Poilievre now becomes the party’s the critic for jobs and industry, a newly created role, with Ed Fast taking over as finance critic.
The shuffle is aimed at preparing the ground for the next election, as O’Toole’s team sees the ballot question framed around who has the best plan to rebuild Canada’s economy after the pandemic. […]
While Poilievre will no longer be the party’s primary spokesperson on Canada’s finances, a source — who requested confidentiality to discuss internal party matters — pointed out he’s still in a key economic portfolio for them and denied it was meant to be a demotion.
Still, Poilievre’s move out of the finance critic role will give him less of the spotlight on the party’s front bench. Poilievre has long taken a hard line on economic issues and organized labour, a message that is somewhat out of step with the direction O’Toole has been moving the party in. O’Toole has advanced a friendlier tone toward labour unions and started emphasizing messages such as “solidarity” when it comes to economic growth.
It’s not a political party. It’s a surrender declaration.
why didn’t O’Stool just toss Poilievre, like he did Sloan , O’Stool is a disaster as a leader! Butt Ooz and unColon R~4 will still vote for him
Poilievre was just too popular, and it grated O’Stool’s EGO
‘Poilievre was just too popular, and it grated O’Stool’s EGO’
Yeah, if you can’t lead, you can always get rid of people that can.
Now is the time to get rid of complete turncoat O’Toole.
In so far as leadership, the ‘Conservatives’ are aiming from bad to worse.
Sheesh, waddya gonna do?
Some people try to make themselves look intelligent by surrounding themselves with geniuses.
Other people try to make themselves look intelligent by surrounding themselves with idiots.
They keep rigging the stupid leadership races. We don’t need another short pant Toronto idiot we have one as prime Minister.
I’m not a fan of surrendering before the war even started. Or demoting your top general because you want to appease the enemy.
Especially a time when Canada has botched covid 19 more than any other nation on earth.
“… less of the spotlight on the party’s front bench”. That’s the reason.
How do those that call themselves ‘Conservative’ manage to vote socialist leadership?
It really sucks.
Who the hell you gonna call?
According to Jim Karahalios, the PC cabal will not allow anyone that is not a social conservative because of their view that if they look like Liberals, they might get elected. This is truly delusional, but that is their opinion.
if they look like Liberals, they might get elected
That’s exactly it. The Conservatives are too busy trying to imitate Prinz Dummkopf to grow a pair and/or a spine and actually offer a viable alternative.
So, when does O’Foole start stuffing socks down the front of his pants and showing pictures of himself in unbuttoned shirts?
Didn’t you mean to say that the cabal will not allow social conservatives……?
What next? focus groups with CBC “journalists” to develop policy because the membership aren’t allowed to participate due to their being far too conservative? How about bridging exercises and group hugs with the NDP…. Invite the Greens to join them….. blacklist and expel anyone who didn’t bloviate against Trump….Retreats with George Soros and Klaus Schwab……
People’s Party of Canada, that’s who, Lev.
Not with Mr. K-bec as leader. Ever!
Vote O’Toole then. He’s from Toronto
Having a ex military officer at the top on any right of center party is a bulls eye for the left.
Not saying don’t have them, just make sure they’re excellent logistics people and put them where they git r done.
Cannt have “Troops in the streets” ads again….even thou sleepy Joe loves his garage boys in the streets.
CPC is a centrist party. Only goofs say right of center.
“The shuffle is aimed at preparing the ground for the next election, as O’Toole’s team sees the ballot question framed around who has the best plan to rebuild Canada’s economy after the pandemic. […]”
Well, it certainly isn’t the CPC. Best plans, looking like a Liberal, smelling like a Liberal, Old Fool?
Don’t know what’s funnier: the notion of Pinky Otool as a “leader”, or folks trying to convince themselves that someday he’ll be one.
Realistically, it IS only a vote on hairstyle now.
Kelly, lets all chip in and buy O’Stool a hair piece then!
Either that, or shave his head and tattoo it.
That’s it. In meantime, the Tories keep sending around (aside from the multitudinous pleas for cash) questionnaires asking things like “Should we be taking a hard line against China?” “ Do we need to advertise more?” Etc. FFS! You won (dubiously, admittedly) the leadership – start f’ing LEADING, already!
+1
But it is already too late for him. The Lib’s propagandists have already sized up O’Foole as a target.
Justin O’Toole will save the Liberal Party.
Five more years. Five more years.
He was Sloaned.
OK, yuppers, the cucks are getting rid if their best and brightest!
Time to try the PPC.
