The 2024 U.S. Presidential campaign seemed to make it clear that never again will any American electorate allow any presidential candidate to go forward without engaging in a series of real, unscripted long form interviews (unless both opponents are unwilling to do so). Corrupt Carney clearly will never engage in such interviews. But Poilievre could and should. For the past many months, he seems to have followed the age-old playbook of being stage managed by handlers. There are strong indications that this will guarantee he will lose the next federal election. To prevent that, a prominent Canadian has some advice for him:
My unsolicited advice to @PierrePoilievre:
Fence-sitters do not shape history. Bold honey badgers do. @realDonaldTrump won the US presidency twice because he does not give a f**k. @elonmusk is the greatest entrepreneur and technologist because he does not give a f**k.…
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) March 21, 2025
Go big or go home
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If, after a decade of Liberal malfeasance, Canadians vote the Liberals back in, I’m gonna start looking for a new home in Tennessee… or maybe Czechoslovakia.
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For the latter, you’ll be in for a surprise when you start looking.
Yeah, especially since it broke up in 1993. 🙂
That obviously was what I meant.
the problem facing Pierre is the entire bought and paid for MSM are stumping for the liberals, and the average Canadian is too dumb to see what’s happening
The Canadian media and political environment is akin to the Matrix. So long as you stay plugged in, the Liberals are the safe and easy choice and everything is right with the country and you have great difficulty even imagining that it can or should be any other way.
Once you break out of the Matrix and see just how rotten the entire construct is, you can’t envision ever going back, and you come to understand just how hard it is to convince anyone else to break out with you. They’re happy in the the Matrix, they’re dependent on it, they will even fight to defend it.
I’m not convinced that there is a critical mass of Canadians with the ability to smash this Matrix before its construct enters terminal decay.
Great comment I.M. and depressingly true.
Everything is safe and easy – free stuff for the non-producers from cradle to grave, which is where the government hustles you when you become too much of a healthcare burden.
mhb23re
“the problem facing Pierre is the entire bought and paid for MSM are stumping for the liberals”
I don’t pretend to know the age demographic of this blog, but sorry, oldsters – complement, trusting and conventional – this is really akin to having the buggy-whip manufacturers, horse-manure street shovelers, and the coal furnace stokers stumping for your opponent.
Fact: the MSM are almost – almost – completely DEAD and IRRELEVANT to the National Conversation.
• The main watchers of TV news these days are institutionalized shut-ins who by virtue of restraint or enfeeblement are incapable of changing the channel in the ward TV room
• Paywalled newspapers and related legacy publications – save for perhaps the NYT – cannot collect sufficient revenues to make themselves sustainable (it is only (i) government subvention and/or (ii) being the pet vanity publication of a deep-pocketed billionaire that has heretofore kept this financial house-of-cards afloat), and
• To the extent they even exist, I highly suspect that most printed copies of newspapers or magazines are returned to their distributor to be ‘pulped’ or are given away free at the end of the day (there is a newsstand by my subway stop where I witness this daily), or are distributed for free in bulk to places like airport waiting rooms, nursing homes, and the like (which allows the media companies to artificially “boost” their circulation numbers)
The MSM is SO DEAD that, as Jordan Peterson has noted, the news of their death isn’t even news.
The best sources of news today are now X/Twitter, Instagram, substack, podcasts, blog sites, and the like.
The proverbial “Keys to the Kingdom” – i.e., the necessary tools for the Conversative Party to get its message to rank-and-file Canadian ARE ALREADY THERE – and Canadians are actually blessed in that we have more than a few good alternative media sources – it’s just a question of their having the wherewithal to use them.
The Gaadfather knows this. Professor Peterson knows this. Strauss knows this. One hopes the Conservative Party knows this. Jenni Byrne, are you paying attention? Anyone?
Not quite Eric.
The Boomers religiously tune in to their 6pm programming. Typically, they’re not that technically savvy, so they rely on the Big3 TV news propaganda sources first all their information.
This country has a mental health crisis. Trump Derangement Syndrome has broken otherwise normal people.
I know it, I’m living it. Our local acquaintances are in that category. 4 couples, all older. They all hate Trump. 1 couple will vote Con for sure. The others? Who knows, usually would be NDP in a heavy NDP riding, but Captain Carney is gonna save the day dontcha know? He was Guvnuh of the Banks! 2 of the couples aren’t really talking to us, because. They know we’re off to Hawaii next week. Yes, they are that deranged.
This fact is reflected in the polling numbers, with the Boomers preferring the ghastly Marx Carneys at this time, while the under 40 crowd does not.
Polievre has been relatively silent so far, only releasing that cartoonish commercial, “SNEAKY”, where you can’t read the graphics because they flash by too fast.
SNEAKY. Is that the best they could come up with?
