Pierre Poilievre Wants Radical Austerity for Canada (jacobin.com)

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[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

Man who's only job, ever, was member of Parliament complains that taxation is theft.

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

And sits on multi millions earned from....?

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

... sucking off Harper's teat and lazing around parliament whining about how bad the Liberals are.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

It's muddy, but his net worth is estimated at $1-5 million OR $25m+. So either way he's not mega-rich, somewhat to extraordinarily well off for a career politician no doubt. Admittedly, I only spent about 15mins looking into it, but everything I saw essentially says the same thing:

Net worth ~$1-5 million OR $25million+(hard to tell what's legit here, there's not much that doesn't reek of speculation).
Income sources are political wages, consultant firm, property(ies?), book royalties and investments.

That's pretty much it. I'm not even sure I trust either number to be factual, there's no sources stated for figures. I'm not a Tory, I firmly believe that they're the antithesis of what it means to be Canadian. If anyone can firm numbers, I'd love to see them.