Maybe the laurentian elite realize they can’t keep up the Trudeau charade forever so best to prepare to have the CPC step in for a while.
But before that can be allowed to happen conservatives in the party must be purged ( not a big job)
Ward, this is what I call the Harlem Globetrotter strategy. Every now and then, the rulers of Canada allow the Washington Generals to win a game; they own both sides and it continues the fiction of a real game.
Pretty much. Harper’s time in power was something of an aberration if seen in this light, a rise that was truly only possible because the Liberals had been in power so long, had grown so fat and corrupt, that Canadians simply had to get them out. Combine that with two dud Liberal leaders in a row and Canadians couldn’t quite stomach putting them back in. Add a charismatic NDP leader for good measure who siphoned off a lot of left-wing votes from the Liberals.
But then TA-DA! shiny new Trudeau to vote for! Liberals back in, and there they will stay. Canadians may kick him down to minority but I don’t see them actually turning their backs on him. I think the only question is whether the son will end up serving more time in office than the father.
This country is ~65% progressive. If you can’t fix that, it doesn’t matter whether Team Blue ever gets power, because the culture won’t let them do anything with it.
” …..Chrystia Freeland — a more formidable political communicator and parliamentary jouster ….”
That was an attempt at humor, right?
ABEXIT!
Ah yes, the Cossack, so superior in every way, especially licking various parts of the anatomy. I shudder at the thought of The Cossack interviewing The Soros, which she did several times; she must have liked it 🙂
But I bet she is Princess Thunderthighs at Davos, for sure.
I’m going to get slammed here, but I think it was a good move. Why?
Right now Canadians seem to want governments to spend even more money. Yes, that is dumb. But it’s reality. Poilievre seemed effective in the finance critic role, but the only ones really giving a damn about what he was saying were people who were going to vote Conservative anyway.
Jobs and Industry is a target rich environment of wasteful Liberal spending. I think someone of Poilievre’s talent will be very effective at pointing out weaknesses in Team Turds actions and Poilievre will be very effective in this role.
If a government IS to spend more money, then it should do it by reducing taxes, thus leaving it in the hands of those who would use it most prudently.
Erin O’Toole – Just Not Ready!
Can we ask for Max back? Please.
No, but you can join him at the PPC.
I read this as an excellent strategical move. No election is going to be won on pointing out the financial problems of short term gain for long term pain to an electorate that benefited by those short term benefits. The election will be fought on the recovery and jobs because that is what people will want to know. Moving Pierre from what will be a backwater, where he has performed beautifully, to the center of the action is not a demotion. I look forward to Pierre showing up Trudeau for his lack of planning poor performance or any apparent clue on what to do next. Trudeau will be hammered by cries of Jobs, Jobs, jobs, Recovery, Recovery, Recovery and why are you hobbling industry in front of a public worried about what comes next. As Trudeau and Freeland are the only liberal focal points in a lackluster government, I want the first string on the field and that is Pierre. Good move.
If you think Liberal lite is what Canadians want, you are delusional. They will vote for the real thing. How is it that every western democracy is experiencing a populist movement, except Canada? I know we are cowed, weak and infantile, but why not try? Cripes the O’Foole would lose unopposed.
PPC
Peter – you nailed it.
Conservatives will lose next election.
I agree that “Eliminate the Defecit” does not resound with the average Joe. Neither does the promise of Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! because he knows it’s only jobs for the boys. Governments don’t create jobs, they just take your money and give it to others
To speak to the man in the line-up, talk of income tax and carbon tax and taxation in general, which he resents with a passion. As people are used to governments running defecits, run one by NOT taking people’s money from them and, afterwards, reduce government staffing and regulations because governments do not have the money to pay for them.
I also see this as a strengthening move. Spread Pierre’s intellect throughout a range of portfolios to improve them all. Others may also learn a thing or too. Mixing things up applies Nassim Taleb’s concept of antifragility for maximum results.
Erin O’Toole is looking like he is controlled opposition.
I’ll never vote for the Cons again. I might not bother ever voting again. It isn’t going to change anything.
No, vote PPC, the ripple becomes a wave becomes a wind becomes a force.
Me too. I might note PPC in the next election if that’s an option.
Hey O’Groole. If you were an honest man, you would have ran on the issues you really feel strongly about.
Like your support of the Paris Climate Accord.
Your hatred of social conservatism.
Your pro abortion stance.
Your hatred of CPC members who are more respected than you.
But you didn’t did you, O’ Groole? Nope! Like your typical greasy leftist politician. Mum was the word. After all you needed our votes.
Shame on you.
