Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Pierre Poilievre, says Don Martin in a column for CTVNews.ca. But Poilievre’s an able communicator, and this weekend’s Conservative convention is a golden opportunity for him to sell himself as PM-in-waiting.
Hes’ a hypocrite of the highest order; a career politician that he ranted should not entrench themselves in our institutions in his early twenties before becoming an MP himself in his mid-twenties. He welcomed the Convey into Ottawa by handing out Coffee and Donuts. He recommends putting your money into Bitcoin, and those that followed his advice saw savings disappear when the coin crashed. He rails against the CBC being government funded while he himself, is largely government supported: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpchk3s4hU
The joke goes that you tell a politician is lying because they are moving their lips. If you want to know the truth, just pay attention to who donates. We made fun of Scheer for being in the pocket of ‘big milk’ and this feckless twit is receiving donations from real estate executives while claiming he’s going to reverse course on our housing crisis: https://pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among-top-donors-to-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/
A vote for the CPC is a vote for a party lead by someone that doesn’t care about the people voting for him and will make years of poor decisions.
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… doesn’t feel your pain, but he’s sure good at communicating it
Isn’t that always been the conservative platform?
The dumb part is not that the conservatives run on this platform every election cycle
The dumb part is that the country falls for it every time
If you get beaten with a baseball bat every time you walk into that one alley way and you just keep going back there knowing you are going to get beaten again … who’s the dumb person? … the guy with the baseball bat waiting for people to show up at his alleyway to beat? … or the guy who keeps going to that alleyway knowing he is going to get beaten every time?
They are falling for it because housing issues have gotten so bad.
The NDP are the only ones that say they will limit immigration and the only ones that are pushing for housing
The Cons just acknowledged there’s a problem but avoid questions that ask if they will do anything about it
I beg to differ! Ford keeps talking about it even when asked about -ahem- different things.
I meant Federally since they are in charge of immigration
Yeah, I figured. I just couldn’t resist taking a stab at the latest scandal 🤷
Awesome article. Funny, serious, smart and insightful at the same time. It cracked me up and worried me all at once.
“And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle.”
How indeed. I look on transfixed…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau with his modest drama teacher resume, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Poilievre, who did little more than spend a couple years as a political staffer on Parliament Hill before becoming an MP.
And there’s no small irony to see Poilievre leading the feel-your-pain charge to find affordable housing while living in relative luxury of the well-staffed Official Opposition Leader’s mansion courtesy of taxpayers.
Of course, it’s great fun to bash the Bank of Canada governor for boosting interest rates to tame inflation, pledge to axe the carbon tax and blame demon gatekeepers for every bureaucratic obstruction to throwing up affordable housing boom on every vacant lot.
And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle.
So far, Poilievre seems disinclined to pivot policy in any direction, partly because his own MPs are worried their nominations to carry the Conservative banner into the next election will face the wrath of forces further right should party positions soften.
But as Poilievre reigns over his first convention, there’s little doubt that the snivelling political operative who regularly called me 20 years ago to complain about negative coverage of then-boss Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day is grown up and ready for a prime-time showdown.
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I can’t get over the irony of Alpha males voting for cool Millhouse.
Wow what a shit article.
Edit: tell me how you really feel Lemmy, he’s likely going to win the next election even if it’s a minority.
How so? It’s just laying out the fact that the man has never had a real job, or struggled with cost of living.
It’s an opinion article, that’s pretty standard stuff.
Poilievre was adopted to parents of modest means who had to sell their house in the crash of the 80’s.
Wonder if Trudeau had silver cutlery in the 80’s.
Boo fuckin hoo. The guy is a con man and even if that is true it doesn’t change the fact that he’s never worked a real job nor does he understand the plight of Canadians in this day and age.
And Trudeau and Freeland do?
When there is no factual argument to be made, people like you always fall back on whataboutism.
Great addition to the conversation, your retort has made me see the error of my ways.
“Great addition to the conversation” says the guy who brings up Trudeau 100 times in a post about Poilievre.
If you vote for Harper’s finance critic that said to invest in Bitcoin to avoid inflation, that’s on you bud.
Some 🧀 to go with your whine.
Is that the depth of your critique?
And they raised a conniving political predator who will sell us all out so that he can join the moneyed elites.
What’s your point?
Cool, he’s also a lying scumbag that will do anything to enrich himself, and get himself more power.
Or do you mean the time he dismissed the attorney general for not playing ball on the SNC Lavalin affair.
Like calling an election in the middle of a pandemic because your numbers are falling fast?
It’s hilarious how cons think I automatically like our current PM because I think Skippy is an idiot. I don’t care about anything you have to list, because I’m not talking about Trudeau. If the best defence you have is to attack some other guy, MAN y’all are in worse shape than you realize.
Skippy supported a group that was attempting to overthrow a democratically elected government, and constant pushes bullshit conspiracy theories.