Logic tells me they’re holding back until the election is ON! Then, flood the airwaves and screens with better attacks and more of them.
Logic tells me the Cons have Fcked up before with amateurish commercials that failed BIGLY.
The fight will be over the Boomers. How a Boomer can vote Liberal, while the health system is completely broken, is mystifying. They are the biggest users of the Health Scare system, the broken should be in their faces. They need to realize that the Health system is more than getting your blood tests monthly, where all seems normal.
Thanks, Dan BC. Interesting and thoughtful analysis on The Boomer Perspective. Odd and sad that one’s ostensible friends and neighbours can go off so completely half-cocked.
As I’ve mentioned before the Liberals CANNOT possibly run on their record so they are running against Trump’s America and smearing ANYONE who disagrees with them as anathematic, traitorous, Trump-fellating lackeys (P.P. & Co. need to repeat this argument over and and over over again. Conservative Party strategists reading these comments please take note!)
If what you say is correct, how then would a conservative candidate get their message across given a hostile MSM gatekeep to your Boomer generation? I’m genuinely curious (and no Debbie Downerism, please).
“Logic tells me they’re holding back until the election is ON! Then, flood the airwaves and screens with better attacks and more of them.”
I hope – HOPE – you are correct. I remain cautiously optimistic – the ammunition on the Liberals is all there in plain sight for their opponents to pick up and employ – but I’ve earned the right to be cynical and to fear that the Conservatives might soon be LARPing THIS: (particularly the event at the 3:20 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSM5y7Pfs
DanBC, Eric Strauss:
I don’t know from whence this hatred of all Boomers comes from, but it is nowhere near accurate.
I’m a Boomer. My best friends are Boomers. Most of my friends & acquaintances are Boomers. A lot of my neighbours are Boomers. Yet, there isn’t a single one of them who would vote for Lieberal/Enn Dee Pee. Not one. In my line of work, politics occasionally crops up. In the hundreds of people I see in any given month, not one has expressed any interest in Lieberal/Enn Dee Pee, either.
In fairness, there are a few who don’t like Trump, but I don’t see a greater percentage among the Boomers than any other age group.
I reside in southern Alberta.
DB, I’m on the Island. NDP territory. Brain damaged and stupid, the boomers LOVE their government services and cheques.
That explains the difference in Boomer mentalities between here and there.
Polling shows the demographic leanings. Check out Innovative Strategies pollster, probably the best, most detailed analysis, shows the Boomers heavily leaning for Marx C. Makes no sense to me, but, we’re talking about apathetic Morontariowe.
Wyatt Claypool does in-depth analysis on YT. Check him out.
Eric, qualified my statement of ‘ads ready’ by ‘they’ve Fcked up before’. Yes, I’m cynical about the Cons, after watching their ineptitude for decades, it’s justified. Remember, in 2015, Harper ran a horrible campaign, as if he had already moved on. If the case, he should have handed off the reigns to someone who wanted to win.
How to reach the Boomers? Yes, the MSM are the gatekeepers, there are TWO enemies to defeat. They key? Set the agenda and keep setting it. Do not play GOTCHA games. That’s the Cons fatal, repeating error. Differentiate from the Libs, not just a teeny tiny bit.
Point out the Cap Gains on Personal residence the Liberals have planned. Keep hammering on that, over and over, even when media and Libs say “you’re Crazy!” CMHC has it all in their reports, ready to go.
Boomers don’t want to be taxed on their housing gains. Period. THAT is the wedge issue that will divide them over the Liberals. Only takes one issue to divide, the Libs have been masters at that. One day, the short pants crew at Con central will learn.
Instead, we have cartoon commercials.
I think he’ll squash carney like a bug. He’s worse than Iggy was.
PP won’t even sit down with Ezra.
“PP won’t even sit down with Ezra.”
For good reason…it would expose him for what he really is.
He would never do Rogan, either…for the same reason.
Go on Rogan. Do it.
Don’t waste your vote. Vote for Max.
2021 “In 21 ridings across the country, the size of the PPC vote was greater than the number of votes by which the Conservative candidate lost that riding: 12 in Ontario, five in B.C., two in Alberta, one in Quebec and one in Newfoundland.
Fourteen of those losses were to Liberals, while six went to the NDP and one to the Bloc Quebecois.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/8212872/canada-election-conservative-vote-splitting/
Though Max had some good points, a little strategic voting and it may have been a very different Canada the last 4 years. Watch riding information, if the riding polling is close a vote for PPC is a vote for L/NDP/B.
This assumes those votes would have just gone to the CPC and that’s not how voting works. Votes aren’t fungible shippable goods. They may have stayed home.
Voters are not fungible? Gee, where I live many of the voters are fun and more than a few are gibbles.
GFY, you liberal plant. A vote for Maxipads is a vote for Carnage.
“GFY, you liberal plant. A vote for Maxipads is a vote for Carnage.”
