On his way to the Conservative leadership, Pierre Poilievre called Jean Charest a Liberal and Patrick Brown a liar. More recently, he’s called opioid policy in British Columbia wacko and Montreal’s mayor incompetent. He’s expressed support for Freedom Convoy protesters and disdain for lobbyists. He wants to defund the CBC. Will he coarsen the national character?
If I’m being honest, I have to say I’m not particularly worried.
With a federal election that could come any day now, and the Liberal government’s public favour continually waning, some, shall we say, unorthodox media practices appear to be afoot, particularly in terms of how Pierre Poilievre is being presented to Canadian viewers. The Conservatives are always complaining about progressive media bias. This is what they mean.
h/t DS
Conservative MPs will refuse to engage with CTV and its reporters until the network acknowledges that a recent clip of leader Pierre Poilievre was “maliciously” edited.
While CTV issued an apology, Poilievre’s director of media relations Sebastian Skamski said it wasn’t good enough.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre signaled the Liberals’ carbon price and the economy will remain his prime target when Parliament resumes this week.
He painted a dystopian picture during a Sunday morning speech to his caucus, saying the Liberal government’s plans to increase the price would cause a “nuclear winter” for the economy.
Pierre Poilievre is winning the online rage war. But his playbook may be crumbling before his eyes
During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, progressives online, preaching a sunny message, generated a collective 1.5 billion views across all platforms, according to one count generated by the FWIW newsletter. It was “a huge shift” — primarily because it’s been a long time since the internet has been a positive, even fun, place to be.
The Liberal left has convinced itself that Trump is on the ropes as result of a rigged debate. Good for them.
Pierre Poilievre says the Conservatives will put forward a non-confidence motion “at the earliest possible opportunity” when Parliament resumes this fall in an effort to trigger a federal election.
The Conservative leader is calling on Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to commit to joining his party in bringing down the Trudeau government.
“It’s put up or shut up time for the NDP,” Poilievre told reporters outside Parliament Hill’s West Block on Wednesday.
The Grand Seduction. That’s how some media outlets referred to Pierre Poilievre’s many visits to Quebec this summer. It’s perhaps a reference to the 2013 movie of the same name based on the 2003 French version, “La Grande Séduction.”
The film centres around the struggling fishing village of Ste-Marie-la-Mauderne in Quebec, where all residents are on welfare and engage in charming antics to secure economic revival. This metaphor fittingly encapsulates Poilievre’s campaign trail across the province.
OTTAWA — Conservatives are doubling down on the party’s appeals to “ordinary people” this Labour Day Monday with a multi-pronged advertising campaign designed to woo workers.
A 60-second television ad celebrates “the people who rise when it is still dark” and describes a litany of problems that plague them, including crime, inflation and unaffordable housing. The ad ends on a hopeful note, with a voiceover from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre describing a “new dawn rising” where “everyone gets a fair shot at a good life.”
338 Sunday Update: The NDP is in trouble.
🔵CPC 210
🔴LPC 81
⚜️BQ 34
🟠NDP 16
🟢GPC 2[172 seats needed for a majority]
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— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) September 1, 2024
“We were raised on the faith
The center’s holding
And can’t be broken
And now that it’s started
It might not stop”
Maybe only a few Hub readers listen to Dinosaur Jr. (a grunge-era band led by guitar god J. Mascis), but I suspect many more share their worry about the degree of polarization in the political discourse of the Western world these days.
“It’s not hard to guess the reason: Quebecers are allergic to Poilievre’s style, that of intimidation, insults, and a feeling that he has never encountered a quarrel in which he did not want to get involved.”
Yet another article by the Tone Police. Ms. Telford has been busy.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would set Canada’s immigration targets based on housing, jobs and health-care data if his party forms government after the next election, accusing the Liberals of bringing in more immigrants than the country can absorb.
Mr. Poilievre spoke with reporters outside Parliament’s West Block Thursday, where he criticized this week’s “expensive” cabinet retreat in Halifax and called on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to pull his support for the minority Liberal government and trigger a federal election.
“How is my life better?” demands Kareem Lewis, a 32-year-old Canadian software engineer, after almost a decade of Liberal government. “Real wages are flat. The cost of rent as a proportion of your income has increased,” he says. And forget about buying a house. Fed up, he has moved to New York. Always a Liberal backer, he will vote Conservative in the election due next year. Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, is attracting other unlikely voters, too. He has spent much of the summer in factories from British Columbia to Newfoundland, surrounded by employees in hard hats and safety glasses, to cement his lead among working-class voters.
On Tuesday, when Doris Grinspun, the CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, told CBC that Ontario’s decision to close 10 supervised drug consumption sites is “a death sentence for people that use substances,” the federal Conservatives were quick to attack her.
Sebastian Skamski, a spokesman for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, slammed her on X: “CBC’s so called ‘expert’ (with 23 letters behind her name) deems Trudeau’s crime ridden drug dens ‘essential’ & equates them to cancer treatment centres. These are the WACKO ‘experts’ Trudeau uses to defend his drug disaster. These are the WACKO ‘expert’ voices media peddles.”
If Pierre Poilievre weren’t so unpleasant, he might get more of a hearing for his agenda. If he has one
With the Conservatives maintaining a roughly 15-point lead in the polls, some in the party are busy measuring – well, not the drapes, but maybe the mandate. Already there is excited talk of the sweeping reforms Pierre Poilievre will bring to the federal government.
Which is interesting, because the Conservative Leader himself has not proposed any. That is not to say that he has proposed no policies: He has. Most famously, he has promised to repeal the federal carbon tax, at least as it applies to consumers: He has still not said whether he would repeal the industrial version of the tax, though he has lately said he would repeal the federal Clean Fuel Regulations.
Pierre Poilievre just might be the only truly conservative politician left in the West, certainly among those leading or about to lead governments. Unlike his counterparts elsewhere, who are laser focused only on “anti-wokeness,” he has been able to marry a rejection of liberal excess with free market economics, which other conservatives have abandoned.
If he wins next year’s election and lives up to even a quarter of his promise, it will be a relief after a near decade of arguably the most obnoxiously progressive government in the world.