I’ve voted NDP more than I have conservative. I dislike many things about Poilievre, but I believe he’s got the best chance of reigning in inflation and housing issues. He’s proposing playing hardball and that plays with a lot of Canadians right now who are feeling the absolute shitshow of the last 8 years.
Again, I don’t care how you’ve voted. If you’re considering voting for the cons with him in charge you’re an idiot. Flat out. Conservatives only ever make things worse, every single time.
You’re either Conservative or Canadian. Poilievre supported actual traitors to Canada. Fuck the domestic speculator who wants to make life harder for the working class.
I fail to see how that’s different or worse than the conservatives proroging parliament to prevent an unfavourable election.
Or wait what about that one where he used Morneau as a fall guy for the scammy charity his family was deeply involved in.
I feel frustrated that we’re going to choose a trainwreck of a government that only cares about slogans and making life worse for workers. Their party is the political equivalent of nihilists right now and they don’t actually care about anything except wearing a CPC pin and tallying votes. Bitcoin Milhouse was a disgrace as finance critic and he’s going to be an awful leader if he wins. I haven’t always hated all CPC leadership, but this crop is undisputably utter shit.
This is happening primarily because the centrist party is too proud to drop their leader after the last election clearly showed voters were tired of their leadership. They’ve been slow to act on important issues like housing and never even bothered playing goalie against criticisms that they don’t understand finances. Now that we’re in financially hard times, that reputation has metastisized into a full blown cancer that will kill them, but it’s too late for treatment, so we’ll just get to see the Liberals get more desperate and play identity politics during the election.
And the NDP won’t dump their leadership either. Nobody really likes Jagmeet Singh, he’s not a low/middle class and doesn’t come from that background, but he comes across like he pretends to. Their policies last election were foolish and would have pushed the parts of Canada’s economy that we actually do well south of the border. They need a better grassroots candidate and to rethink how the economy works and match it with Canada’s talents. I applaud them on wanting to improve housing but I don’t trust them to win or do it.
The next election we’re doomed to repeat the following outcome: left/center votes split to NDP, the liberals lose a ton of seats (see Ontario), people feeling the financial pinch vote Conservative to try and soften it.
Then watch what happens to environmental regulations and healthcare, because the conservatives controlling all levels will drop it promising lower taxes (wait for abortion to be deemed elective and not covered anymore or supported in public hospitals for example). Then we’ll all start voting Liberal or NDP at the provincial level when we realize we didn’t actually want to gur our social systems, and we’ll run that way for two more election cycles, then we’ll rotate back.
I would love to support the NDP, I’m a union tradesman and they used to be my party. Jack Layton should have been PM in 2011, and it still hurts thinking of how quickly we lost him shortly thereafter. Jagmeet doesn’t do it for me, you’re right he comes off as a pretender trying to lower himself to be one of “us”.
I’m optimistic on Poilievre playing hardball with the country for what I think matters most in this election which is inflation and housing. I don’t like everything he has to say, especially the crypto bullshit which thankfully he dropped, but maybe he and the conservatives are what we need to get things back on track.
Maybe I’ve missed it but has Poilievre proposed anything for a housing or inflation fix? Most of what I’ve seen has just been platitudes about how Canadians are hurting and Trudeau is to blame. Obviously not untrue, people are suffering and Trudeau hasn’t done enough but saying that is not a solution.
Or I missed his proposals; I try not to get too focused on candidates this far before an election.
The plan so far is to build 1 million homes in three years. They plan on attaining this by playing hardball with those who get in the way, municipalities and the NIMBYS who govern them are going to have federal funding withheld for getting in the way of new housing starts. There’s also going to be extra funds granted for jurisdictions that go beyond the “quota”. A lot of our housing issues are due to red tape and local government interference. To paraphrase, he’s said if those municipalities don’t want to play ball that’s fine, but their easy federal cash is going to be given to those that make it easy to build housing. As for inflation if I recall correctly he wants to limit new carbon taxes, I’d have to look up if he wants to reverse all or some of what is already in place.
Bro shut the fuck up. “Build more homes” won’t do shit unless they’re affordable, which they 100% will not be from the cons. Look at Doug Ford for exactly what they’ll be doing. They’ll blast through environmental protections and force municipalities to build costly, unsustainable sprawl that will get bought up by corporations and speculators trying to make a profit.
As for inflation, carbon taxes have 0 impact whatsoever. Inflation is being driven by corporate greed, which will get even worse with the cons.
I have a bridge to sell you. None of that shit will be affordable. Ontario is a good example of the damage this fucker will do.
He gave us dental care so at least he’s pretending to understand the working class. Or at the very least doing what is proven to be cheaper in the long run
Who going to back him in a minority government?
Don’t fall for this scam artist. He’s the embodiment of a career politician who thrives on making the working class more poor. He’s a god damn speculator and his 9 years in power helped create the situation we’re in.
I genuinely can’t tell if you are talking about about Poilievre or Trudeau.
