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Marc-André's avatar

A good test for Polievre would be to develop serious and credible policy proposals. He won’t be able to surf the next two years and be elected on feelings and slogans. So far, the little policy proposals he brought foward are borderline stupid.

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Dan's avatar

Has there ever been an election cycle in Canada in which the opposition started campaigning full speed two and a half years before an actual election? I am not sure that Canadians can stomach Pierre Poilievre increasing his carbon footprint by crisscrossing the country for one campaign event after the other for another 24 months. I found these last 6 months exhausting. But what I have not seen is Poilievre being capable of presenting a coherent and substantive policy.

However, I don’t think that the lack of policy proposals will be Poilievre’s downfall. His blind spot is the complete lack of grace. A good example was the recent far right pandering question at his latest campaign style event in PEI. Now the question was poorly phrased, but he should have known it was coming. He could have answered this with something like “I listen to the concerns and frustrations of all Canadians, including Canadians that have political views that I don’t agree with and it is my job to show to them that our common sense plan will allow them to achieve their goals in their lives.” Bot no, he prefers to humiliate the (female) reporter, attack the CBC and claim that this is further evidence that the mainstream media is against him.

The other example happened a few months ago during question period. Question period is a fairly useless political theatre, but both leaders now and then manage to score a few meaningless points. Trudeau landed one punch by pointing out that Poilievre never had a job outside of parliament. Poilievre responded by referring to a vile and debunked conspiracy about Trudeau’s teaching career. It was completely uncalled for, undisciplined and an indication that Poilievre’s skin is rather thin.

Poilievre can record as many baby videos as he wants, but the public (especially women) will recognize a jerk when they see this kind of behaviour.

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