In mentioning former Ontario premier Mike Harris’ ‘Common Sense Revolution’ the other day I did a bit of research and reread what it was all about. Other than some stomach heaving memories, I recognized that it is the same blather as the federal conservative leader is spreading like lard across the country today. The only difference is that on a national scale, it can kill far more people.
Not that Poilievre would care. If you are going to cut the federal civil service by any appreciable amount, you are going to cut services to people. It is always a good question, when he talks about smaller government, which federal department, he will cut first. He never says. And if you think it takes a long time to get a passport today, you could not believe the time it would take with half the staff.
But he does hope to cut taxes. That, his supporters would demand. They don’t give a damn about the minimum wage earner. Tax cuts mean far more to the rich. And whatever he would cut, it would mean far more for the higher earner.
And when you care nothing for climate change, much of the effort in greening the environment would be wasted. Canada will never be close to zero emissions while letting the tar sands exploiters take credit for useless carbon capture and storage.
All Pierre Poilievre ever does is lie about and demean Justin Trudeau. To constantly accuse the prime minister of causing inflation and wasting money getting Canada through the pandemic is not only stupid but promoting the same foolishness to others.
Poilievre plays on prejudice. When you consider the millions of people who have come to Canada over the past century because of the freedom the country offers, just what freedom is he promising his followers? Doesn’t he promise to reject certain immigrants? This is a man with no understanding of economics and yet he wants to politicize the Bank of Canada. He wants conservative control of the bank.
But then, he is the guy who promoted Bitcoin as an anti-inflationary solution just before the false coins crashed. And Mr. Poilievre is never going to say he is sorry.
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