So-called “experts” have weakened Canada’s political discourse far more than PIerre Poilievre ever has. Journalist and author Stephen Maher recently penned a column in the Globe & Mail titled, “By slamming experts, Pierre Poilievre and his staff are degrading political debate.” Maher is an...
When it comes to defunding CBC, the Conservative Party of Canada’sis that the public broadcaster’s French-language services in Quebec are behind a firewall. Curiously, I’ve never heard leader Pierre Poilievre say this himself; in fact, in the past he has suggested sparing on...
Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party of Canada’s MP for Carleton, an area just outside of Ottawa, has taken the insurrection-wrapped-in-the-trappings-of-a-protest as opportunity to announce his candidacy for leadership of his party. In a video release one week into the #OttawaSiege that...
Can you imagine conservative leader Pierre Poilievre singing “Solidarity Forever”? That is the image that comes to mind when you read that he thinks his party can win some of the labour vote in the next election. I expect he will. Despite the conservatives classifying the NDP as ‘woke’...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre put the responsibility squarely at the feet of the Liberal government. “It’s likeNineteen Eighty-Four,” he said. “Who would ever have imagined that in Canada the federal government would pass laws banning people from effectively seeing the news?” ...
In Canada, Pierre Poilievre seems likely to take over in Ottawa, promisingpoliciesto curb the rising cost of living and control immigration, presented with less stridency and ridicule than Trump. This is not a shift, as often suggested by the elite press, towards some form of authoritarianism....
Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre at a Tamil heritage month reception on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Ottawa.Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Between July 1 and Sept. 30, his travel expenses of $65,836.58 almost exactly matched those of Lori Idlout ($66,181.59), a perenn...
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a blunt right-winger by his country’s standards, is widely seen as prime minister-in-waiting, and was lionized by US conservative media for supporting trucker protests that converged on Ottawa in 2022 and in which support for Trump-style populism ...