For me there are two angles to the Trump issue for Poilievre. First, it’s the question of who can deal with Trump and the situation we find ourselves in. That’s tough for Poilievre, for me, because he’s never done anything. It took this guy a decade to finish his undergrad, and his time being elected has been short of actual initiatives and accomplishments. Comparatively, it’s tough to see how Poilievre would be better equipped to handle this.
But the other angle is far more of a problem for me. It’s the fact that this policies and things he’s said over the past few years are all so aligned with Trump. The attack on “wokeism”, crypto endorsements, “I’d fire the governor of the bank of Canada”, hanging out with the freedom convoy and the list goes on and on. It’s the entire conversation around Canada being broken, and the pandering to people espousing conspiracy theories.Seeing this kind of populist ideology being implemented in the United States doesn’t make me hope we see this here.
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