GF your OWN self, YOU Liberal plant. It’s a vote for *real* conservative policies.
A vote for Poilievre is a vote for Liberal Lite, which means that nothing in Canada ever changes and we continue our downward spiral. Maxime Bernier, despite his flaws, is the closest thing we have to our own Donald Trump.
“A vote for Maxipads is a vote for Carnage.”
100% correct.
You are speaking my language.. The resident howler brigade of life time failures aka the dejected Maxipads will shit themselves over those wise words.
Walter, I agree on principle, but this is Canada. A vote for max is a vote for Carney, because all it does is take a “not Liberal” vote away from the only place it can help. I’m not saying I like it, but we deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.
“I’m not saying I like it, but we deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”
Then nothing ever changes. EVER.
See what is happening down south? We could do the same. We could take back control of our country the way the Americans are doing. We just need to *grow a pair* and stop listening to the milquetoasts and their dire warnings of doom and gloom.
(nothing personal against you, Peter…I just think you’re wrong on this…)
Canadians are too timid for a northern Trump. They don’t want freedom, they want pseudo-liberty where Big Nanny makes all the real decisions that affect their lives. And they despise anyone who opposes it.
Remember Covid? It was disgusting how many people reported neighbours who had people over. I removed my license plates visiting friends in morOntario because they live in libscum cities. And how many b@stards were giddy at jailing the trucker protesters, and freezing the bank accounts of donors?
If I didn’t have 3 kids who are trying to make it here I’d be ok watching it all burn, and then – maybe – be happily surprised if the people woke up.
mhb23re
Max can’t even speak English and K-bec Prime Ministers have dug us the ever deepening hole we now live in.
“Max can’t even speak English and K-bec Prime Ministers have dug us the ever deepening hole we now live in.”
And yet he is still our only *real* option to stop this slide into bankruptcy and chaos.
Ideally he would step aside and let someone else lead the PPC.
“Don’t waste your vote. Vote for Max.”
Fully intend to. The CPC clearly doesn’t even want my vote, so why should I waste it on people who do not reflect (or respect) my values?
Then enjoy the decline, you and every delusionist who give your vote to carney.
Dont complain when the dollar hits 50 cents US – or worse -and the liberals are pre-measuring you for your MAID casket, and the Canuck Matrix (thanks, I.M.) casts you as an “un-Canadian” deviant for not staying red-pilled.
mhb23re
Here is something I wrote in September 2021 when Error O’Stool “augered in” (a term made popular in Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Right Stuff’ meaning “to crash catastrophically”) which, save for the 2021 corollary was a re-print of something I wrote in October 2019 when Andrew Schreer augered in.
Will I be forced to write a 2025 corollary? Will the Conservative Party of Canada ever heed my words?
2021 COROLLARY
To my Conservative Party of Canada friends: You may be consoling yourselves with the thought that you’ve “denied Justin his majority” or that you’ve “fought the good fight” or some other fatuous rationalization, but I’m here to remind you that you’ve blown it once again.
Not only that, but you actually lost two seats! And in the context of a needless, wasteful election against a vulnerable, weakened, empty-headed, platitude-spouting opponent. And at a time when there were a multitude of serious issues to be brought up (which you didn’t). Indeed, what I have just witnessed from you can ONLY be described as a staggering, jaw-dropping level of incompetence.
I posted the original six points less that 24 months ago and as you did not seem to listen, I’m going to haul them out again (with a few updated bullet points immediately below):
a. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out, Erin O’Toole.
b. As for the rest of you losers, don’t assume – as you appeared to have done last time (the public isn’t that dumb) – that merely changing your leader is going to change ANYTHING. You really need to take a good look in the mirror. Even a cursory glance at a few conservative-leaning blogs indicated that you had lost your base the nanosecond you even elected O’Toole as leader so what were you thinking? Sorry, but if Canadians want the Liberals, they can simply vote for them so offering up Justin Trudeau but with worse hair is NOT a winning strategy.
c. O’Toole’s handlers and the entire Conservative Party establishment need be taken out and – to employ a euphemism we used back on the farm – “put out of their misery.” The party needs to get out in the country, interact with and expand its base, and stop heeding the advice of all these Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal-based political consultant types – i.e., bubble-dwelling, fart-catching party hacks who would be unemployable in virtually any other capacity. To paraphrase comedian Fred Allen (who was speaking about the amount of sincerity in Hollywood), you could stuff the collective wisdom of the entire Canadian “political consultant” class into the navel of a fruit fly and still have lots of room left over. The endorsement of O’Toole by Mulroney was particularly telling. The latter may have been an effective PM in his day but NOBODY – trust me – wants to hear from him ever again.
d. The Conservatives are going to have to make peace with Mad Max and his supporters the way Harper ultimately did with the Reform Party if they ever want to win again. Any of the aforementioned also-ran party hacks who insist that such an alliance would besmirch the virginal maidenhead of their sacred, illustrious Conservative Party need to be reminded – at point of a gun if necessary – that NO SUCH THING EXISTS (see my original Point #5 below).
