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’We will continue, despite calls to the contrary, even if I’m the only leader in the country that offers any change,’ says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
‘We will continue, despite calls to the contrary, even if I’m the only leader in the country that offers any change,’ says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
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Trailing by the numbers, Pierre Poilievre is not changing his tune.
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This column has gone straight to the man. Some have written him off. You would think it would be too early in the game to write an obituary.
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The Conservative leader is not opting to change his pitch to Canadians because some Conservatives are panicking and heading for the lifeboats in a ballot battle not over until the last week of this month.
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Some of these folks are saying Poilievre and his party are headed for disaster.
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The leader stands his ground.
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He will not try to stoke the fear of Canadians as Liberal Leader Mark Carney does, day in and day out.
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You can’t compete with Carney when it comes to playing the fear card.
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Carney has his reasons to have Canadians thinking it might be time to head under their beds, curl up in the fetal position and hug their well-worn Liberal plush toy.
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Fear sells.
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You keep people afraid, you remind them constantly of their reasons to be afraid.
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You have Canadians believing they could become Americans sooner rather than later and only Carney can save them and they forget about the long Liberal record which is very real and mostly awfully ugly.
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Poilievre is in New Brunswick and says for the 10 years of the Liberals he has been right.
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He has been standing up for a stronger Canadian economy, more able to answer what he calls “American economic aggression.”
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The Conservative leader stood up for pipelines. Carney opposed them.
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The Conservative leader pushed for quick approval of resource projects while Carney backed the Liberal No More Pipeline law and the cap on oil and gas emissions.
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Poilievre backed tax cuts when the Liberals backed tax hikes.
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“The threats, the unjustified threats by President Trump further strengthen the argument in favour of the Canada First agenda I’ve been fighting for my whole life,” says the Conservative leader.
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Unfortunately, many Canadians appear not to be interested in what Poilievre sees as rational arguments, strengthened or otherwise.
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The movie in the heads of many Canadians is their own imagined apocalypse where we trade in our passports and become Americans, the 51st state.
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Or even worse, face an armed invasion where only Carney, the prime minister with the supposed steady hand, will show the U.S. Marine Corps who is boss.