… If I know anything about the working class, it’s that they constantly refer to themselves, in the manner of a particularly cringey museum exhibit, as “common people” who delight in primitive “festivals.” And they absolutely view dirty boots as something to preen about, like an especially successful Halloween costume.
But the bigger problem with Mr. Poilievre’s class tourism is this: He has grasped a real thing that is simmering just below a boil. Too many people feel like they can’t afford any sort of reasonable life or even pin the hopes of such a thing to their children. And many people – some included in the group above, some not – feel ignored, maligned and scolded by the current federal government.
Poilievre is a career politician, a part of our Ottawa permaclass and as the column points out he is comically out of touch with the “common man.”
I like Poilievre primarily because he isn’t Justin but I do not trust him on key issues I care about.
It’s one thing to raise money on a promise to defund the CBC, another to actually do it.
We’ve had our hopes dashed before. Yes the jury is out until he’s elected but bear in mind the CBC is part of the same Political Permaclass he belongs to.
On the question of mass immigration it’s already clear Poilievre will offer more of the same Ponzi scheme Trudeau is foisting on us.
Identity politics and mass immigration are a part of every politicos hymnal in Canada and all with rare exception belong to the UNIPARTY choir.
I wish him luck. People are getting so sick of that preening twit in Ottawa and his buddy Sideshow Singh the conservatives may just win the next election.
But please Pierre spare us the proletarian pantomime.
