MONTREAL, Que. — We are stalled in the status quo, somehow.
The re-energized Conservatives have a new leader at the helm while the Liberals are being blamed for the cost of living and rising interest rates against a stream of headlines from the Emergencies Act inquiry.
Even so, two new polls find the Liberals and Conservatives deadlocked.
Decrying high inflation and the rising cost of food, housing and fuel, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held a rare media availability on Wednesday to declare: “it feels like everything is broken in this country right now.”
Listing off “40-year high inflation,” “35 year olds living in their parents’ basements” and the “nearly 100 per cent increase in fuel prices,” Poilievre placed the blame on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, while pitching a Conservative government as the solution
As soon as Pierre Poilievre won the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, the usual pundits began rattling off the reasons why he cannot beat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the next federal election. They are wrong. As last week’s Nanos poll revealed, Poilievre has already pulled ahead of Trudeau — and his support is just going to keep growing.
I am curious to see if Junior’s Twitter support will be exposed as Bots under Musk’s reign.
Hold the front page.
Wow. And if I may — Wow-plus! This is a bombshell. Cancel the Emergencies Act inquiry. Forget the U.K.’s dance into madness. We have a problem here in Canada.
Pierre Poilievre will not be attending the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner!
Clientelism, in politics, is the art of convincing people to buy your schemes, then having them pay for the purchase with their votes. Pierre Poilièvre is revealing himself to be a skilled practitioner.
Forget about principles. They’re for gatekeepers and the “Laurentian Elite”.
Over the weekend, Poilièvre promised that if elected, Quebec would never again have to worry about a federal environmental assessment troubling one of its major projects — even those under national jurisdiction. That includes large dams on navigable and floatable waterways and First Nations lands, as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Sure Tom because tying projects up in endless environmental assessments has worked so well to date.
An invisible search engine optimization tag that was promptly removed from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube videos after its discovery doesn’t amount to a scandal. The attempt to spin it into one, however, reveals society’s contempt for men and a collective inability to cope with criticism of feminism.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has named the 71 critics and associate critics he’s tasked with holding the Liberal government to account, and his choices say a lot about the Conservatives’ strategy for the House of Commons, experts say.
It’s a long list. Poilievre has 51 critics, plus another 20 associate critics, squaring off against just 38 cabinet ministers.
Governments sometimes get accused of appointing bloated cabinets — and Poilievre could be inviting the same sort of criticism, said Conservative strategist Tim Powers.
Sounds like he’s giving a wide selection of his people a chance to rise to the occasion. Makes sense to see who makes the A-team.
Outgoing Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre needs to steer away from “fringe issues” if he aims to lead not only the party but the country.
And he thinks “[Poilievre] is doing that.” Speaking to The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Kenney said, “I think he’s really in his wheelhouse, focusing on the cost of living, inflation.”
“He understands that to become prime minister, he needs to speak to the aspirations of regular Canadians, not to fringe issues.”
Mulroney backing Conservatives’ Poilievre, but cautions he won’t win going ‘extreme right’
OTTAWA – Former prime minister Brian Mulroney told CTV’s Question Period he’s impressed with new Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre — who’s been on the job for nearly a month — but that he cautioned him to tack closer to the political centre if he hopes to win a general election.
“I thought he was very good,” Mulroney said of the first time he watched Poilievre in the House of Commons as the official leader of the Opposition. “He developed a sense of humour, and he thinks on his feet, which is indispensable for a successful opposition leader or prime minister.”
On Thursday, Justin Trudeau tried to turn the tables on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and started asking him questions.
As Pierre Poilievre stood up to ask questions about the increasing cost of a Thanksgiving dinner, Trudeau began asking questions about a Global News story that said Poilievre had been using a misogynist hidden hashtag on his popular YouTube videos.
The state of Canada’s chattering class …
From Brian Lilley "is Poilievre someone who doesn’t like women? With his wife standing by his side or introducing him at events.. that’s a tough claim to make." Brian, have you misplaced your memory chip? What misogynist hasn't used his wife as a prop, while he denies the deed?
— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) October 7, 2022
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is under pressure to explain how a hidden misogynistic phrase was used to promote his YouTube videos over the last four years.
Global News revealed Thursday that 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos included a hidden tag — #mgtow, which stands for “Men Going Their Own Way” — linked to misogynistic, mostly online communities. The tag helped promote Poilievre’s videos — such as his recent tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, videos from his leadership rallies and his messages on inflation and affordability — but was not visible to viewers.
Sabotage, ignorance or incompetence from within his team? I suspect a little of 2 & 3.
Meanwhile….
WATCH: Raucous exchange where Trudeau goes after Poilievre for YouTube hashtag who fights back, calls out funding for Laith Marouf, racist blackface costume wearing & firing of Jody Wilson-Raybould.
“We condemn misogyny always & everywhere & we ask the PM to finally do the same” pic.twitter.com/PyWy4Z9LCg
— Rowan (@canmericanized) October 6, 2022
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
A Global News analysis of 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos showed that they included a tag — hidden from viewers, but not from the videos’ publisher — used by a misogynistic online movement. The tag helps promote Poilievre’s videos among those circles, and signals to YouTube what users might be interested in the Conservative leader’s messaging.
Sabotage or Stupidity by an underling? Seems an awfully small demographic to warrant the inclusion of a dedicated hash tag and frankly I just don’t see it attracting an audience of any appreciable size. Am I wrong? Maybe. In the meantime I’ll blame Patrick Brown!
The article cites the SPLC as an “authority” so keep some salt handy.
As much as the Conservatives like to poke fun at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s past life as a drama teacher, there sure seemed to be an awful lot of theatre coming from the Tory benches this past week.
Members of the Conservative Party – which purports to be against cancel culture and ostentatious displays of wokeism – were utterly scandalized by a tweet that, by their telling, made them feel unsafe walking the halls of the House of Commons.
As I said this was a bad choice for the CPC, only play the Liberal games when you know you can win.
Less than a month into the job, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has overtaken Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the candidate seen as the best choice to lead the country, a new poll suggests.
The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found 35 per cent of Canadians surveyed believe Poilievre is the best candidate for prime minister, while 31 per cent said the same of Trudeau, who trails the new Opposition leader in a majority of provinces — including Ontario.
