National Post- Pierre Poilievre: Memo to corporate Canada – fire your lobbyist. Ignore politicians. Go to the people.
If you want to stop Trudeau’s latest tax hikes, don’t talk to politicians about it, talk to the people. If the tax hike is going to force doctors to leave Canada, the medical associations must ensure every patient knows that. If your factory will have to forgo expansion because Trudeau is taxing investment, assemble all your workers in the hall and tell them that. If his tax on venture capitalists is going to make it impossible for engineering grads to stay in Canada, make sure students (and their parents) in Kitchener-Waterloo know that.
This is actually sound advice and a valid strategy. I often curse the Republican party in the US for their inept communicative skills. When I see an administration promote a multi-Trillion $ budget package as the “Anti-Inflation” effort, I am flabbergasted that someone on the other side of the aisle doesn’t call a press conference and actually take the time to explain the detriments in layman’s terms to the public.
Simple things like: “When the government prints money to accommodate what we can’t afford, it increases the currency in circulation and devalues what is in your pocket. So, in effect, President Biden is purposefully devaluing what you have. Groceries will cost more. Fuel will cost more. Everything will cost more. And, he’s doing it on purpose. He is increasing your costs, devaluing you hard earned money, and pushing that massive budget to projects and people that have absolutely nothing to do with your well being.”
If that happened there would never be a ‘Liberal, Democrat, or Labour’ party today. They had their values at one time, not today and not for a long time.
This is right in my wheelhouse because I’ve been complaining about it for years. Not at the corporate level that Pierre is talking about mind you but certainly the service industry as one glaring example.
Where is the Chamber of Commerce…Restaurants Canada…Canadian Council of Better Business Bureaus etc. etc. why aren’t you being more vocal?? I don’t hear a god damned peep from them. Liberal Party sycophants is what I suspect.
Every once in a while I’ll see a story about a restaurant owner who has the sadz because people don’t eat out like they once did because of the cost (carbon tax) and how tough it is to make a buck. Yeah, well, cry me a river…WTF do you want me to do about it?
Speak up or fold up.
Start singing for your supper.
All of those organizations don’t give a rat’s ass about their membership. Then send out a newsletter however often explaining to the peons just what a great job they’re doing representing them to the people in power. If you’re a franchise operation, which most every retail and food service operation is nowadays, you’re automatically a member of at least 2 of these things whether you want to be or not and they never asked the operators their opinions. Why are they so useless? Because they’re just an extension of the corporations and serve their agenda not the members.
You can check out these organizations using linkedin.
Hmmmm. Can you guess which organization you mentioned has a ‘Digital ID evangelist’?
If the heads of the various groups mentioned weren’t already in the pocket of the Liberals and/or NDP, that might be effective. And this is why the leadership of those groups was long-ago targeted and compromised – so that they would maintain narrative control.
Getting in the streets and honking might be an interesting strategy in the middle of summer.
If geese can do it, we can do it!
Big corporations getting stabbed in the back by the socialist’s sniveling parties-snicker. He’s right, I didn’t think the boycott of Loblaws would make a difference, I was wrong the store was dead today but Sobeys was packed with shoppers. One thing I don’t get is this, Sobeys is just as expensive but they aren’t getting boycotted-why?
I believe the high cost of food is related to government inflationary policies, including the carbon tax.Government has been trying to shift the blame to grocery store greed, but that is a red herring. The boycott may allow people to vent some steam, but it likely will have no affect on grocery prices. You are right. Sobey prices are as bad as or worse than Loblaws.
Sobeys is half the size of Loblaws by revenue, and has a net profit margin of 1.79% versus Loblaws’ 3.74%.
Sobey’s also doesn’t employ the punchable face of Galen Weston as “evil genius” in charge.
Is 3.74% supposed to be a lot because it isn’t in my (limited) stock-buying world.
precisely. perhaps the sobeys 1.79 is basd on an extremely predictable business plan they are happy with smaller ROCK SOLID return and product offering and loblaws has more traditional approaches involving textbook risk and thus rationale for higher net profit margin. all manner of related factors here.
lm not pointing any fingers at the grocery stores.
The Weston group has more holdings than Sobeys. And yes 3.74% is peanuts in scheme of things.
I was discussing this with a neighbour last year. He retired from the grocery business having spent most of his time with Loblaws and later with Sobeys. He commented that people don’t generally get the fact that the grocery mark-up is only a part of the company’s profit. Loblaws makes a lot of money through their head office through listing fees , etc. with the suppliers. “Hey buddy, you want good shelf space? OK – cough up some dough.” He also mentioned their distribution system is also a profit centre.
He also had high praise for Galen Weston Sr. but not so much for Junior.
One thing I don’t get is this, Sobeys is just as expensive but they aren’t getting boycotted-why?</i?
