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Poilievre’s answer (paraphrased): If I had security clearance, then I wouldn’t be able to talk about the contents of the security briefings. And I need to be able to tell Canadians what’s really going on

Cool, cool. So you’d rather not know about threats to national security than know but not be able to divulge them? Will you also want to share these secrets as Prime Minister?

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Carney’s question is a good one and it’s exactly what it needed to be. Mr Poilievre, why do you refuse to get security clearance?

Poilievre responds that when he was a minister (which he’s been at pains to remind us over and over again was a DECADE ago), he had security clearance, so obviously it’s not a problem.

Cool, cool. So whatever the reason, it’s something more recent.

<cough India cough>

From what I can tell from the debate, the "leader" of the CPC is really an early AI (before LLMs) set up to spit out a set of memorized slogans. I presume there's an analytics team in the background somewhere gathering like/dislike responses from focus groups in real time, so they can try to figure out which slogan will get them back to the top of the polls and roll that out into ads targeted at a grade 4 education level.

If this was a movie, it would be funny. Instead it's just pathetic. Pathetic on the part of the CPC, and even more so on the part of people who still think this robot is capable of running the country.

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Blanchet on how Canada should help in Gaza… They real problem is that Jews in Quebec are ‘harassed by radical Islamists’.

‘The law in Canada says that somebody may invite people to be violent to propose genocide against another people if they can be hidden behind religious motivation.’

I have no idea what he’s trying to say.