It’s a bad combination. Conservative party leader, Pierre Poilievre has been considered an ideologue. Yet, he appears to treat his ideology as dogma. He seems to accept theory as belief. In this, he is a danger to himself. When rank and file conservatives expect him to try to broaden his appeal to Canadians, he is maintaining the approach he used to stand apart from his opponents as leader. It is more of a libertarian approach than conservative.
Poor Poilievre is already learning the hard lesson of supporting crypto-currencies against government supported currencies. Some Canadians believed him when he said Canada could be the blockchain capital of the world. Now, was that before or after Bitcoin lost 75 per cent of its value? It must have been a fun day in the house of commons when the liberals, NDP, Bloc and others got to debate a conservative ill-thought-out motion supporting crypto-currencies.
Despite Poilievre’s rants against the Bank of Canada and the liberal government’s attempts at softening the blows of the pandemic, he is no economist. He accused the Bank of Canada of creating billions of dollars out of thin air to deliver on the government’s promises. The truth was that it was an opportune time to borrow the money at very low rates. It is that very critical ability of government to help its citizens in times of trouble, that helps stabilize our economy.
What is even more frightening about Poilievre’s financial ideology is his promise that should he ever be prime minister, he would ensure the any new government programs would be required to bring to end older programs of equal cost. That is probably the most destructive stupidity of any politician. The ability of government to fund infrastructure that lasts for many years that we count on to help grow our gross national product, year-in and year-out.
If Pierre Poilievre had ever held a real job, other than politics, he might have a better idea of what Canadians really need in a prime minister. He promises nothing but harsh right-wing conservative ideology.
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