Rose, perhaps peoplekind recall the bread price fixing issue and the taxpayer funded refrigerators, as well.
Dead on, Pee-Pee. But 999 out of 1000 Canadians won’t speak out in any meaningful way. They might piss and moan a bit, but they’ll never go to a municipal council meeting or a schoolboard meeting; and they sure as hell won’t write a letter to an MLA or an MP. And they all have the same excuses for their lazy cowardice.
So why should it be any different in the boardrooms?
bingo. l believe the TURDeau’s strategy includes assuming they are lazy and ill informed except what his press buddies have provided In exchange for the 600 mill and more to come when that runs out.
all the shoulda-couldas flying around and regardless of justification, I DONT SEE NUTHIN EXPOSING THE ROOT CAUSE WHICH IS THE BALLOT BOX.
and the ones supposedly implementing the ‘shoulda-coulda’s are the first to suffer the consequences so how the HELL does THAT work?????
Much of Trudeau’s strategy I think boils down to “The only things I can not do are those that I am stopped from doing. Anything that stops me from doing what I want to do must be weakened so I can get away with it next time.”
Jamie, as one who has done all the things you say Canadians won’t do I did and more. I accomplished absolutely nothing as I was and still am dealing with ideological idiots.
…they sure as hell won’t write a letter to an MLA or an MP.
Last I spoke w/ my MP, it took over a year to get a phone call arranged and when the connection was finally arranged, the allotted half hour barely scratched the surface of the 30+ points I wished to discuss w/ her. Not only that but, on the topic of Globull Warmening, she had no, zero, idea what the current atmospheric CO2 concentration was. I pointedly asked her if maybe that little tidbit of data might not be somewhat important, seeing as, at the time, it was a CPC election plank.
BTW, neither did her monitor on the phone call, either. She asked me to repeat the question 3 times. I’m safe in assuming she was buying time while her monitor struggled to find her the correct answer.
It was a completely frustrating & unfulfilling experience.
I have the cell phone # of my MLA & text/call whenever an issue of interest arises. While he nearly always responds, his responses have rarely been satisfactory. Basically, the issue is big city (Edmonchuk, Cowtown) CINO voters. Merely one more reason to build a wall around them & fill it / water prior to the WEXIT vote.
Somebody needs to tell Petey that the scumbag corporations who get multi-billion dollar handouts from Liberal thieves or a closed market like the telecoms comes from all this backdoor shenanigans.
I really like this from Poilievre. Esp
If there is no political price to pay for a bad decision, expect more bad decisions. If there is no political benefit from good decisions, expect no good decisions.
If he keeps this up, the cpc will have no choice but to remove him.
Well, give ol’ PP a cigar! He’s finally discovered what the shrewd among us have been saying for decades.
Cowardice? Yes. Who wants to be the sacrificial lamb among the bleating sheep?
Civility is dead. You better really want it.
In 1988, free trade with the U.S. was headed to defeat, with only 38 per cent of Canadians supporting it and 42 per cent opposing it. So, the business community campaigned aggressively to show Canadians that slamming the door on trade was risky and that the deal would mean better wages and prices. Support for free trade jumped to 49 per cent for versus 36 per cent against. So, free trade happened.
I am old enough to remember this. The CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce ran non stop belittling free trade and Reagan. It is a miracle free trade ever got passed.
ah but did we get the promised zhobs and markets? ‘markets’ for raw materials they can somehow send BACK in processed form FOR FAR LESS COST AND STILL MAKE A PROFIT.
market indeed. more like mark it. something/one/how/when/why/where is now a ‘mark’.
because . . . . liberal
“In 1988, free trade with the U.S. was headed to defeat, with only 38 per cent of Canadians supporting it and 42 per cent opposing it. So, the business community campaigned aggressively to show Canadians that slamming the door on trade was risky and that the deal would mean better wages and prices. Support for free trade jumped to 49 per cent for versus 36 per cent against. So, free trade happened. ”
Yes…and then they did the BAIT and SWITCH that got us the inclusion of Mexico in the deal.
I voted for the PCs for free trade with the USA…*not* with a third-world country like Mexico.
Left the PCs, went to Reform and never looked back.
Speaking of punch able faces:
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And look at his fantastic bootlicking Substack piece:
https://erinotoole.substack.com/p/help-us-obi-wan-poloz-youre-our-only
FILTHY LIBERALS are trying to skirt the Provinces and control Small Councils through bribes, called “Programs”.
We are fighting our Town and exposing this Marxism. There are far too many FILTHY LIBERAL types that love trying to tell us what to do and how to speak. They all need a smash in the face.
We will restore some sanity in our town, whether they like it or not.
FILTHY LIBERALS