The six candidates vying for the Conservative Party’s top job sparred in the last official debate of the leadership campaign on Wednesday — clashing over everything from the trucker convoy to bitcoin and tax cuts in a fiery matchup in a Laval, Que., banquet hall.
The two-hour debate featured pointed, personal exchanges throughout as Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, the leading right-wing candidate in this race, traded jabs with his more centrist opponents, Brampton, Ont. Mayor Patrick Brown and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.
And a Star columnist hits the fainting couch … Pierre Poilievre is inching toward the dark places where Donald Trump found votes
The perceived front-runner in the Conservative leadership race is trying to lure support from people with a shaky knowledge of the system of government in Canada, Susan Delacourt writes.
No one is going to accuse Pierre Poilievre of practising restraint in his campaign to be the next leader of the federal Conservatives.
Show him an institution and Poilievre will knock it down — the Bank of Canada, the media, anyone deemed a “gatekeeper,” or the World Economic Forum. He doesn’t just disagree with his opponents, he calls them liars.
At the risk of giving the “freedom” candidate any more ideas, it should be noted that there is one institution Poilievre hasn’t directly challenged, at least not yet — democracy itself. But if Poilievre is going to go full Donald Trump in his bid to be the next prime minister, an assault on the legitimacy of the voting system is almost inevitable.
This is what happens when you wear Hitler Glasses.
