MP Pierre Poilievre from Carleton riding in suburban Ottawa has his dark side. He gives no quarter. He is a career politician with no experience in the world of the workplace. He comes across as conniving and cruel, convinced of his rightness behind his political veil.
Poilievre and Brown are two of a kind. Poilievre is more polished and more cunning. Brown is the small-town hick from Barrie. You can dress him up but you can’t take him anywhere. Poilievre must have played with action dolls as a youngster, while Brown would have preferred Raggedy Ann and Andy. Poilievre obviously has his hair coifed at regular intervals. Brown gets his cut when his wife tells him.
Before either struck out on their own in politics, they read in different schools.
Poilievre worked for Stockwell Day, the short-term leader of the Reform Alliance. Patrick Brown was a short term-trainee in the offices of Frank Stronach who preaches his own form of fascism.
The problem is that neither Brown nor Poilievre understand life at the short end of a paycheque. They have never gone hungry and they have never wanted. And yet they preach the gospel of conservatism, of small government and free enterprise. They want less restraint on business of which they know little. They talk of leading our country when they know so little of foreign affairs.
Poilievre knew his French name would be a problem if he ran for parliament in Alberta so he picked a conservative electoral district in the suburbs of Ottawa. The conservative voters there think they are proving they are broad-minded by voting for someone with a French name. He went directly to the house of commons.
Patrick Brown took the more traditional route to Ottawa by starting in civic politics. He did a stint learning the political ropes on city council in Barrie and it took him two tries to defeat the sitting liberal MP in town. He is more of a retail politician than is Poilievre.
But what neither of them will tell you is where the money comes from.
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