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submitted 2 years ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Pierre Poilievre, says Don Martin in a column for CTVNews.ca. But Poilievre's an able communicator, and this weekend's Conservative convention is a golden opportunity for him to sell himself as PM-in-waiting.

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[-] Splitdipless@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 years ago

Hes' a hypocrite of the highest order; a career politician that he ranted should not entrench themselves in our institutions in his early twenties before becoming an MP himself in his mid-twenties. He welcomed the Convey into Ottawa by handing out Coffee and Donuts. He recommends putting your money into Bitcoin, and those that followed his advice saw savings disappear when the coin crashed. He rails against the CBC being government funded while he himself, is largely government supported: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpchk3s4hU

The joke goes that you tell a politician is lying because they are moving their lips. If you want to know the truth, just pay attention to who donates. We made fun of Scheer for being in the pocket of 'big milk' and this feckless twit is receiving donations from real estate executives while claiming he's going to reverse course on our housing crisis: https://pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among-top-donors-to-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/

A vote for the CPC is a vote for a party lead by someone that doesn't care about the people voting for him and will make years of poor decisions.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

.... doesn't feel your pain, but he's sure good at communicating it

Isn't that always been the conservative platform?

The dumb part is not that the conservatives run on this platform every election cycle

The dumb part is that the country falls for it every time

If you get beaten with a baseball bat every time you walk into that one alley way and you just keep going back there knowing you are going to get beaten again ... who's the dumb person? .. the guy with the baseball bat waiting for people to show up at his alleyway to beat? .. or the guy who keeps going to that alleyway knowing he is going to get beaten every time?

[-] moormaan@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Awesome article. Funny, serious, smart and insightful at the same time. It cracked me up and worried me all at once.

"And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle."

How indeed. I look on transfixed...

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow what a shit article.

Edit: tell me how you really feel Lemmy, he’s likely going to win the next election even if it’s a minority.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

How so? It's just laying out the fact that the man has never had a real job, or struggled with cost of living.

It's an opinion article, that's pretty standard stuff.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Poilievre was adopted to parents of modest means who had to sell their house in the crash of the 80’s.

Wonder if Trudeau had silver cutlery in the 80’s.

[-] nicktron@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Boo fuckin hoo. The guy is a con man and even if that is true it doesn't change the fact that he's never worked a real job nor does he understand the plight of Canadians in this day and age.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

And Trudeau and Freeland do?

[-] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

When there is no factual argument to be made, people like you always fall back on whataboutism.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Great addition to the conversation, your retort has made me see the error of my ways.

[-] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Some 🧀 to go with your whine.

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Great addition to the conversation" says the guy who brings up Trudeau 100 times in a post about Poilievre.

If you vote for Harper's finance critic that said to invest in Bitcoin to avoid inflation, that's on you bud.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago

Is that the depth of your critique?

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

And they raised a conniving political predator who will sell us all out so that he can join the moneyed elites.

What's your point?

[-] jcrm@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Cool, he's also a lying scumbag that will do anything to enrich himself, and get himself more power.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Or do you mean the time he dismissed the attorney general for not playing ball on the SNC Lavalin affair.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Like calling an election in the middle of a pandemic because your numbers are falling fast?

[-] jcrm@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

It's hilarious how cons think I automatically like our current PM because I think Skippy is an idiot. I don't care about anything you have to list, because I'm not talking about Trudeau. If the best defence you have is to attack some other guy, MAN y'all are in worse shape than you realize.

Skippy supported a group that was attempting to overthrow a democratically elected government, and constant pushes bullshit conspiracy theories.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I’ve voted NDP more than I have conservative. I dislike many things about Poilievre, but I believe he’s got the best chance of reigning in inflation and housing issues. He’s proposing playing hardball and that plays with a lot of Canadians right now who are feeling the absolute shitshow of the last 8 years.

[-] jcrm@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Again, I don't care how you've voted. If you're considering voting for the cons with him in charge you're an idiot. Flat out. Conservatives only ever make things worse, every single time.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago
[-] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Aaannnd that doesn't apply here.

[-] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

You're either Conservative or Canadian. Poilievre supported actual traitors to Canada. Fuck the domestic speculator who wants to make life harder for the working class.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Dude last election the conservatives won the popular vote. You’re saying a third of Canadians aren’t… Canadian? Get out of your parents basement or whatever echo chamber you’re living in and see that there’s a lot more grey than the black and white you’re spitting. This is why people don’t take hard lefties seriously because of your absolute dogshit zealot takes.

[-] i_r_weldr@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Or wait what about that one where he used Morneau as a fall guy for the scammy charity his family was deeply involved in.

[-] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Don't fall for this scam artist. He's the embodiment of a career politician who thrives on making the working class more poor. He's a god damn speculator and his 9 years in power helped create the situation we're in.

[-] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I genuinely can't tell if you are talking about about Poilievre or Trudeau.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Who going to back him in a minority government?

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau with his modest drama teacher resume, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Poilievre, who did little more than spend a couple years as a political staffer on Parliament Hill before becoming an MP.

And there’s no small irony to see Poilievre leading the feel-your-pain charge to find affordable housing while living in relative luxury of the well-staffed Official Opposition Leader’s mansion courtesy of taxpayers.

Of course, it’s great fun to bash the Bank of Canada governor for boosting interest rates to tame inflation, pledge to axe the carbon tax and blame demon gatekeepers for every bureaucratic obstruction to throwing up affordable housing boom on every vacant lot.

And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle.

So far, Poilievre seems disinclined to pivot policy in any direction, partly because his own MPs are worried their nominations to carry the Conservative banner into the next election will face the wrath of forces further right should party positions soften.

But as Poilievre reigns over his first convention, there’s little doubt that the snivelling political operative who regularly called me 20 years ago to complain about negative coverage of then-boss Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day is grown up and ready for a prime-time showdown.


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[-] willybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I can't get over the irony of Alpha males voting for cool Millhouse.

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