Hes' a hypocrite of the highest order; a career politician that he ranted should not entrench themselves in our institutions in his early twenties before becoming an MP himself in his mid-twenties. He welcomed the Convey into Ottawa by handing out Coffee and Donuts. He recommends putting your money into Bitcoin, and those that followed his advice saw savings disappear when the coin crashed. He rails against the CBC being government funded while he himself, is largely government supported: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpchk3s4hU

The joke goes that you tell a politician is lying because they are moving their lips. If you want to know the truth, just pay attention to who donates. We made fun of Scheer for being in the pocket of 'big milk' and this feckless twit is receiving donations from real estate executives while claiming he's going to reverse course on our housing crisis: https://pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among-top-donors-to-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/

A vote for the CPC is a vote for a party lead by someone that doesn't care about the people voting for him and will make years of poor decisions.

.... doesn't feel your pain, but he's sure good at communicating it

Isn't that always been the conservative platform?

The dumb part is not that the conservatives run on this platform every election cycle

The dumb part is that the country falls for it every time

If you get beaten with a baseball bat every time you walk into that one alley way and you just keep going back there knowing you are going to get beaten again ... who's the dumb person? .. the guy with the baseball bat waiting for people to show up at his alleyway to beat? .. or the guy who keeps going to that alleyway knowing he is going to get beaten every time?

Awesome article. Funny, serious, smart and insightful at the same time. It cracked me up and worried me all at once.

"And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle."

How indeed. I look on transfixed...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau with his modest drama teacher resume, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Poilievre, who did little more than spend a couple years as a political staffer on Parliament Hill before becoming an MP.

And there’s no small irony to see Poilievre leading the feel-your-pain charge to find affordable housing while living in relative luxury of the well-staffed Official Opposition Leader’s mansion courtesy of taxpayers.

Of course, it’s great fun to bash the Bank of Canada governor for boosting interest rates to tame inflation, pledge to axe the carbon tax and blame demon gatekeepers for every bureaucratic obstruction to throwing up affordable housing boom on every vacant lot.

And how to unleash a house-building frenzy without protective bureaucrats when any rush to mass construction clearly requires adult supervision, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford so dangerously discovered in his greenbelt housing debacle.

So far, Poilievre seems disinclined to pivot policy in any direction, partly because his own MPs are worried their nominations to carry the Conservative banner into the next election will face the wrath of forces further right should party positions soften.

But as Poilievre reigns over his first convention, there’s little doubt that the snivelling political operative who regularly called me 20 years ago to complain about negative coverage of then-boss Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day is grown up and ready for a prime-time showdown.

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I can't get over the irony of Alpha males voting for cool Millhouse.