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PP was in hali for an axe the tax rally yesterday. Some local coverage of the event:

And while I understand Poilievre’s disdain for the CBC — any independent reporting is bad in the eyes of a politician who doesn’t want to be challenged — I don’t get why the average Conservative voter cares. As I say, the CBC is providing most of the uncontroversial but needed reporting in the rural areas where many Conservatives live. But moreover, the CBC hasn’t been very challenging of the CPC.

For example, CBC reporter Luke Ettinger credulously interviewed an attendee at the rally:

Janice Beare said discussions of gender in schools and the cost of housing were of concern to her.
“The poor young people, they haven’t got any hope,” she said. “My daughter has an art teacher that identifies as a bumblebee.”
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This is someone who is either outright lying to the reporter, or someone who is so dim-witted that she repeats her daughter’s obvious joke as truth.

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As Poilievre spoke, I realized that he in fact needs lots of fact-checking.

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Poilievre didn’t address such concrete issues, and instead relies on vibes characterized as “common sense.” There was a jab at the World Economic Forum. Another at the Bank of Canada for considering a digital currency. Tough on crime, yada yada.

Frankly, a lot of the Conservative cultural touchstones elude me — there was something about digital IDs preventing us from using the internet, which I could only understand as a pro-porn stance, but I probably have that wrong.

Oh, and the attack on Safe Injection sites.

Poilievre quite correctly explained that the opioid addiction epidemic was the creation of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, which buried research showing the hyper addictive nature of OxyContin and paid doctors to prescribe it. From there, however, Poilievre took several left turns, attacking all pharmaceutical companies and everything they do.

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He came out swinging against all vaccine mandates, which is about as irresponsible as any political leader could be, especially with the looming threat of a measles resurgence.

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He summed up the group’s fantasy future like this:

Let me paint a picture for you. It’s a picture of school children setting safely off to school in the morning — their parents no longer worried about their safety. It’s a picture of a family sitting in their living room with their doors unlocked, because they’re no longer afraid of their neighbourhood. Seniors leaving the grocery store, putting groceries in their car with change in their pockets. A shopkeeper cleans the front of his shop, knowing that he will be rewarded for the risks he is taking the rest of the day. It’s a picture of Legionnaires sweeping up a grave and leaving fresh flowers to honour the soldiers who gave their lives in battle. This is the sound of mothers yelling out to their kids, ‘it’s bedtime!’, and those kids yelling right back ‘ten more minutes!’ as they try to play some more street hockey, and then all of a sudden, quiet. And there, on a front porch, is a young couple, with a Canadian flag hanging from the railing of a home they own which they bought with a beautiful paycheque. And their eyes will meet and they look at each other in a way that only they know. All the hard work paid off. The Canadian promise is their story. Because finally we are home. These are our people. That is our country. This is our home.
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kinda seems like he's going full populist.
 
He's already said that his biggest goal is to unwind the "Trudeau legacy" wtf that means.

I can't think of a whole lot Trudeau has done over the last 8-9 years, that's kind of the fucking problem. We've had real challenges pop up and Ottawa has largely been asleep at the wheel with a few exceptions.

Pierre won't do anything good though, I'm pretty sure of that. Housing crisis will get worse (he's on record last year saying that government needs to "get out of the way" of homebuilders....I hope you like 7 figure 2500+ sq ft suburban subdivision houses that take 3-5 years to come online after funding is approved, because that's what they want to build), he'll probably take a run at the Canada Health Act to "modernize" it if he has a majority, wouldn't be surprised if he took a run at Elections Canada and StatsCan, pension age to 67....and tax cuts for job creators and "home builders".
 
MindzEye said:
He's already said that his biggest goal is to unwind the "Trudeau legacy" wtf that means.

I can't think of a whole lot Trudeau has done over the last 8-9 years, that's kind of the fucking problem. We've had real challenges pop up and Ottawa has largely been asleep at the wheel with a few exceptions.

Pierre won't do anything good though, I'm pretty sure of that. Housing crisis will get worse (he's on record last year saying that government needs to "get out of the way" of homebuilders....I hope you like 7 figure 2500+ sq ft suburban subdivision houses that take 3-5 years to come online after funding is approved, because that's what they want to build), he'll probably take a run at the Canada Health Act to "modernize" it if he has a majority, wouldn't be surprised if he took a run at Elections Canada and StatsCan, pension age to 67....and tax cuts for job creators and "home builders".
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yeah it'll be populist piecemeal bullshit.

won't solve any actual problems, will likely make the bad ones much worse. will claim to be solving all sorts of problems, most of which aren't actual ones or are culture war bullshit.

I suspect he'll adopt some of his former mentor Steve's incrementalism as well, although that likely depends on whether or not he gets a majority.

but Libs have plenty of time to introduce PP and his ideas to the population. right now he's just, 'shiny new leader who is not JT' and I think that's where much of his support comes from. show the people what he's really like and maybe some of it bleeds back progressive.

that, or fix the affordability and housing crisis. but I doubt that happens before the next election.
 
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