“When I’m prime minister, I will only do things that workers and consumers have been convinced are good for them. So, in the future, businesses that want a policy decision made are not just going to have to convince me that it’s the right thing, they’re going to have to convince workers and consumers,” he said.
“I’m not interested in a free lunch over at the Rideau Club.”
Mass Immigration was never mentioned by Poilievre if the Star story is accurate.
Pierre Poilievre has already dubbed the next trek to the polls as “the carbon tax election.” In reality, though, it is more likely to be “the Pierre Poilievre election” — a referendum on the Canadian public’s comfort level with the leader of the official Opposition.
On Wednesday, Pierre Poilievre stood in the House of Commons, noted “media reports about a terrorist attack at the border in Niagara (Falls),” and asked if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had any information he could share. The prime minster did not, to no one’s surprise, the incident having only just occurred.
Later in the afternoon, American officials said they were pretty sure the fiery one-car crash had just been a bizarre accident. And back we all went to finding serious solutions for Canada’s many serious problems.
Media fails Canadians by giving a free pass to Pierre Poilievre
If recent opinion polls are right, Pierre Poilievre will be Canada’s next prime minister, easily defeating Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in an election that could come less than a year from now.
Those same polls also indicate Poilievre and his Conservatives will likely form a majority government, which would see him in office for four years with the power to alter Canada in dramatic ways.
But what do you really know about what Poilievre would do as prime minister beyond killing the federal carbon tax? Do you know anything about how he would fix the housing crisis or tackle inflation, health care, interest rates, the environment, regional alienation?
The polls continue to worsen for Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party. Recent numbers and projections from Abacus Data indicate that their last electoral stronghold in Quebec may be beginning to weaken, which could turn what is already looking like a very challenging electoral environment for the prime minister into a disaster.
The Liberals have faced such routs before. In 1930, 1958, 1984 and 2011 the Liberal party was on the receiving end of an electoral shellacking the likes of which political parties don’t always survive. Remarkably, the Grits returned to power with aplomb in each circumstance.
Pierre Poilievre is not a big fan of the media — which is maybe surprising, given all of the positive coverage and poll results for the Conservative leader this fall.
Turn to any sort of political media over the past few weeks, and the good news for Poilievre leaps out in the headlines. There have been countless stories about whether Justin Trudeau is (or should be) stepping down; weekly reports of the Conservatives widening the polling gap with the Liberals, and a flurry of pieces about Liberal worries going from a whisper to a roar.
OTTAWA — Turns out “no glasses” may have been the right call.
When the team close to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mulled earlier this year over how to help him connect with Canadians, a debate ensued about whether to ditch the glasses he’d worn for years in favour of a different look.
The Star is getting weirdly obsessive.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an exemption for three years that only applies to home heating oil.
The federal government announced last week that it is increasing the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians and lifting the carbon price off home heating oil entirely for the next three years.
I’m reasonably sure that Don Urquhart, editor of the Times Chronicle newspaper in the South Okanagan, is not a cretin. Unfortunately, this week he is playing one very convincingly on the internet for an audience of millions, and he cast himself in the part.
This Pierre Poilievre interview is going viral
Don Urquhart of the Times Chronicle didn't seem prepared for this interview. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/aykmcQS1iw
— Proud to be Canadian (@PTBCanadian) October 18, 2023
If there’s any fun to be had in contemplating a future with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, it’s what will change should he win a majority government.
A major rewind in federal policies is already taking shape.
This was foreshadowed ahead of last week’s surprising Supreme Court decision to declare big chunks of the federal Impact Assessment Act to be an unconstitutional infringement on Alberta’s jurisdiction.
Fantastic.
The Liberal/NDP coalition think this exchange is a "gotcha" upsetting @PierrePoilievre.
Pierre is calm & reasonable.
It shows ignorance and dishonesty of media who can't back up their allegations & insert heavy bias into their reporting. pic.twitter.com/P0NNdIgzv3
— Richard Klagsbrun (@anunsafespace) October 16, 2023
Pierre Poilievre’s inner circle divided over how to tackle gender issues, sources say
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s advisers are divided on the position the party should take on issues of gender identity and diversity, multiple Conservative sources told Radio-Canada.
While some Conservatives see questions of gender and identity as matters of principle, or as opportunities to make political gains, others fear that the polarizing issue could turn some voters against them in the next election campaign and distract from the pocketbook issues that have been the focus of Poilievre’s messaging.
Radio-Canada spoke with about ten Conservatives anonymously, to allow them to express themselves freely.
It’s not a polarising issue among normal people, to suggest otherwise is just CBC projection.
Don’t forget that the CBC supports pedophilia.
Men are not women.
“Gender affirming health care” is a crime. See how easy that is?
OTTAWA – When Pierre Poilievre pitches the Conservative party to Muslim Canadians, he talks about “faith, family and freedom.”
For months he has been pointing out what he sees as their overlapping values during visits to mosques, at community celebrations, with businesses and in conversations with ethnic media outlets.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is defending the caption on photos he posted to social media on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation after Liberal cabinet minister Marc Miller accused him of misidentifying Inuit people as Algonquin.
On Saturday, Poilievre posted two photos to X, formerly Twitter, of himself meeting with three Inuit people wearing traditional clothing, with the caption that he was “honoured to join the Algonquin Elders and leaders at the eternal flame to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.”
The Liberals really tried to make this worse than Hitler.
In Justin Trudeau’s rapidly imploding world, everything sucks.
In a rare moment of reality-reflecting candour, the usually-scripted prime minister said as much to the New York Times last week.
“It really sucks right now. Like, everything sucks for people, even in Canada,” he told the editorial board. “People are mad . . . it’s a tough time . . . a sense of optimism is gone right now.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s polling momentum continues to chug along with 40 per cent of Canadians saying he’s the best choice to be prime minister, according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News.
Poilievre’s favourables on this question are up five points from a year ago. The number of respondents who think Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the best choice remains static year-over-year at 31 per cent.
