History of Conservative anti-union leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre:

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[Bev54]

1. JC he is far worse than I even imagined. Ezra Levant, Stockwell Day, Reform party

all the lovely highlights of the new conservative party. He has also stated he would not destroy supply management in Canadian Agriculture which from what I see is complete and utter BS. This guy is one of the worst, I hope Canadians will see the real person.

[applegrove]

2. He will only win a federal election if people get sick of Trudeau

in the next few years. US MAGAs were attacking Trudeau two months ago and I think it backfired because Canadians are wise to the false populism of Donald Trump.

[Bev54]

3. Yeah and we have the same problem as the US with our media which seems

to be at a lot of the Trudeau hate. People cannot even explain why they don't like him when you ask them. I was told by one that they agreed with most of what he did but would vote against him because they think he is smug. They agreed they would vote against their own interests. How do you fight against that stupidity. I do not understand this need to worship a politician, we used to vote for the party that we felt did the right thing.

[applegrove]

4. Well the good news is if they think Trudeau is smug they

will not like Poilievre. He's Canada's Ted Cruz. My worry is Jean Charest. He could appeal more to the centrists event if Trudeau doesn't frustrate people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Poilievre might win Con party leadership, but I think he would be fourth Con beaten by Trudeau

Harper
Schiff
O'Toole

Next!

Like another poster, I think Charest would be a more formidable opponent in a Federal election, but it is very much an open question if he can win the Con party leadership.