After his support for the “Freedom convoy”, the aspiring Conservative leader Pierre Poilièvre promises to “legalize the smile”, an essential step in the crusade he is leading to allow Canadians to “finally regain control of their lives”.
Freedom, control of your life, you have to live in a cave so as not to feel a certain discomfort at seeing these democratic ideals thus exploited in Canada.
Has anyone explained to Pierre Poilièvre what it’s like to fight for freedom and control of your life? It is however not complicated, it is a question of turning to Ukraine to understand it.
But no, the man who claims to be ready to become Prime Minister of Canada is trying to motivate the toughest members of the Conservative Party.
He dangles them with what his predecessors deprived them of, their Trump moment, even if it means embarking on a crusade against windmills.
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sanitary scarecrow
Even before the revolt of the truckers, we knew that Pierre Poilièvre was going to enter the angry populist waltz. His celebration of the “legalization of the smile” in Saskatchewan is proof of this. New stage of its anti-sanitary measures campaign, even if the vast majority of these fall under the provinces!
No matter. Easier to blame Justin Trudeau than to denounce the wearing of the mask in class maintained by a possible ally like Doug Ford.
The calculation is cynical. It carbides at the ras-le-bol without nuance.
liberal scarecrow
Since the ultimate scarecrow is Justin Trudeau, it only took one step to associate Jean Charest with it.
That being a Liberal in Quebec has nothing to do with being a Liberal in Ottawa matters little. The carbon exchange to which Jean Charest subscribes is as horrible as Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax.
You see, in the land of populist anger, we navigate through approximations.
This is probably why Pierre Poilièvre dares to suggest that if he were in power, Canada would be miraculously spared from soaring oil prices. Canada may hold the fourth largest oil reserves in the world, but it is an illusion to imagine that a few more pipelines would solve the current geopolitical crisis.
It doesn’t matter, it works!
To hell with nuance
The saddest thing about all of this is that Pierre Poilièvre is not an uneducated and megalomaniac visionary. On the contrary, his rants raise legitimate, important issues.
For example, the Trudeau government’s silence on inflation, which impoverishes more families every day, deserves to be denounced. Alternatives must be formulated. A debate about the future of hydrocarbons in Canada as the planet tries to wean itself off Russia is more than relevant.
The problem is that to win, Pierre Poilièvre seems to have chosen the easy way out, rather than the nuance and pedagogy that leadership in an increasingly complex and fractured world demands.
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com