Jan 29, 2020
After losing to Trudeau in a very winnable election (for them), I'm hearing conservatives in Canada are looking at swinging back towards the center.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be prophetic as the Conservatives elected a milquetoast centrist in high heels in Erin O'Toole to lose to Trudeau in September 2021.
At least the trucker protest ousted him in February.
It looks certain now that Pierre Poilievre is the frontrunner to replace him in September. PP is unfortunately a career politician from the swamp, but looks like he has a decent chance of defeating Trudeau if we are ever allowed to have elections again.
It looks certain now that Pierre Poilievre is the frontrunner to replace him in September. PP is unfortunately a career politician from the swamp, but looks like he has a decent chance of defeating Trudeau if we are ever allowed to have elections again.
PP is better than I would expect from Canada these days, no offense. As far as I know, he's the only potential PM/President who has promised to ban his ministers from attending the WEF summit.
I don't have much issue with PP TBH other than the fact that he's too establishment (uniparty supporter of Ukraine, etc.)
He's proven he's too much of a politician for my taste though.
He refused to call out the political persecution of Tamara Lich, convoy leader, last week when asked in person by a supporter, who has already served 50 days in jail over a selfie. He only said as PM, he wouldn't "get involved" with the courts.
He also ignored anti-mandate soldier James Topp who marched 4400 km from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest immoral vaccine mandates in the military and beyond. Poilievre no-showed a meeting Topp set up with other MPs in Ottawa and refused an invitation to march with Topp until his team decided the polls were in his favour and showed up to walk a few blocks with Topp on his final day as he was approaching the downtown cenotaph.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be prophetic as the Conservatives elected a milquetoast centrist in high heels in Erin O'Toole to lose to Trudeau in September 2021.
At least the trucker protest ousted him in February.
It looks certain now that Pierre Poilievre is the frontrunner to replace him in September. PP is unfortunately a career politician from the swamp, but looks like he has a decent chance of defeating Trudeau if we are ever allowed to have elections again.
PP is better than I would expect from Canada these days, no offense. As far as I know, he's the only potential PM/President who has promised to ban his ministers from attending the WEF summit.
I don't have much issue with PP TBH other than the fact that he's too establishment (uniparty supporter of Ukraine, etc.)
He's proven he's too much of a politician for my taste though.
He refused to call out the political persecution of Tamara Lich, convoy leader, last week when asked in person by a supporter, who has already served 50 days in jail over a selfie. He only said as PM, he wouldn't "get involved" with the courts.
He also ignored anti-mandate soldier James Topp who marched 4400 km from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest immoral vaccine mandates in the military and beyond. Poilievre no-showed a meeting Topp set up with other MPs in Ottawa and refused an invitation to march with Topp until his team decided the polls were in his favour and showed up to walk a few blocks with Topp on his final day as he was approaching the downtown cenotaph.