Three months in office and little more has been revealed by the new leader of the conservative party. A career politician, he moved immediately to the pictures with his wife and children to soften his hard-ass image. Like something on his to-do list, that was done. Now move on.
I thought it would be fun to call him “Pee-Pee, but he is just not a fun kind of guy.
I also think of him as something of a nerd. He has never held a real job. His ambition is to be the next prime minister. He would do better as an undertaker.
But his ambition is not necessarily ours. We hardly want an acolyte of Stephen Harper, who likes Bitcoin, appointing the board at the Bank of Canada. And Canada would hardly build much of a future under a guy who thinks you can only have new government programs if you cancel old ones. He needs lessons in economics but that should not be at our expense.
I have fun imagining Poilievre appearing before the Rouleau Inquiry in Ottawa and explaining the difference between the trouble makers and the ‘peaceful’ truck drivers who brought their rigs to Ottawa last winter. After all, he welcomed them all to Ottawa. I think he figured that these were his kind of conservatives. Anyone with a flag saying “F**K Trudeau is his kind of conservative. It is both crude and rude.
The one thing I will say for Poilievre is that he is a true-blue conservative. You will never hear him express any concern for the poor and the needy. He would give tax credits to the rich and leave the poor to charity. Ask him again where he stands on safe injection sites to end needless deaths.
And if he thinks that Justin Trudeau is an elite—what the hell is he? Millions of Canadians would love to have his guaranteed parliamentary pension.
Politically, Poilievre belies his name. He is a western conservative, who believes in all things Albertan. I have never heard him speak of conservation, the environment or of climate change. I doubt if he even believes in reducing our carbon output.
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