Sharan Kaur: Was Poilievres Vorwürfe gegen Trudeau und RCMP über seine Führung verraten
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/sharan-kaur-what-poilievres-accusations-against-trudeau-rcmp-reveal-about-his-leadership/
Sharan Kaur: Was Poilievres Vorwürfe gegen Trudeau und RCMP über seine Führung verraten
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/sharan-kaur-what-poilievres-accusations-against-trudeau-rcmp-reveal-about-his-leadership/
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Dude dropped Canadians like a hot potato and is straight up bullying the PC’s into capitulation for the leadership reveiw .
All this guy can do is kick over sand castles others created, he hasn’t created anything.
20 years, 1 bill signed into law, and it was repealed. My shoe has a longer list of career accomplishments and I just got it.
He’s trying to play to the donors. The strategy is to find ways to get them angry again and keep them angry enough to give him money. Break out the dog whistle and work to appease the radical fringe that he upset by moderating his message during the election.
Just as troubling is what other CPC members have said about Poilievre’s comments.
See [Andrew Scheer’s interview](https://youtu.be/0qwqQwmYxzI?t=1286) on Power Play yesterday. Vassy asked some very pointed and direct questions about Poilievre’s claims, and Scheer, quite frankly, came across as a blathering idiot incapable of answering with anything but deflection.
Also see [Larry Brock’s interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlfzW13hkI&t=1020s) on Power and Politics. Larry Brock is the Conservative Justice Critic. David Cochraine, like Vassy, asked some very pointed and direct questions about Poilievre’s claims, and Brock flat-out refused to answer them. Even when asked if Brock (personally) believed Poilievre’s claims, the most he could muster was that Poilievre can speak on his own behalf.
Poilievre’s claim is the Canadian equivalent of Trump’s „the 2020 election was stolen“ lie. CPC is a dumpster fire under Poilievre.
Here’s the thing: The SNC-Lavalin Affair is perhaps the most significant scandal in modern Canadian history (read last 20 years) directly involving a PM…
… and voters didn’t seem to give a shit when it was relevant.
Trudeau was rewarded/punished by… keeping his minority parliament? It was such a technical, nuanced scandal in the first place (though Trudeau’s interference was certainly not exactly hard to comprehend, along with the resignation of JWR) that folks that were adjacently informed about politics did not exactly get fired up about it.
So, now we have Poilievre living in what, for 2025 politics, feels like ancient history, relitigating a terribly un-exciting scandal that only seens to serve one purpose: politicizing a non-political, bureaucratic institution in the RCMP.
The RCMP are not without fault in recent politics. Hell, why not target them for their absolute apparent collusion after the NS mass shooting and their extremely convenient arguments that assisted in the assault-style firearms ban? That is politically-salient currently with the absolute dumpster fire that is the buy-back program and there are pretty public receipts now after the inquiry for the frig ups by Brenda Lucki and Trudeau’s involvement.
All tolled, its obvious to anyone listening what all this really is. Poilievre is doubling-down on populism. Questioning institutions, grievance politics, and overly-simplified solutions to complex problems. I know this seems obvious to us, but it is worth identifying and calling out again and again. Whether he is questioning the Bank of Canada, RCMP, or the Supreme Court… PP’s populist rhetoric threatens the liberal democratic status quo we all depend on for a stable, fair, and functional Canada.