A literal career politician who says he speaks for the working man. Hahahaha
He was part of the harper government that wanted to raise the retirement age. NEVER FORGET THIS. Also it would be like having trump as PM.
In late March, Poilievre had suggested during a campaign event that digital currencies could help Canadians “opt out of inflation” because they are not influenced by central banks.
That’s arguably one of his worst comments because he was finance critic under Harper, the master of economics.
Imagine if anyone took his advice then, they’d be broke.
I feel like these are rather tame choices to be honest, though I can’t recall anything specific. I just remember hearing him speak in the House years ago under Harper and thinking: “What an odious little man”.
Rather than sifting through controversial news headlines, they’d do well to sift through video archives of house debates. I seem to remember racist dog whistles and some pretty terrible things said during the Conservative push for voting “reform” and that Muslim snitch line.
He’s our Trump. Hope our country doesn’t make the same mistake as the states did in 2016
Here’s the party policies:
https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/23175001/990863517f7a575.pdf
As for a plan… why the actual fuck would he reveal anything substantial now? The CPC is His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, it’s their job to oppose. It’s not their job to come up with stuff, that’s for the governing party (the LPC) and, through the confidence and supply agreement, the NDP. Do you understand how the British Westminster system that we use works? Maybe once the election is in full swing the “no plan” argument will be a valid one, but it’s not now.
If the polls hold up and the Conservative win people should realize that the LIberal’s could have changed things dramatically by implementing Voting Reform but refused to do so.
Specifically the 155/108 Liberal MP’s getting paid at least 200k at year and their entire job is to lead this country holds a substantially higher burden then the millions of Canadians who barely spends any effort reading a news headline.
If the polls hold up and the Conservative win people should realize that the LIberal’s could have changed things dramatically by implementing Voting Reform but refused to do so
They don’t care.
If they lose, they know they’ll be back in, depending on how bad the Conservatives do, on four to eight years, likely with a majority. Both parties are quite amenable to a periodic chair-switch.
However, if they had put through electoral reform, they’d never get another majority again. They’d have to share power with other, likely left-leaning, parties, which they wouldn’t like. It would mean less power, less exclusive access to donations and reciprocation, and the ire of their donor class, who very much don’t want to see a goverment that aligns with Canadians instead of the investor class.
The Liberals would ratther lose every seat in parliament than implement electoral reform.
That one is going to be on the people. I’ve encountered a few die hard Liberals here and they’re as baffling as a Conservative loyalist.
