Guy living in the government funded house for the leader of the official opposition, even though he is not the leader of the official opposition, suggests the PM isn't being ethical.
This isn't an endorsement for Pierre, but treating this as an controversy is misleading and ingenuine.
The leader of the opposition literally told Pierre to stay there. I watched this interview live when parliament resumed in May:
"Given that Mr. Poilievre hopes to be re-elected as a Member of Parliament in a few months and Prime Minister Carney promised to hold the byelection quickly, it would be more costly to taxpayers to move the family out and then right back into the residence," Scheer said in a statement to CBC News."
Given the treasure trove of criticisms to bring to light about Pierre Pollieve's policies, this obfuscates the importance of the real issues and makes people who oppose Pierre look foolish at best.
I get it. I also get that the reason this is an issue is because he lost a seat he held for 20 years and needs help from others to keep his job and house. He talks about personal responsibility and then asks for handouts when he loses. He talks about government elites and then uses his political status to get special treatment. It is an example of his hypocrisy.
It's almost comical that his election tagline was, "vote for change", and then he refused to accept the change his constituents voted for.
Valid point. Seeing it from that perspective almost makes me just as angry, but am refusing to 😅
Thing is, the hypocrisy is invisible and meaningless to his voters. But if you ever have the chance for respectful dialog with them, maybe there will be an opportunity to change some views.
And we want you to fuck off, PP.
This is Canada, oligopoly and corruption is a part of our heritage.
And I want PP to fuck off, but sadly he doesn't seem like he's gonna stop suckling at the taxpayers' teat anytime soon.
Edit: a typo
Why is this guy still around?
Polievre still doesn't understand how a blind trust works eh?
He understands it perfectly well, but he knows a large chunk of his base doesn't
"We're calling on the Prime Minister to sell his investments, turn them into cash, hand them to a trustee who can invest them in a way that is completely blind to him so that he does not have any knowledge of what he owns"
I assumed this was what a blind trust is, can you educate me what a blind trust actually is?
Rather than having a fire sale (selling all investments, which implies in the short term), the trustee sells and buys investments as he sees fit without consulting the owner. It's just Poilievre adding a step that seems obvious to the ignorant and harms the person he's attacking.
Carney was kind enough to let you squat in Stornoway, Pierre. Pretty ungrateful.
Poilievre just wants to get his name in the news media. Any excuse or frivolous point will do.
Ok but only if PeePee gets security clearance!
Just put the fries in the bag, Peter Polliver. Oh wait, your non-existent skill-set makes you ineligible for even that sort of job.
It is a blind trust fuckwit.... What is wrong with you... Just go away loser...
This is the most significant nit he can find to pick‽
Fine by me. Most of the policies Carney proposed will support big companies and people with stocks.
If Carney sells his stocks and doesn't have investments he'll be like a significant proportion of Canadians.
Join us, rich boy.
(And Poilievre can sell his ten rental properties and donate his parliamentary pension to cats or something)
It’s a blind trust. Maybe they’ve already been sold. He doesn’t know. And because it’s in a blind trust, if he did want them sold he:
This is as stupid as the excuses to not get a security clearance
If he cashes out of his investments, then what does PP expect him to do, hold a massive cash position, and eat inflation?
His quote is one sentence, and if you hold on to the end (I know, it's hard) you'll see your answer.
"We're calling on the Prime Minister to sell his investments, turn them into cash, hand them to a trustee who can invest them in a way that is completely blind to him so that he does not have any knowledge of what he owns," Poilievre said.
I wish people would stop rushing to shit their opinions out based on headlines
He's already holding his investments in a blind trust. If he CASHED out his blind trust, then what is he supposed to do?
I think Pierre's goalpost moving is stupid and I don't agree with him but he's saying that it be converted to cash and then reinvested so that Carney doesn't know what's in it.
Handing your existing assets to a trust, you don't generally expect them to randomize your entire portfolio, so of course it'll be similar to what you put in at the time you get it back
Nobody else has ever been expected to do this and it's a bullshit bad faith argument, but that's his reasoning
And why would the chosen investment strategy be any different from what he already had....? Like, whoever he chooses to manage the trust is going to be aligned with whatever Carney's preferred investment strategy is... and if that hasn't changed, the portfolio is going to look quite similar. Adding an extra step where you cash out and buy back similar assets... it's silly.
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