Earlier this week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre gave a press conference and, once again, destroyed the Bank of Canada. The message was confused – something about banning the bank from creating digital currency and bringing in the auditor general. The updated heads shook disapprovingly. But Gerald Butts, the former secretary general of Prime Minister Justin Trinto, offered this tweet: “His cryptographic stuff is crazy banana muffins, but Poilievre’s French are fantastic. “Guess which of these two things matters most in a general election.” The smart liberals know that Mr. Poilievre is not campaigning against a digital currency based on the central bank. He is campaigning against the beneficiary elites – “guardians”, he calls them – who have made housing inaccessible and vaccinations mandatory, who are more concerned about global warming and the recognition of indigenous lands than the price of gas, and the need to give up beef for chicken. The Liberal Liberals know that the Carleton MP is the most serious threat they have faced since Stephen Harper reunited the Conservatives in 2004. Mr Poilievre continues to make big headlines and disapproving headlines. Winnipeg Free Press’ Tom Brodbeck has accused him of being involved in “Donald Trump-type policies”. Pierre Poilievre says he would oppose the Bank of Canada’s proposed digital currency as a PM Finally, a Conservative leadership race with more than one shade of blue “The former US president has made a political career by lying to Americans and attacking the integrity of public institutions such as the courts, the intelligence services and the US Federal Reserve,” Brodbeck wrote. “Poilievre’s tactics are very similar.” Mr. Brodbeck reflects the progressive narrative: Pierre Poilievre exploits incoherent anger in a populist campaign that, if successful, could polarize Canadian politics and cause great damage to the country. The progressive narrative also argues that high levels of immigration and the embrace of younger women and minority rights voters have combined to create a diverse and tolerant society that some less educated, rural, evangelical, white and white people are intolerant of. their influence will diminish over time. But the facts say otherwise. In the US, there are 28 states with Republican governors and only 22 with Democratic governors. In Canada, conservative governments of one brand or another dominate every major province except British Columbia. Donald Trump was perhaps the worst president in American history, and the Democrats managed to defeat him. However, many analysts expect Democrats to lose control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in this year’s by-elections. And if President Joe Biden does not overturn his sad turnout, the GOP is likely to win the presidency again in 2024. In Canada, Justin Trindade Liberals won three consecutive elections. In two, however, they lost the popular vote. And a Nanos poll this week found the Conservatives at 36% in support and the Liberals at 30%. What impressed pollster Nick Nano was that younger voters preferred both the Conservatives and the New Democrats to the Liberals. “The combination of fatigue with the Liberals, the pandemic and the pressure on the cost of living is shaking what was once a foundation of support for the federal Liberals,” he said. (One thousand adult Canadians, by telephone, using a four-week moving average of 250 each week, within 2.9 percentage points of 19 times 20) Young voters swaying in the Conservatives run counter to the progressive narrative. The same goes for the Tories who support the work. But on the eve of Ontario’s election campaign, the International Labor Union backed Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Doug Ford and ran an ad attacking Liberal leader Steven Del Duca. “The Ford administration has done more in these four years in terms of labor, labor law, labor, and education than Del Duca Liberals did when they were in power,” Joe Mancinelli, chief executive, told Brian Lilly. of the union for Eastern Canada. of the Toronto Sun. As for the angry-white-populist trope, in the United States there is growing support for the Republican Party among Latinos. In Ontario, Doug Ford is popular with suburban immigrant voters, and Mr. Poilievre is actively flirting with the same voters. Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre is far from inevitable. The Liberals have plenty of time to assess the threat and deal with it, perhaps with a new leader. But ask yourself this: How likely is it that the Liberals’ established tactic of accusing the Conservatives of being pro-gun, anti-abortion, racist and stupid will work for Pierre Puliev? For subscribers: Receive exclusive political news and analysis by subscribing to Political information.
