Konservative beharren auf niedlichen Gesetzgebungstricks, während die Regierung versucht, ein Land zu regieren
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-mark-carney-conservatives-legislative-tricks/
Konservative beharren auf niedlichen Gesetzgebungstricks, während die Regierung versucht, ein Land zu regieren
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-mark-carney-conservatives-legislative-tricks/
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The most interesting thing is that this is in the Globe and Mail. The corporate media were firmly on the side of the Conservatives, but seem to have pivoted smartly over the last month or two. PP has been very consistent, they’ve just found something they like better. The loss of all the free advertising will be another strike against him at the leadership review.
Pollievre is a populist. He doesn’t care about good governance, he doesn’t care about building pipelines. He doesn’t care about jobs and he doesn’t care about Canadians. He cares about winning. He cares about scoring points against his perceived enemies. If he was elected that would be the core of his agenda.
Its interesting the author labels one leaders motion as ‚cute legislative tricks‘ and then states “As long as it looks as though Mr. Carney is committed to building a pipeline (and we’re talking about perceptions here), the Conservatives cannot win on the file.“ In other words – we have ‚cuteness‘ going around from everyone!
I don’t know how you objectively look at what the Liberals have been doing in committees this past month and say they aren’t also participating in the game of cute legislative tricks.
They’ve spent over a month filibustering the *Transport* committee for God sakes.
Turns out having the NDP on parliamentary committees was a stabilizing force we took for granted.
> The Conservatives will insist the exercise has exposed the Liberals’ ambivalence about a pipeline, but anyone with a pulse was already able to infer that from the resignation of Steven Guilbeault from cabinet, the outward opposition from some Liberal MPs, the reported friction within the Liberal caucus, and Mr. Carney’s waffling about the MOU creating “necessary conditions, but not sufficient conditions” for a pipeline.
The media is once again talking about news from two weeks ago, so it seems that the „cute legislative tricks“ have worked exactly as they were planned.
> The whole endeavour makes it look as though Mr. Poilievre is playing games, while Mr. Carney is trying to run a country.
Everybody’s „playing games“, that’s how politics works. The vague-yet-impossibly-specific MOU with Alberta is also a political game to get Alberta to agree to industrial carbon pricing. What are the odds that the private sector actually shows up in the next seven months ready to finance a pipeline to Prince Rupert with the support of BC’s First Nations?
The CPC under PP actually aren’t that different policywise than the Carney Liberals on most issues, but I would never, ever vote for PP. Why? Because everything he says or does seems to be something in bad faith, and so despite his stated objectives and policy details I don’t trust him any further than I could pick up and throw Vancouver Island.
Some orange idiot down south is a great example of what happens when you take the word of a chronically dishonest person at face value: countless people ending up saying „I didn’t vote for this“ when the eventual betrayal was very, very obvious the whole time.
The other way to write this is „Conservatives exercise all options as the opposition party while gormless Liberals flail wildly.“