ORIGINAL 2019 ESSAY
To my Conservative Party of Canada friends: I have seen more than a few keening, mournful posts from you about the recent “blown” election so I thought I might jot down a few random thoughts in an effort to comfort the afflicted and/or give hope to the hopeful. Here they are:
1. YOU LOST BECAUSE YOU DESERVED TO LOSE – Sorry, but there you have it. My proof for this assertion: you lost. The Conservatives simply could not articulate a compelling vision of the country that people could get behind. And don’t criticize the electorate as stupid and uninformed. Even to the extent this is true, would you be saying the same if you had won?
2. GET A PAIR – You have no guts, balls or backbone. Stop obfuscating, backpedalling and apologizing and have the courage of your convictions. People respect that. If you’re a socially-conservative Christian, or a libertarian free-for-all type, or think anthropogenic global warming is a bunch of hooey, don’t be afraid to say so. Be who you are without apology and people will respect you (and might even vote for you even if they disagree with some of your positions). And if you’re attacked by some outrage mob on Twitter remember this: virtually all bullies when challenged with even the least bit of token resistance will fold.
3. IT’S THE NARRATIVE, STUPID – Stop wasting all your time defending yourself against opponents’ accusations and go craft your own damned narrative. Promulgate a counter-mythology. Your opponents have been successfully doing so for ages so stop your whining and do the same. Public opinion can be as malleable as hot butter and you might be very surprised that if you presented a simple, compelling message with conviction, people might actually buy into it.
4. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IS FOR IDIOTS – You are way too deferential to established authority and opinion. The types who produce those hand-wringing/pearl-clutching editorials in say, the Globe and Mail are never going to dig you so why debase yourselves by even trying? Find a way to get your message to the country over the heads of the mainstream media (it’s dying, so how hard can this be?). You are also way too in the thrall of political consultants, ‘wise men’, pollsters, pundits, elder statesmen, party hacks, assorted mouth-breathers and other nervous-nellies peddling shopworn conventional wisdom. These people know virtually nothing.
5. NO TRADITION TO UPHOLD = COMPLETE FREEDOM OF ACTION – The only real tradition of Canadian conservatism is being out of power (Jack Pickersgill once famously said of you, “the Conservatives are like the mumps, you get them once in your life”). This fact should be liberating to you. Use it. Anyone who maintains that this or that policy goes against the supposed glorious legacy of the Conservative Party of Canada is completely full of shit.
6. THERE IS NO SADDER FAILURE THAN A FAILURE OF THE IMAGINATION – Your political failures/lost opportunities in this regard – and an extension of my points #4 and #5 above – seem quite glaring to me. For example, you could bring certain elements of left-wing populism into your tent – the hard-left This Magazine published a piece last year entitled “Canada has an oligopoly problem—and we need to fix it” (about how government coddling/subsidizing of so-called “national champions” had resulted in our paying way more for such things as air travel, telecommunications and financial services) – which could have been easily written by the “right-wing” Fraser Institute. In a similar vein, you could diffuse/co-opt considerable Quebec nationalist sentiment by giving ALL of the provinces more autonomy in certain areas, which would certainly play very well in the West too. And as for any element of the Canadian socio-political fabric being an immutable “sacred trust” (to quote one of the great Canadian political blarney-spewers), if your opponents are as freethinking as they claim, they should be happy to explore all options. If not, publicly call them on it.
Anyway, these are just my thoughts. Feel free to pass ‘em around and to add your own.
Get your own blog. I’m not reading this dissertation.
Agreed.
The very fact that you refuse to read it speaks volumes. VOLUMES.
“The very fact that you refuse to read it speaks volumes. VOLUMES.”
It absolutely does. A brilliant piece, Eric. Well said.
Could you turn down the VOLUME just a bit? Thanks.
“Get your own blog. I’m not reading this dissertation.”
It wasn’t written for people like you.
Well said Eric.
If you stand for nothing.
You get no support.
Pierre follows polls.
Lacks principle.
What are these progressive conservatives “Conserving”?
Besides the constant Liberal assault on rights and freedoms.
40% of eligible voters do not bother.
The Canadian public raised $10 million in just 3 days for the Truckers.
Our official political partys can’t raise that sum in years.
The first real political opposition in decades.
The Conservatives attempted to fund raise off of the Truckers back.
All MPs stood up and applauded a genuine NAZI in our parliament..twice.
None stood with the peaceful protesters in Ottawa.
Uni-Party,one and all.
Have to say ….
