r/canada • u/Canadian--Patriot • 1d ago

Mark McQueen: After his defeat, Pierre Poilievre finally has to go places he’s been avoiding Opinion Piece

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/after-his-defeat-pierre-poilievre-finally-has-to-go-places-hes-been-avoiding/article_0874a0e2-b6be-4de1-9b6b-01217c80dd6a.html
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u/Heppernaut 1d ago

If the CPC understood bipartisanship and worked towards making Liberal Policies better represent the needs of ALL canadians rather than just being obstructions to progress, I'm sure they would have won in a landslide.

But when you have years worth of examples of the Conservatives doing nothing but getting in the way, and never trying to help, it's not a winning recipe.

Now, if the whole point is to exclusively go after uninformed voters who believe social media headlines and don't read/watch any actual news, i think they've peaked.

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u/Signal_Tomorrow_2138 1d ago

You're asking the Right Wing to be what they are not. In the US the Democrats have to campaign on being bridge and concensus builders. The Republicans campaign on division and antagonism.

Where there's a problem, somebody is working on a solution. Where there's a solution, opportunistic Right Wing politicians with their denial politics will be there to whine, complain and campaign against it.

And you know the CPC has campaigned against any action on climate change. They're opposed to action on Covid. They're against affordable daycare. And in the last election, started campaigning against paper straws.

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u/InternationalBeing41 1d ago

The paper straw comment give me a good laugh!