Well the topic was interest rates and inflation, which do in fact matter, and aren't just populist nonsense - I don't think saying "well he's just ranting and raving", and trying to hand-wave away those topics, is going to work for the LPC or its supporters, and while I don't think polls in non-election cycles have anything to do with how many seats a party will win in X years, they are a decent barometer for how the electorate is feeling about the current government. And it ain't good.
The stuff he's primarily been talking about this week is CPC meat and potatoes - the economy, government spending hitting average Canadians in the pocketbook, people can't pay their bills, etc etc. That's the stuff every CPC leader talks about and when PP talks about that stuff he doesn't sound conspiratorial or fringe at all, to me anyway... he should probably pivot to do more of that and hope as many people as possible forget about the convoy stuff and the vaguely anti-semitic "globalist agenda" stuff.
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