Your line “Your pro-abortion stance” should be “Your hatred of young life” which fits in with your ealier phrases.
Why on Earth? Because Poillievre was too good at pulling Liberal pants down?
Keep the competition weak. A classic Harper strategy, think Baird, Ambrose, Prentice.
With some trepidation I post the following. Really thinking we need to retire the “Coulda Had Max”, at least maybe until he can win a seat again? Otherwise he’s no better than Annamie Paul, except the Greens have seats in Parliament ffs.
Max was a shitshow in the last election, terrible in all the debates (even the French!!!), and did exactly nothing to advance the PPC.
And in the interests of full disclosure my household donated to the PPC. IMHO Max peaked when he was bedding Julie Couillard over a decade ago.
Time to find a new leader for the PPC.
Any Conservative who is not taking the media head-on is a fraud just there to play the game and roll in the trough. Years of CPC members being silenced, slandered and misrepresented by media and they bizarrely seem fine with it. That’s a huge tell to my mind.
The Cons have no fire in their soul, no earnest desire to counter this new, dysfunctional culture with sane, conservative policies. It’s like they yearn more than anything else to be accepted by the left. The sad reality is that it doesn’t matter that the media will block them from getting their message out to Canadians…. because they have no worthwhile message to give. Like their RINO cousins down south, they seem most interested in maintaining the current corrupted status quo that favors insiders like themselves.
Am I ever glad I nerfed these useless pricks for the PPC last election.
I’m out. F you CPC. Can we go back to the timeline where Harper won please?
Voting MAX!
Tell me again why I should have voted for the CCP instead of the PPC. Haha.
Someone should start a petition to force otool et al to have to remove the term “conservative” from their name. What a bunch of pansy arse losers. Glad I haven’t voted for them in years.
I like that idea, it strikes to the core of the problem.
The general attitude is that Harper lost because of the hijab at citizenship ceremonies and the snitch line. Andrew Scheer was Harper with a smile and his so-con cred lost them a “slam dunk election” in 2019.
Now the progressives have firmly taken over the party.
O’Toole is a grifter. I suspect that he is actually more right-of-centre than he is leading right now. This is a strategy to cuck their way to success, especially with the Liberals now in year six of their term. (Governments don’t last much beyond eight to ten years just because)
I suspect this strategy is going to back-fire for a few reasons.
#1. Progressive hegemony is total in Canada. There is no strategy around it.
#2. The Maverick Party and the rump of the PPC will siphon more votes than gained.
#3. Ontario is not going to be as wowed by cucked conservatives as O’Toole and his progressive advisors hope. The whole CPC = Republicans thing is very real in an America obsessed region like Ontario. They want to virtue signal their correct thinking Democrat bonafides and that’s Liberal.
#4. Covid is ending. Numbers are falling. Herd immunity is happening. Trudeau will get the credit despite how shitacular his performance up to now.
Conservatives in Canada are better prepping for life in a Trudeau lead Canada for another four and half years then working hard or donating big to the Cuckservative Party of Canada.
#3 is only partly true. Ontario will vote for Harris or Ford but not for Eves/Tory/Hudak/Dairy Queen. Ontario voted Harper only once. There is a pattern there. A strong populist conservative can carry Ontario a wihpped cuck cannot.
This is a sticking point with me. Puleeze — it was not a “snitch line”. It was a “help line.” True, it was an election issue, but a good example of media deliberately undermining Conservatives by calling it a “snitch line.”
Similarly, it was not Scheer’s so con views, but media’s relentless attacks on private religious beliefs that were a problem for Scheer. The media is destroying the country by their unwavering support for corrupt Liberal / globalist agendas. I think the country is lost at this point.
“I think the country is lost at this point.”
Eh? What did you think of Stephen Harper failing to appoint 22 senators-for-life before going into an election in 2015?
Did something that important just slip his mind? Why did that happen? Was the country in good hands until then?
It looks like predetermined failure to me.
I think he did it on principle — but it was a bad idea.
Gee, trying to convince liberals to vote conservative at the expense of turning off those that would vote for a conservative, how’s that working out for the CPC?
L- Will O’Toole’s next move be to rearrange the C.P.C. initials to C.C.P. ?
Did O’Toole just earn an appointment to the Senate, to be cashed whenever ?
No tall poppies or spines allowed.
The Cons are a limp dick party in a whore house while O’Toole is the fluffer of the Liberal Party of Canada.
All you Max party voters are delusional fucktards or just Liberals disguised as French cunts.
Voting is pointless.
That is a very concise and accurate summary. I will be hard pressed not to vote Rhino in the next election.
