• Maple Engineer
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    4810 months ago

    He’s running on empty promises to fix “everything” but never explains how and the main plank in his platform is, “I’m not Justin Trudeau”. We can do better. Way better.

      • @Not2Dopey@sh.itjust.works
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        410 months ago

        Dead. They are stuck trying to NOT upset the Liberals, for what reason I don’t know. If they could start holding the Liberal party’s feet to the fire they could actually do something worthwhile. Right now, they are not doing anything.

  • Daniel Quinn
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    1310 months ago

    I feel like these are rather tame choices to be honest, though I can’t recall anything specific. I just remember hearing him speak in the House years ago under Harper and thinking: “What an odious little man”.

    Rather than sifting through controversial news headlines, they’d do well to sift through video archives of house debates. I seem to remember racist dog whistles and some pretty terrible things said during the Conservative push for voting “reform” and that Muslim snitch line.

  • @Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    1110 months ago

    He was part of the harper government that wanted to raise the retirement age. NEVER FORGET THIS. Also it would be like having trump as PM.

  • @SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    910 months ago

    Oh damn, this site was put up by the Liberal Party.

    Not that I’m against it, but this seems outside their usual messaging. A bit of a peek into how next years election is going to go I guess.

    • Cyborganism
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      1110 months ago

      Yeah that’s also what I thought. Politics have already become dirty for the past couple of decades since Harper. But now all sides are playing the game.

      It’s disappointing.

      But that’s what happens when a whole party gets rock hard everytime they listen to Republicans South of the border.

  • @Oderus@lemmy.world
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    510 months ago

    In late March, Poilievre had suggested during a campaign event that digital currencies could help Canadians “opt out of inflation” because they are not influenced by central banks.

    That’s arguably one of his worst comments because he was finance critic under Harper, the master of economics.

    Imagine if anyone took his advice then, they’d be broke.

    • @drewaustin@lemmy.ca
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      1610 months ago

      Yeah, you never see the Cons trying that sort of thing! Disgusting libs using what a politician actually says and does against them - presposterous!

      • Victor Villas
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        1010 months ago

        I guess my tone was a bit dubious, but I wasn’t being sarcastic. Good fucking work, I meant it.

        The guy is a piece of shit, smear campaigns against him and Rustad are net positive for humankind.

        • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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          910 months ago

          The phrase “smear campaign” has a connotation that the smears are made up or exaggerated. But this is just a list of plain facts about Poilievre.