second advertisement. It is one of several the party rolled out this week as part of a campaign, worth more than $3 million, throughout the rest of the summer and into the fall.
… If I know anything about the working class, it’s that they constantly refer to themselves, in the manner of a particularly cringey museum exhibit, as “common people” who delight in primitive “festivals.” And they absolutely view dirty boots as something to preen about, like an especially successful Halloween costume.
But the bigger problem with Mr. Poilievre’s class tourism is this: He has grasped a real thing that is simmering just below a boil. Too many people feel like they can’t afford any sort of reasonable life or even pin the hopes of such a thing to their children. And many people – some included in the group above, some not – feel ignored, maligned and scolded by the current federal government.
Poilievre is a career politician, a part of our Ottawa permaclass and as the column points out he is comically out of touch with the “common man.”
I like Poilievre primarily because he isn’t Justin but I do not trust him on key issues I care about.
It’s one thing to raise money on a promise to defund the CBC, another to actually do it.
We’ve had our hopes dashed before. Yes the jury is out until he’s elected but bear in mind the CBC is part of the same Political Permaclass he belongs to.
On the question of mass immigration it’s already clear Poilievre will offer more of the same Ponzi scheme Trudeau is foisting on us.
Identity politics and mass immigration are a part of every politicos hymnal in Canada and all with rare exception belong to the UNIPARTY choir.
I wish him luck. People are getting so sick of that preening twit in Ottawa and his buddy Sideshow Singh the conservatives may just win the next election.
But please Pierre spare us the proletarian pantomime.
Things keep looking up for the federal Conservatives under leader Pierre Poilievre. Everything for now seems to be heading in the right direction for him to become the next prime minister.
A recent news feature in The Hill Times highlights the all-important numbers of polling and fundraising: “The Conservative Party has raked in roughly $9.5-million more than the governing Liberals so far in the first half of 2023, and combined with recent polling showing the Tories with a nearly 10-point lead, ‘alarm bells should be going off at Liberal HQ,’ says Abacus Data CEO David Coletto.”
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre blasts diversity, equity and inclusion ‘garbage’
During a recent encounter with voters, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party declared he would reject all involvement with certain liberal ideologies, describing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as “garbage.”
That’s the equivalent of killing a baby seal for fun to Canada’s Liberal-Left. This happened on the 28th? No WalkBack?
OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative leadership campaign paid for the lawyer who helped a whistleblower bring down archrival Patrick Brown, the Star has learned.
The whistleblower’s allegation that Brown broke election law ultimately led to him being disqualified from the race last July, transforming the leadership contest into a coronation for Poilievre, who won a decisive first-ballot victory last September.
Pierre Poilievre wants to look like a hot, strapping man of the people. He won’t. It can’t be done. But the advisers of the federal Conservative Party leader demanded a makeover and events unfolded.
They got rid of his glasses — whether due to contacts or surgery we don’t know — and gave him T-shirts to wear under unstructured (stretchy, unlined) blazers, jeans, and summertime Tom Cruise-style aviators.
Now he looks like a man who forgot his glasses and had to assemble a vacation wardrobe after the airline lost his luggage.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he apologized to an Ontario woman after he called the home she is renting a “shack” and used it as an example of everything that’s wrong with the Canadian housing market during a stop in Niagara Falls.
With little fanfare, the House of Commons passed legislation last month to formally establish a federal child-care program.
The bill’s passage was never really in doubt. Between Liberal and NDP MPs, the government had more than enough votes. But it’s not every day the House agrees to create a major new social program (the bill still needs to pass the Senate).
Almost as notable as the bill’s passage is the fact that the vote was unanimous — 315 to 0.
One poll showing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives ahead of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals is interesting, but it looks like we are seeing a trend. Ipsos is the latest polling firm to show a significant lead for the Conservatives over the Liberals when it comes to the national popular vote.
But …
Federal @338Canada Model – Most Seats Chances:
LPC: 50%
CPC: 49%– July 2, 2023 –
Check out the model here: https://t.co/PH3p7jLQWa pic.twitter.com/eQa92DRQcC
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) July 3, 2023
h/t Mauser