The ‘leader’ is isolated, so much so that he will never read or hear what the punks around him don’t want him to hear and see. The punks see it as a virus.
If, by an outside chance, he may read this screed and Saad from beginning to end without the punks distill the meaning, one wonders, would he ponder it or dismiss it.
“If, by an outside chance, he may read this screed and Saad from beginning to end without the punks distill the meaning, one wonders, would he ponder it or dismiss it.”
Good point. He should be at least given the opportunity.
I include: Throwing your friends (your main supporters) under the bus because you want to impress the Kewl Kids never works. The Kewl Kids will never accept you and your friends will all be gone.
I tried to get that through to the PCs last time around but they were too busy trying to impress the Kewl Kids to listen.
“Then enjoy the decline, you and every delusionist who give your vote to carney.”
I will, thanks.
“Dont complain when the dollar hits 50 cents US – or worse -and the liberals are pre-measuring you for your MAID casket, ”
I won’t. Can’t come soon enough.
If we have to BURN IT ALL DOWN in order to fix it, so be it.
Canada has been on a slow, painful and inexorable decline for decades now, and there is apparently NO OTHER WAY to stop it.
It really is quite sad that people like you are too afraid to take the necessary steps to arrest and reverse this decline without the trauma of watching the country fall apart first, but that’s your choice, not mine. Mine is to stop it before it gets anywhere near that bad, but I am stymied by people like you at every turn.
Fine. Have it your way, then…let the Liberals and the Liberal Lites irreparably damage Canada and take us right to the very edge of dissolution. Either way, my side will eventually win and yours will lose…it’s just a shame that we will need to do it the hard way rather than the easy way.
“I include: Throwing your friends (your main supporters) under the bus because you want to impress the Kewl Kids never works. The Kewl Kids will never accept you and your friends will all be gone.”
That’s the funniest part, isn’t it?
Them thinking that because their political *opponents* are ever-so-helpfully giving them free advice on how to beat them (by being “more moderate” and “less conservative”) that they should actually believe them and take that advice at face value.
Does anyone even remember now why the Reform Party was born in the first place?
Pretty good stuff, Eric. Thanks for the words.
Imagine Canada as an airliner; Conservatives on the right side of the plane, Libs and NDP on the left side. Suddenly, the right wing of the plane shears off.
The Liberals and NDP say to the Conservatives, “Hah! We still have our wing!”
“Anyone who maintains that this or that policy goes against the supposed glorious legacy of the Conservative Party of Canada is completely full of shit.”
I love how you’re just embracing your own total lack of principles or morality. It’s very honest. Also: the Carney Campaign thanks you for your continued efforts.
UnMe, Stock Response: #5
“You are a knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service; and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.” (King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2)
Well it’s great to speak boldly and assert what you think to be truths, but what if they are fictions? What if a Conservative running as if he were Max Bernier would poll less than any other kind of Conservative?Obviously he would poll better than Bernier because two thirds of people who generally agree with PPC policies still vote Conservative either out of habit or out of fear of splitting what they know to be a precariously small vote.
Personally I don’t see the logic of this “forthright conservatism wins big” concept as applied to Canada, it’s like saying if you have a strong belief in your invulnerability you can canoe down Virginia Falls (and live).
Of course we’ll never have a chance to test the narrative and it doesn’t necessarily mean I would advocate a centrist positioning, you have to be able to respect yourself. But sometimes self-respect leads to inevitable loss, the idea that magically the people with the right opinions will always prevail is a fairy tale. Trump won largely because Biden demonstrated extreme incompetence. Can you really see Trump winning against a more competent version of Biden which is, let’s face it, what the Liberals are, they don’t make the major blunders that Biden made such as allowing thirty million dangerous people across an unsupervised border. They make blunders on a smaller scale that will allow them to keep doing it “progressively” for a long interval. The cumulative effect may be a larger blunder but people’s attention to detail in politics is generally limited to the previous term of office. So I would advise Poilievre to take as moderate a course as he can stomach and expect to make incremental improvements at first, perhaps expanding the pace of them later into the mandate if he can earn a mandate.
30 million across a U.S. border versus 5 million here, and toss in the existing nations within nations here, and we’re way worse off.
The people who crossed are not in fact dangerous.
The fact is, UnReal, is that you’re either outright lying (some would call it “gaslighting”), or else you don’t know shit.
Embrace the power of “and”.
Eleventh of Never, please level with us: you are the alias/pen name of Peter MacKay, right? Or am i conversing with the ghost of Dalton Camp?
Sorry, don’t buy it. Give people Liberal Lite, and they will vote for the real thing.
“Sorry, don’t buy it. Give people Liberal Lite, and they will vote for the real thing.”
Exactly. Just like they have been doing for decades already.
The Liberals and the ‘Progressive’ Conservatives would routinely swap governments every ten years or so, and make only minor policy changes to maintain the status quo. That’s not what we need now…we need *real* change if Canada is to survive.
