More Poilievre misinformation:

“‘We will never allow a tax on home equity. Period. Full stop. Not going to happen,’ he said.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/22/news/poilievre-says-he-wont-impose-home-equity-tax-liberals-ndp-talk-health-care

“Poilievre went on to claim — without offering evidence — that the incumbent Liberals would not let the status quo stand.

Pointing to the spending projections in Liberal Leader Mark Carney's platform, released Saturday, Poilievre claimed the Liberals would need to tap into Canadians' home equity to fund those plans.”

I've been saying for a while that the policy differences between #PierrePoilievre and #MarkCarney are minor: impose countervailing tariffs on the US, lower interprovincial trade barriers, abolish the consumer carbon tax, eliminate the GST on new homes, build an energy corridor, cut income taxes, spend more on defence, etc. (It's good to see a Liberal sing from the Conservative songbook, though is his heart in it?)

Possibly the most important difference is #crime.

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“Poilievre pledges to cut government consultant spending by $10-billion a year”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-conservative-pierre-poilievre-government-consultant-cuts-pledge/

However:
“Mr. Poilievre did not provide a dollar figure Sunday for how much a Conservative government would end up spending on consultants, with his cuts. He has previously claimed the government spends $21-billion a year on consultants. However, the actual amount that Ottawa spends each year on management consultants is only a small fraction of that amount.”

Trumpian tactics against Canada have been a boomerang, igniting the country's national resolve and reshaping the vote to choose who will lead Ottawa through the tariff storm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/18/world/canada-moment-new-zeitgeist-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #canada #markcarney #pierrepoilievre #us #donaldtrump #tariffs #trade #globaleconomy

#PierrePoilievre and his views about #nazis and #nazism.

No, Pierre. You are wrong. National socialists were as socialist as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.

The #CBC At Issue panel discusses last night's #LeadersDebate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q59fq-TsEgY&pp=ygUMY2JjIGF0IGlzc3Vl

It was a good debate for #PierrePoilievre, they say, and #MarkCarney showed his inexperience at politics. (FWIW, #Polymarket's odds for a Liberal win went up about 2% at the end of the debate, and then drifted down by the same amount.)

#ChantalHébert points out that if the #CPC were to go up in overall support, that would likely push more NDP/BQ voters to the Liberals in response.

Canada’s tech leaders bet the Conservative Party would form the next government.

Now that they’re poised to lose, tech executives haven’t been nearly as vocal — likely because they see Mark Carney as a potential ally.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/faltering-conservative-support-wont

"Maintenant que j'ai repris le contrôle de mon compte, je peux dire qu'objectivement, Poilievre a gagné le débat. Oubliez les analyses à 5 cennes qui disent que Carney a gagné parce qu'il ne s’est pas mis à parler chinois en plein milieu du débat. Il faut évaluer les performances selon les objectifs de chaque candidat."

#JeanPhilippeFournier

Suivre le lien pour plus de son analyse: https://x.com/JeanPFournier/status/1912908311994728826

#PierrePoilievre #MarkCarney
#DébatDesChefs
#CanPol #cdnpoli #elxn45

“Few in the media appear to take Poilievre's longstanding rants and threats seriously.”
This is what US media claimed about #donald and he’s already got concentration camps in El Salvador that will torture innocent men. The next logical step will be extermination.
Do Canadians really believe that #PierrePoilievre is just blowing hot air?

“Those who fail to heed, will be made to feel.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/charlieangus/p/book-burners-on-the-march?r=2b7uvn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

In the Carleton riding, Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy thinks he has a chance of winning thanks to the seeds Pierre Poilievre has sown there:

“Fanjoy calls Poilievre a ‘dream opponent,’ noting that, even on his home turf, the Conservative leader is ‘uniquely unlikeable – people are not unopinionated about him.’”

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/bruce-fanjoy-pierre-poilievre-carleton

In a country where hockey is sacrosanct, Canadian politics made a tactical shift to avoid clashing with a critical Montreal Canadiens game. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/04/17/more-sports/canada-debate-montreal-canadiens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #montrealcanadiens #canada #markcarney #pierrepoilievre #nhl

Maybe after Canadian reporters are done asking #PierrePoilievre about why he can't/shan't/whatever apply for a even a 'reliable' security clearance (the most basic entry level of Canadian security clearances)

they ought to start asking Danielle Smith if SHE can get/has entry-level Canadian security clearance?

#Imjustaskingquestionshere

The Lucky #PierrePoilievre can't/won't/whatever even get the lowest tier 'reliable' security clearance

You know, the kind that everyone starts with, and would be REQUIRED for a STUDENT'S SUMMER JOB at any gov't agency.

In Security-Speak, the leader of the oppositon and the #CPC isn't even

RELIABLE!

Dear Canada,

Anyone who has looked at the political agenda of Pierre Poilievre knows that he’s the Trump of the North. Don’t make the same mistake that America made by re-electing Trump.

Thx,
Hammy

Promising to Use the Notwithstanding Clause is Not Normal Politics

Pierre Poilievre announced that he intends on using the notwithstanding clause. This is not normal politics by any means.

https://www.freezenet.ca/promising-to-use-the-notwithstanding-clause-is-not-normal-politics/

While #Trump is illegally ignoring Supreme Court decisions in order to advance his #fascist agenda, #PierrePoilievre, as Prime Minister, would seek to use, for the first time ever by the federal government, the Canadian Constitution's #NotwithstandingClause in order to end what he calls "#WokeCulture" in the #PublicService and in the #military.

But he denies being a "mini-Trump"

#NeverPoilievre #LGBTQrights #AbortionRights #HumanRights #NeverVoteConservative
#Never51