Poilievre says Carney's moving in the 'wrong direction,' pledges to 'legalize' pipelines (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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For the 'Carney is basically just Poilievre' Crowd, a look at Poilievre's proposed legislation (note: this from about a month ago)

I've seen this take that Carney is just as bad as Poilievre more than a few times. And while Carney may not be as Green as some had hoped for but my goodness, the difference between him and Poilievre is staggering.

Figured it's worth posting the legislation that Poilievre put forward in August which includes removing pipeline regulations, scrapping the West Coast oil-tanker ban; killing the industrial carbon tax; eliminating the electric vehicle mandate and reversing the single-use plastics ban.

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[-] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

I think I'd take that bet!

I'm super curious how the base will see it. On the one hand, he did win a much larger percentage of the popular vote than most Conservative leaders have won while making inroads in traditionally Left areas.

But, he also lost one of the largest polling leads in modern Canadian history...

On the other hand, the Liberals won in large part because of voters from the NDP/Greens defected to the Liberals... But then how much of that was to keep Poilievre out versus some other Con?

You could go nuts going back and forth on that.

[-] charles@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Not only did he lose the lead, he failed to even get elected and had to be given the literal safest riding for a Conservative in the country to get a seat. Which I feel is not the best sign for someone who's career has entirely revolved around politics.