PP is a career politician who never built anything, accoplished anything outside of government, or created something new. Asking generic politician #15486 to suddenly behave like he is a complete human being is beyond satire.
PP is Canadian GOPe. He has no intentions of winning.
He wants to win alright. He just doesn’t want to make the changes that are necessary.
“He wants to win alright. He just doesn’t want to make the changes that are necessary.”
Agreed. He doesn’t appear have the spine for it, sadly.
Just a reminder of who stood up for Canada
https://www.richardmoore.com/truckers-pix.html
I can’t find the link, but during the trucker convoy, SDA published portraits of Canadian heroes
Exasperated:
All these people, that you talk about, have a moral compass. PP is a construct. He’s never spent one day in the real world. Raised by teachers and then, went into politics. He hasn’t even had to think where his next paycheque was coming from, it just magically appeared. No one is going to save us. I’d suggest reaching out to the Hutterite/Amish and making them your friends. Nothing is worse than being exasperated,angry and hungry
Pierre doesn’t want to do any unscripted interviews or podcasts because it will be revealed that he’s not a whole lot different than the liberals when it comes to the important issues. I’m still voting conservative though
Cons can’t win. It’s outside the scope of their existence.
Lots of good comments.
Liberals please people by lying to them.
About everything.
Liberal voters want to be pleased.
The vast majority of Canadians are Liberals even to some small degree and you know it when they brag about things that are clearly untrue – Universal Health Care.
The Liberals have institutionalized the Bureaucracy, the Justice System, the Oligopolies, the RCMP, the CBC, the Education System.
Blame PP and his messaging, for sure, but the Liberals start influencing toddlers in subsidized daycare.
The Matrix?
Absolutely.
Gotta laugh at the uni-party establishment shills who say “a vote for the most conservative party is a vote for the liberals.” Those people are the truest enemies of Canada ever, ever getting back to the conservative principles that existed before PET.
You can vote for a guy who called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic. That you can vote for a guy who did all this and still call yourself a conservative is laughable.
“Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity.”
Hey yeahwell, where is your great idea of who to vote for bud? I see a lot of complaining but little solutions. Liberals and NDP are corrupt crooks and have ruined this country so electing anything else including a chair would be an improvement because the chair wouldn’t be able to steal or spend our money. You guys that bash PP on this blog are idealistic and not too bright. We need a PP before we can get to a more conservative leader.
Spare me your excuses for not having any conservative principles.
Max Bernier has been espousing a much more conservative position for a long time now, but the libtard wing of the CPC (ie their true base) refuses to vote for him, because reasons. They say he’s unelectable, then refuse to vote for him. Self-fulfilling prophecy 101.
PP called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic. If that’s what you call “conservative”, then you are deluded, and if you vote for him based on some kind of misplaced pragmatism, then you have abandoned any pretense of upholding conservative principles. Period.
“You can vote for a guy who called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic. ”
And supports the odious Quebec dairy cartel. And voted to accuse all Canadians of genocide against natives.
“That you can vote for a guy who did all this and still call yourself a conservative is laughable.”
Might as well wear a Liberal Lite t-shirt.
If the CPC had won the last election, how would things be any different, other than that they’d be facing annihilation in the upcoming election?
The CPC completely backed the jab, the lockdowns, the trampling of rights and freedoms.
Pierre Polievre would not support the truckers (representing millions of Canadians). He libeled Christine Anderson and castigated the MPs who talked with her.
The CPC gave the real Nazi a standing ovation.
The CPC never once asked how much of the money and materiel being shipped to Ukraine would actually make it to the frontline.
The CPC doesn’t defend kids against the genital butchers.
How is a vote for the CPC a vote for the conservatives?
The CPC/LPC dichotomy is a bait-and-switch scam perpetrated on the gullible fools who make up the Canadian population.
I said in another thread here maybe a week ago that the Conservatives aim is to ably administer the Liberal state such that the structure remains intact for when the Liberals return to power. When what is direly needed is for said Liberal state to be rapidly and aggressively dismantled such that it cannot easily be rebuilt.
This task is unfortunately beyond the Conservatives because in their own way they too are trapped within the Liberal Matrix. They accept the bulk of the framing of key issues, questions of governance, of economy, etc. that are predominantly set by Liberals. Put another way, the Conservatives operate only within the confines of the Overton Window which is set in this country by Liberals. They are unwilling and or unable to move that window in any meaningful way.
Excellent point. I think PP needs to read the room, grow a pair and go full MCGA. Otherwise he loses.
“Excellent point. I think PP needs to read the room, grow a pair and go full MCGA. Otherwise he loses.”
And so does Canada.
LOL the Carney Campaign thanks you for your efforts.
Stock response #8 ?
You’ve used that line twice now.
