It looks like the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in parliament has lost it. His frustration is obvious. If he is ever going to sit in the prime minister’s office, the best chance is if there is an election in the next five months. In politics, we say he has peaked. All his ducks are in order. His chance might pass him by.
Canadians are concerned. Poilievre has worked at helping foment those concerns. He has managed to blame Justin Trudeau for just about every one of the world’s problems. World-wide inflation, must be Justin’s fault. The war in Ukraine, obviously Justin’s fault. The ice caps are melting in the Arctic and the polar bears are dying, yep, that must also be Justin’s fault. It is so easy to blame Justin Trudeau for things that have gone wrong.
Mind you, the conservative leader does not complain about the price of gasoline. The price of gas is set by the American oil companies and the higher it is the more tar sands bitumen can be sold to the refineries to make synthetic oil. His audience in Alberta and Saskatchewan know that. He has many angry voters in those provinces.
And that is the type of voter, Mr. Poilievre counts on. If you are concerned about inflation, Poilievre will tell you that you can solve your problem just by voting for his conservatives. He is counting on Canadians suffering from FOMO (fear of missing out).
I worry about the disappointment to come for the young voters who think they can vote conservative in order to shake things up. I worry about the truckers who joined the conservative party thinking Mr. Poilievre had the answers. I worry about the farmers who are traditional voters for this party, that cares nothing for them.
In a country so in need of working together, Mr. Poilievre wants to divide us. Blaming others is not presenting solutions. Only a fool would want to put crypto currency on the Internet ahead of the controlled currency of a stabilizing central bank. When the strife in Ukraine can be ended, when the world-wide supply chain gets smoothed out, and when inflation eases, we can then look ahead instead of back. Let’s just give it a year and then we can see what an honest and truthful election produces in a country with the potential of Canada.
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