Conservative Party

Yes, Pierre Poilievre and anything he says are a threat to your livelihood.

Watching the Trump administration hunt down adversaries and undocumented migrants, Canada’s political class is utterly terrified. They worry the same thing could happen to them here, under a Conservative government.

They are particularly concerned about recent words from Pierre Poilievre, during an interview he gave on the Northern Perspective podcast.

OTTAWA — After days of backlash over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments on the RCMP, a string of his MPs lined up in support of the leader on Wednesday and pushed back against the controversy itself.

Usually quiet as they enter their weekly caucus meeting, a handful of Conservative MPs stopped to voice their support for Poilievre as well as the national force itself, whose leadership the Conservative leader called “despicable” in an interview aired last week, which he later clarified to say he was speaking about its past commissioner.

After Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blasted RCMP leadership on a podcast, some party members are questioning whether they will continue supporting him.

Five Conservative caucus members who spoke to Radio-Canada said Poilievre has not changed his message enough since the last election campaign and is not projecting an image befitting a prime minister.

Radio-Canada is not naming the sources so they can speak freely about internal party matters.

Some unknown sources.

It’s not clear to me whether the mask slipped and Pierre Poilievre misspoke, or whether he genuinely believes there is a road to victory by parroting Donald Trump’s politics of grievance.

On the Northern Perspective podcast, the Conservative leader called the RCMP’s leadership “despicable” for what he called a cover-up of Liberal misadventures. “Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have involved jail time,” he said, specifically referring to the former prime minister’s vacation on the Aga Khan’s island in 2016 and the efforts to influence then attorney general Jody Wilson Raybould in the SNC Lavalin affair in 2018.

Everybody’s in on the act. Is it genuine opposition or just few cranks?

“We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms, which are our proud heritage … We cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.”

These are not the words of some left-wing activist. They were spoken by Progressive Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker. Long before Pierre Trudeau enshrined our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Diefenbaker was Canada’s champion of equality, passing the federal Bill of Rights in 1960.

The Star continues its 5th Columnist Pseudo-Conservative Jihad.

As the federal government prepares its long-anticipated budget in November, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would like to see “billions of dollars” in cuts.

“There needs to be billions of dollars of reductions in the federal bureaucracy,” Poilievre said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday.

Poilievre also said the federal government “should cut the budget for consultants by at least $12 billion.”

Poilievre can’t win on this issue.

We’ve already seen Carney backtrack on his earlier promise to make serious cuts.

Face it unionized government bureaucracy at all levels is an important vote bloc. Another of Canada’s 3rd Rails.

The problem for Canadians is the MSM has in large part become part of the Federal Bureaucracy thanks to government press subsidies.

Consequently the issue of civil service reductions will always be portrayed as wrongheaded, a danger to Canadians and its proponents heartless. 

Pierre Poilievre is about to return to the national stage, with his election loss bestowing upon him a new depth of understanding of his ultimate role as prime minister of Canada. Often, it is through loss and setbacks that we learn our greatest lessons.

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Soon, Canadians will reflect on the period in Canada between former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament in January 2025, to the end of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s summer vacation this Sept. 15 — far from the reality of an in-session Parliament — as a sort of Canadian political furlough.