I was watching CBC coverage of some press conference Poilievre was doing, going on and on about the need for an “axe the tax election” (??). Someone asked Poilievre what he was doing to fight against Trump’s proposed tariffs and Poilievre says he’s not the prime minister, but if Canadians give him a mandate, he’ll fight for their interests, etc.
Then the CBC commentator cuts in and says “It should be noted that there are many people who aren’t the prime minister who have decided to adopt a “team Canada” attitude and are doing what they can to make the case against tariffs.”
The bluntness and absurdity I just found hilarious.
The bluntness and absurdity I just found hilarious.
I’m glad someone is calling him on some of the bullshit.
Note that the weaselly fuck didn’t answer the question about what he would do. I bet he has the beginnings of an inkling of what he could consider doing if he’s prime minister – or what was Mr Trump’s status for his any-day-now healthcare master plan from 8 years ago?
Aside from him not knowing how to campaign against anyone but Trudeau, this dodge could be quite a weakness for PP going into the election. If other parties are smart, they’ll capitalize on his evasiveness about defending Canadian sovereignty.
Conservatives are 5th columns.
Smith is straight up looking like a treasonous traitor right now.
Dude. That’s her mandate. It’s not that she’s betraying Canada; it’s more that the R.o.C isn’t really a consideration. Barely an afterthought, there to buffer the oil numbers.
She should be given the biggest of side eyes. A lot of the laws Alberta has been passing are fairly direct challenges to Charter rights.
Yeah
I always start hostile negotiations by saying what would hurt me the most and not committing to back up my own interests.
But Poilievre, who polls suggest could become prime minister in the next federal election, repeatedly refused Thursday to say whether Canada’s energy exports should be part of a Canadian retaliatory strategy. Poilievre’s dodge came after Alberta’s leader broke ranks with her provincial counterparts and Trudeau and refused to support any plan that did not have a carve-out for oil and gas.
Hey, Pollievre said something definitive? Hopefully people are listening that he cares more about oil and gas than the entirety of the country.
Ontario can lose all its manufacturing jobs, but we have to protect oil and gas. BC can burn and flood, but we have to protect oil and gas.
Poilievre at one point challenged a question on energy tariffs, saying he didn’t understand it because “we don’t import almost any oil and gas from the Americans, at least raw oil and gas. We mostly export it.” Canada’s energy regulator says the U.S. remains the top destination for Canadian crude oil, but also says the U.S. is the largest source of Canada’s imported crude oil, with 72.4 per cent of Canada’s oil imports originating from the U.S. that same year.
I’ve seen “I love oil and gas” advertising… It’s a mental illness.
I mean, in fairness, bombardier shed 1000 jobs and the federal government couldn’t show up fast enough with bags of money. Suncor shed 1000 jobs like the same day, not a peep.
So just to be abundantly clear, the feds absolutely play favourites, but if you think it’s in the west then you haven’t been paying attention.
I won’t argue the government intervenes with businesses. I’d argue now more than ever Canada having an aerospace company (which almost failed entirely) is a strategic need.
But I think that’s all tangential to the point at large that this feels like a dumb move.
I agree that it’s a disgrace that Smith is breaking ranks, I agree that Canada is better together. She’s clearly angling to try and cut her own deals with Trump, which is laying directly into the plan of any fascist playing the divide and conquer game.
So the government didn’t spend billions of dollars to buy Alberta a pipeline?
Goddamn victim complex is getting really old.
SLAMS!