You’re right about the futility of elections. If voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it.
“If voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it.”
On the contrary, voting matters to the bad guys because if the people thought that they didn’t have democracy they might just revolt and establish a genuine democracy.
This way, fake democracy occupies the place of the real thing and people are placated instead of demanding the real article.
The baby cries because it is hungry, you dip a soother in honey, stick it in the baby’s mouth, and it stops crying.
The baby is still hungry, but you have prevented the crying by giving it a fake tit.
Buddy….I agree….however….all votes matter
I hate….HATE….politicians from Quebec…..I hate what these slim balls have done to Canada, I have avoided going into the province for 25 years and it’s less than two hours away.
As with the recent theft of an election in the US, this is not something you can simply shrug off an ignore.
Ayn Rand “you can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality”
I have lived in Ontario most of my adult life, I am a die hard conservative, I believe in Western Separation, I believe equalization is a deliberate wedge to weaken the weak an strengthen the powerful, it is the opioid for the Canadian masses used to rob our past and harm our future
Please choose the candidate who reflects you beliefs the closest….and tick the box.
In my whole adult life there has been only three politicians I thought were good guys, Mike Harris, Steven Harper and Pierre Poilievre.
Of those, Steven Harper was the best and the worst…he never understood politics to be a blood sport. He should have eliminated the CBC, filled the senate seats, reworked/eliminated equalization and stood up for ROC against Quebec….equals all!
Sadly he did not….and here we are….with no where left to run, for us or our kin we must take a stand.
As much as I hate….there’s that word again, Quebec, Quebecers, and Quebec politicians I will throw my vote to the PPC….the others are less deserving.
Please….reconsider your position….choose the candidate in your riding who best reflects your core beliefs and vote….or run yourself…you may be surprised
What does it matter. The tool has supported the turd on 90% of what he has done. Trudeau hasn’t answered a question in 5 years and the CpC is cancelling the members who attempt to hold him to account. Until we revolt or find a viable leader and new party or country we are screwed.
That’s what angers me so much about o tool. He is Trudeau. He agrees with him and if he doesn’t he better let that be known. If he doesn’t he’s done after the next election and we can watch the party pick another dud through the rigged process. Notice I said “watch” because I’m not bothering with these idiots.
yer dancing all around the heart of the matter.
The Federal Conservatives do not want to win.
For to win is to assume responsibility for an untenable situation.
Can Ahh Duh’s “Special voters” do not want to get off the merry go round.
If real fiscally responsible people took power,they would have to fire most of the Parasitic Overload.
Close entire bureaus of useless regulators.
Cut off the freeloading press agencies.
Tax all the fake charities and NGOs..
And beat the lying scum of our media upside the head each and every day.
Which none of these gladhanding freeloaders has the guts to do.
Just like us,rather than actively confront the parasites and endure the droning idiocy so prevalent in public affairs,we wait for it to crash and burn.
In a way the politicians filling all the conservative seats of our Parliament,really do represent Canadian Conservatives..
We need to separate as soon as possible.
Merely to save what we can.
Including our souls.
Can we have Trump? Hey Don, there is a country north of you badly in need of your smack em in the head leadership. He could bulldoze Ottawa in a week.
I said it before and I’ll say it again… the liberal scumbags running the “Conservative Party” know how to lose elections really really well.
I wonder who the liberals running the Con Party will insert as leader after O’Stool loses the next “election”.
One thing is for sure the Con Party will never win another “election”, and thats just what they want… to lose.
Have Conservatives accomplished anything by exchanging Scheer for O’Toole? I don’t think so. Scheer was building profile and moving forward. I think Conservatives have stalled with O’Toole. What exactly does he stand for? This is a nightmare.
Sorry I’m done with the CINOs. All I got left is Wexit. Ill park my vote there
I’ve decided that next election I will try organizing off line mischief.
I don’t care who wins at this point, as I have joined the 1/3 of Canadians that don’t see anyone on the ballot that would represent them.
I’m not surprised that after this long those politicians that claim to be conservatives have not bothered to figure this out. They have been completely brainwashed into believing that trying to out liberal the liberals is the only winning strategy.
Check. Reason number 843 why I will never again vote for the Conservative Party of Canada.
Why do conservatives always act like the “Washington Generals”?
This is where my vote is going, https://www.maverickparty.ca/
I don’t love the name but they are the party the west needs.
The Red Tory is the most useless point on the political spectrum. They can’t even be a bad example. Or do they consider the current situation irreparable and don’t want to take the blame for the coming crash?