Canadian Voters should remember one thing! Canada was formed in 1867— to 2015 we racked up a debt of 1 Trillion Dollars!
Justin and the Liberals 2015-25 racked up the Debt to 2,200,000,000,000! Justin more than doubled the debt in a little more than 9 years!
And I ask you can you name one thing in CANADA that is better!
Pierre Poilievre shouldn’t have to say a Dam thing to win the election!
L – The current CPC “elite” are Red Tories, who have sidelined or kicked out any source of critical or independent thought. A functional party incorporates the principled dissidents, especially
ones with significant popular support, into a tent big enough to win.
Without Free Speech, bad/ failed ideas get to infect, maim and kill, economies, people, nations
and Civilizations. Europe and Britain are in the process of committing suicide, the enemy is
within the gates, has crossed the blood brain barrier. It’s a mind virus/parasite and the cheap
and effective anti-parasitic is suppressed because it, Freedom of thought, is too scary.
The Saviour Generals have been recruited south of us… To be continued…
Max ain’t going to win sh!t. Not a seat, not a serious percent of voters, nor the support of any significant part of the population.
That is the reality of the situation. Period.
Argue all you want about what a true conservative is, who stands for a more conservative point of view or any thing remotely like that.
Max ain’t going to win sh!t.
21 seats won by enough votes for PPC that could have been won by CPC in last election. The crap we’re in is in large part due to this. Give your head a shake, Max is not the answer then or now.
If you want more of the same, waste your vote on Max or invalidate your vote or even don’t vote (god forbid). Any of these options are a vote for the status quo.
Is Pierre perfect? Nope. Has some people around him I’m not trusting much. His interviews with non-MSM are good, handling of objectionable MSM and other anti’s is good. His message is good, not perfect, but good.
More of the same? Vote Max. He ain’t going to win sh!t.
This election is not about who’s the more conservative conservative, it’s about getting the Lib/NDP/Green/Bloc away from power. PPC can’t do it, CPC can.
Max ain’t going to win sh!t.
Self-fulfilling prophecy 101.
You vote for a guy who called Christine Anderson a racist, voted to make conversion therapy a crime, voted to make the Proud Boys a terror org, voted to investigate the Trucker’s funding, and made not a peep when Canadians’ civil rights were violated, in detail, during the plandemic, and yet call yourself a conservative, when what you are is, in fact, a scared little peon whose fears vastly outweigh your principles.
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You’re not worth the effort.
Coward through and through, I see.
“21 seats won by enough votes for PPC that could have been won by CPC in last election. The crap we’re in is in large part due to this. ”
EXACTLY.
That has been our point all along: that the CPC *could have* won our votes, but refused to even try.
“Give your head a shake, Max is not the answer then or now.”
It is clearly both a message and a warning. Are you listening? If not, you have no one to blame for the next CPC defeat but yourself.
“Max ain’t going to win sh!t”
Yep, but the Maxipads will try to deliver another election to Libranos, the poor bottom bitches will not ever get a reach around for their efforts.
I hope more than anything that the CPC lose even worse and more embarrassingly than they did under Scheer and Otoole.
Not because i support PPC, but because the CPC needs to be humbled.
In addition, the longer we have a chaotic government, the more likely America will annex us
“I hope more than anything that the CPC lose even worse and more embarrassingly than they did under Scheer and Otoole.”
Same here. If the Liberals win again we will be in almost exactly the same position as if the CPC had won: one step closer to the collapse of Canada as we know it. It will be sad, and it will be painful, but it just might take that kind of radical outcome to get the average Canadian to WAKE UP and stop repeating Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.
Canada as a country will NEVER get annexed by the US. Conservatives in the US DO NOT WANT to annex the entire country! It would produce two socialist senators, and at least 50 DEMON-RAT reps in the house, PERMANENTLY converting the US into a one-party state!
Trump’s talk is just bluster to troll Canadians into a better trade deal with the US, and to get Canadians to improve security at their border with the US.
The likeliest of a list of unlikely outcomes is if Alberta secedes from their abusive relationship with Canada, and then votes to join the US, either as a protectorate, a territory, or yes, perhaps a full-fledged state! Saskatchewan could then follow suit after the entire country disintegrates, and each of the provinces goes their own way. BC could even split apart with the interior joining the party.
I am slowly beginning to realize that the only way to fix this is to try to put out the fire in our own house first. If that effort fails, then I would fully endorse Alberta seceding from the rest of the country.
I’m tired of the abuse Alberta has to put up with from Central Canada.
“There are strong indications that this will guarantee he will lose the next federal election.”
There is literally no reason to believe that is why he’s going to lose. The reason Pierre is going to lose is because 1) the electorate never actually liked him and 2) his campaign has made and continues to make idiotic Trumpian flourishes like ‘Canada First’. He is still using this toxic campaign slogan right now. He’s also trying to ‘stick it to the media’ or something by kicking them off his campaign bus (but also wants to subsidize media he likes). That’ll razz up the stupid part of his base and turn everyone else off.
