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Title: Poilievre's Conservative Party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories
Category: Political
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2023-08-13 18:25:26
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

And that is why he will never be Prime Minister.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And that is why he will never be Prime Minister.

Let's hope people don't split the urban vote and he runs up the middle into a minority government.

[DrCaleb]

I don't think Ontario and Quebec will fall for his dog whistles. Those provinces are needed for the CPC to gain enough seats for a minority government.

Ontario -> West seems to be immune to rationality.

[xerxes]

Don’t count PP out so easily. There is a lot of unease in Canadian public from housing prices to inflation the overall cost of living and other points in between. And Trudeau and the LPC seem really tone deaf about it. Like with immigration. They want to keep current high immigration levels for the foreseeable future despite there being a distinct lack of housing for everyone already living here. Not to mention the infrastructure for such a rapidly expanding population (schools, healthcare, etc) not being there either. The federal government is foisting the problems it’s creating on the provinces and trying to act like the provinces are being whiny bitches.

I still won’t vote Tory mind you. But a lot of people are going to take a look at things and vote against the Liberals next election.

[Thanos]

You also have the added problem in that development, real estate sales, and property speculation are now the heart & soul of the Canadian economy. And neither the Liberals or Conservatives will do anything to upset that paradigm when they're in power. As such there will be no grand national housing initiative from either party because neither of them are interested in going against the real estate machine that donates to both parties and to a large extent actually writes the party policies on housing. Canada doesn't do grand national initiatives anymore anyway and hasn't for decades. Doing one today would be too much of a reminder of the way things were under our old British tradition, and all the forces imaginable would rally in strength in order to prevent something noble & great from the old world showing that such things might still be possible.

The Liberals won't do anything about it while in power. And the Conservatives are lying when they say they'll do something about it if they're put into power. Just like everything else in this country the situation will remain in the same stagnant state it's been in since the 1980's, when the real estate trends in Toronto & Vancouver that actively began pushing people of modest incomes out of those cities altogether first began. And now that scenario exists in every major population center in the country. And those who benefit from this situation have far too much money & influence that they're more than willing to deploy in full force to keep their apple cart from being upended.

There's too much money being made and far too much money still to be made for & by all the important rich people in this dopey nation of ours. Nothing will change any of this, no matter how much bluster these two mirror-images-of-each-other political parties spew out before the next election.

[Scape]

Does Pierre Poilievre touting conspiracy theories count as news?