IDK anything about Canadian politics.
Didn’t this guy just preside over a pretty epic loss? Why does his party still want him?
Similar thing just happened here in Australia. Leader of the party lost his seat. Even if he hadn’t he would probably resign in shame because he’s really made a mess of things.
We have experienced a very strange situation where the cons (unfortunately) fared far better than it ever did in its modern iteration while losing its momentous advantage, meaning that there is still somewhat of a reason for Poilièvre to stay in the race. He is also very arrogant, so he will not back down easily.
Thanks. That’s helpful.
The in fighting hasn’t begun yet.
Yes. His own party should boot him as leader.
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You got to get rid of those nazis or they’ll be ruling the roost in an election cycle, trust me. –an american
Some of his ideas, like defunding CBC, are foolish.
I don’t think Pierre Poilievre is a Nazi. Statements like that are unhelpful.
He likes to dine with Nazis, and we all know the old adage about Nazis at a dinner table.
People said the same thing about MAGA/Trump.
Conservatives are holding the door open for fascism, and if you can’t close it, it will come in.
That was America’s favorite phrase in 2024…
PP is a populist conservative politician so he’s not actively fascist, but do you know what happens when your society has a fascism-shaped hole? Politicians like PP expand to fill that hole.
I wish people would stop calling him a populist. Doug Ford is a populist. PP is pretending to be a populist and is, at best an ideological populist but populists pivot. He doesn’t. We should be referring to him as an Opportunist because it all looks like an act to me.
If it walks like a populist and it quacks like a populist…
Oh ffs. Stop playing it down. Look at the riding he’s being given. Battle river. It’s conspiracy city. Far cry from Carleton… I know that part of Alberta well . I’m telling you right now: it ain’t good . He went from serving coffee to the convoy to living with them.
Step off with the gaslighting. This is the type of exact crap the Americans just went through. Knock it the hell off.
The dude is aligned with trump and is a fascist. I wouldn’t call them nazis just yet, but they are certainly very, very fascist.
I work in a very conservative workplace in Alberta, and when I call trump a fascist I get zero pushback. In fact, they just nod in agreement. When I say that Peter rabbithait is aligned with trump, they don’t argue against that point either.
The “good ones” know their support for him is short lived, and they will have to piss or get off the pot soon. I hope goodness prevails.
Statements like that are unhelpful.
Spoken like a true nazi
arguably worse, pp is a weasel who would play a nazi for a vote or stop for 2
the guy stnds for whtever serves him best
Lol
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I agree, it sucks when Americans try to project their issues onto us.
Hey, just wanted to say you’re right. And these people here are bad faith commentators. They push things towards hyperbolic statements in the same way the right went nuts in their own way.
Unfortunately I fear this is what we have to come to accept now until everything blows up.
Protip:
Shove your head up your butt and you won’t have to close your eyes to ignore the nazis
Seriously consider what you’re saying here. That PP is a Nazi, he clearly is not, while telling me my head is up my ass
People running for high office that make campaign stops with white supremacists are 100% nazis, no exaggeration necessary.
People that are not nazis don’t tolerate nazis.
If you use the word nazi enough it won’t mean anything, and you will push awayl soft support. They are fascists plain and simple.
Just call them that for now until one of them gets their Hugo boss uniforms on, then you can call them nazis.
If you ignore people that very obviously are nazis, you become a nazi. Be careful.
No, what you’re doing is lazily leveraging the nazi context for your political benefit. PP is not a Nazi for having a photo op or being tangentially associated with some asshole. It’s as lazy as showing pictures of people with Epstein and calling them pedophiles because they were in a photo.
It’s bullshit politics. The sad part is that you will never realize how it’s your credibility that is lost. And unfortunately since you associate with certain values, you lose credibility for the whole. There’s reason to shit on him for spending time with these people. But when you go hyperbolic and dramatically call him a Nazi, you lose the plot
Shoving your head up your ass won’t keep you safe from the nazis.
Good luck, boy.
Nothing says democracy like ignoring the will of the people.
Shouldn’t there be some kind of election to fill the seat the politician resigned from? Otherwise, they could just have supermodels with masters degrees running for office, then resigning so a Nazi with a beer belly and a GED can take over.
There will be a by-election and I’m sure someone will run against him from another party, but it’s a very conservative riding, so he’ll probably win pretty easy. But it would be the funniest thing ever if somehow he did manage to loose.
A VERY conservative riding. Voted 90% conservative.
Appalling, craven, cowardly, and pathetic hubris on the part of PeePee and conservative sycophants. A deep shame on rural Alberta for being such uncritical lemmings.
They haven’t voted yet. I, for one, am not holding my breath, but maybe there will be a silver lining of hope that he doesn’t get elected, especially if an independent runs against him. Now, to get the independent candidate riled up and in place. I have a vivid imagination. Lol
They are going to simp so hard for him. But I hope Maxime Bernier (PPC) runs as well as Blake Desjarlais (NDP) and the Longest Ballot as well. But I have zero faith in rural Albertans who have been mainlining right-wing apologia for decades.
The same people think that kids are using cat litter in schools to go to the bathroom.
They are
…during school shootings (US)
Smooth brained fuckwhits.
If it was the other way around he’d never let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, the guy who had to get someone else to quit in order to keep his seat”.
Politicians gonna politics, no surprise there.
He already didn’t let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, who was not elected…”
So I’m guessing Alberta is Canada’s version of Alabama?
Probably closer to Texas, since we have a bunch of oil.
Ah. I see.
And cowboys
More like Texas I’ve heard.
milhouse is a fucking snake and a con-artist.
Are there not residency requirements?
My riding decided to elect someone who lives two cities away, so I guess not at the local level at least
Nope
Man that seems so Twisted to me. How can you represent people you don’t spend any time around? How can you claim to know their needs if you don’t even live among them?
I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.
The system is designed in such a way that the residents get to make that decision. If they want to choose a non resident to represent them, they are allowed to do that.
In theory, an informed population should vote against this behaviour, but this particular riding will vote conservative until it kills them (which it’s likely to do).
Imagine if he fails to be elected again in the partials
82% in favour of conservatives during the last election but Carney can wait 6 months to launch the by-election, that might be long enough to piss off some conservatives that might want to get rid of PP.
He says he won’t wait and will call the by-election right away.
It’s bonkers, and certainly PP would never do such a thing in return, but not doing it would just lead to 6 months of "Carney is a coward who won’t let me in because I am always right and he hates that.
This snowflake is going to get treated with kid gloves over and over, and he isn’t going to learn a thing, will never return the courtesy, and continue to drag Canada and Canadians down as he goes.
Something I find pretty crazy is that he’s pushing out someone who was close to reaching 6 years of service, meaning that person is giving up on 6 years of pension contribution because MPs need to be in their position for 6 years to be eligible to keep it. What they contributed will be given back to them but in the end they won’t have much to show for their service when they retire.
He’ll win, the only reason he’s coming to Alberta is because it’s a slam dunk.
What a chud
that was predictable
Actual beta male
Is it within parliamentary procedure to address him as the former member from Ottawa-Carleton?