He really poisoned the well when he pandered to the Bumpkin Revolution of 2022 and is getting the results he deserves, maybe better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHo1Qx-stU
Pierre was doing great until Trump (and to a lesser extend Ford) sabotaged him.
https://abacusdata.ca/canadian-politics-march-liberals-close-the-gap/
I’m inclined to think it had a lot more to do with Trudeau announcing that he’d finally FO already. Pierre’s favorability numbers were never good and bad by the end of 2024
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1602933/pierre-poilievre-canada-favorability-rating/
I can’t find the source I wanted but it was in the NP. They had a poll showing all the federal leaders of the time (end of 2024) and they were all bad. PP wasn’t the worst but he had the worst net movement over 2024. This explains it all including why the NDP are bleeding out. All things considered it could be a lot worse for the CPC.
For once, you’re right, UnReal.
Trump had plenty to do with the turn-around in popularity.
There is zero correlation between Pierre’s favorability ratings in Statista trend and the Abacus data I linked.
Look at the favorability ratings from Abacus on the page I linked (scroll down) nothing happened until Trump’s tariffs.
Besides, Statista aggregates data from multiple sources, without knowing who they aggregate over and how they weight them I don’t trust their numbers.*
Ironically, Trump endorsed Carnage yesterday and Pierre just made up all last week’s loses on Poly Market.
https://polymarket.com/event/next-prime-minster-of-canada?tid=1740561740568
*Perfect example why aggregating over surveys is a problem is Wikipedia page where Liaison Strategies that none heard about until March 13th and which likely has connection to Chinese government have been driving the trends by releasing results daily.
Do this, first look at the timeline here:
https://archive.ph/UaJzW
Now go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2025_Canadian_federal_election
Order data by polsters. This is important, look at the results one polster at a time (assuming their bias/method is content) see the change? Tell me you don’t see correlation between Trump’s announcements and jumps in Librano numbers and fall in Conservative numbers. Plot them if you have to. Look at trends not point estimates.
Point of order:
Anyone using the following phrases:
“liberal lite”
“libcon”
“uniparty”
Or the variation of them. Is a liberal plant and a/or dejected failure in life and should not procreate.
Thank you.
Pretty strong language, C…
I’ve used the term “liberal lite” many times to describe the current “conservative” party.
Don’t you dare accuse me of being a lieberal plant, after how that party has destroyed my life with their authoritarian policies, forcing me to relocate away from my home, and driving a wedge between myself and the rest of my family.
But you’ll be happy to know that I do not have any offspring, and thank goodness I don’t. I wouldn’t want my kids growing up knowing that they would not be able to buy a house or raise a family.
I am not sorry. Minimum honesty is required here. There is a difference between seeing flaws across alternatives and saying they all the same except for the one you like. If you do the later then you’re either an idiot or not being honest, and I don’t think you’re an idiot. “Liberal lite” is a Maxipad smear.
Pierre seems to think that he has to run against Trump too. Dumb. He should team with Trump to eliminate the Chinese corruption and incursion in North America.
LOL no. The Canadian Right’s interest in hulling itself to fight phantom enemies with a demented president is rapidly diminishing. Mald
I suppose you’ve never read the ENSICOP report either, UnReal?
“Phantom enemies” my aunt fanny!
Personally, I’d rather live under Trump’s leadership than China’s influence.
“Teaming up with Trump” is a vote killer to the liberal brainwashed populace. The first part of identifying as a Canadian is to reflexively hate anything American. The second is to profess undying confidence in Big Government. Probably the third is to shake your head nervously thinking nobody but politicians and government bureaucrats could save the day because “the smart people work for the government”.
And the Canuck Matrix oversees All as I.M. put so well above.
mhb23re
Funny how the same Maxipads that since 2016 refused to accept the blame for Potato’s atrocities now are are all giddy that they’ll get to stick it to the cons and reelect Libranos again.
I just listened to Pierre Poilievre’s speak starting his drive in this election! Outstanding! For once in our lives let’s win this one!!!!!
Election fever already?
Why have 4/10 of eligible Canadian Voters continuously refused to vote?
Election after election,they refuse to support any Party..
Or did they realize that there is only one party in Canada?
A Uni-Party.
I see some here getting all het up about those who support Max..
A tiny fraction of those who can vote,vastly outnumbered by those who refuse to vote.
The Truckers provided the first true political opposition to the Idiots of Ottawa..
Canadians donated generously.
Canadians stood in -30 to show their support..
Whoever can convince the reluctant voters to support them,would win by Landslide numbers.
Why are our politicians so disgusting that 40% remain unconvinced?