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Conservative leader has “X” spat with NDP leader. Singh owns Poilievre, then Scheer chimes in to own…Scheer?

Jason Pugh Oct 7, 2023

Oh, how I love writing about this kind of thing. You could even say it’s my bread and butter.

On Wednesday, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh made this post on “X.”

Here’s a link to the article:

NDP leader calls on government to adopt legislation to lower food prices

The following morning, the Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Pierre “$120 Turkey” Poilievre, responded with this:


(Why the screenshot? Why not just retwee…er, I mean “repost” Jagmeet’s “X”?)

A few people called PP out on his whole “you’ve been in government “X” many years” hypocrisy:

Andrew posed (@AndrewCote91) a great question:

Seems as though Pierre’s Cons aren’t actually interested in helping people. They voted against dental care, $10/day childcare.

Pierre Poilievre likes his slogans. Well how about this for a slogan about Pierre?

“Childcare, Dentalcare, Healthcare – Pierre DOES’NT care!”

VGRaces (@GraceyV6) asks another great question:

Nothing. AFAIK Pierre Poilievre’s only accomplishment as a Member of Parliament was the Orwellian named “Fair” Elections Act – which was anything but.

Mat Schmaltz (@mat_schmaltz) makes a point:

Conservatives are constantly lying saying it’s the NDP/Liberal coalition government.

After Greg Fergus was elected Speaker of the House of Commons on Tuesday he gave a speech calling for greater respect in the house.

Liberal MP Greg Fergus elected Speaker of the House of Commons

Later that day, they held the first QP with Fergus as speaker. MPs were, for the most part, well-behaved.

(Poilievre, of course, acted out like the toddler he is. Both during his speech congratulating Fergus and then starting to speak before Fergus has recognized him during QP. I’m not gonna show clips of it here. PP wanted to make the day about himself.)

After question period, Liberal MP for Fleetwood—Port Kells, Ken Hardie, rose on a point of order to address PP and the Con’s lies:


So, anyways. Back to the “X” spat.

So later the same day after Pierre’s tweet Jagmeet “clapped back” with this:

Poilievre has yet to respond but, why would he, when he has former Conservative Party of Canada leader and minivan enthusiast Andrew Scheer on the job?

To which I responded:

But, here’s the thing.

According to this article the bread companies started talking with one another to hatch their little scheme in 2007.

Canada Bread agrees to $50M fine for role in bread price-fixing scandal

“The documents filed at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto lay out what happened. They show that the executives discussed raising prices in June 2007, and subsequently agreed to do so by between six and seven cents per loaf in October of that year. After more discussions in September, they agreed to raise prices by twice that — 12 to 14 cents — starting the next month.
The pattern was repeated a few years later, with discussions in November 2010, leading to an agreement to raise prices by seven cents per loaf starting in January or March of 2011. A subsequent meeting in January led to an agreement to increase the price hike to 14 cents per loaf instead, starting in February.”

If memory serves Stephen Harper was elected Prime Minister of Canada back in 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Harper#2006_federal_election. I’m pretty sure 2007 comes shortly after that.

Plus, Scheer and PP were elected as Members of Parliament back in 2004.

Poilievre entered the 38th Canadian Parliament at the age of 25 along with Andrew Scheer as the youngest members of the Conservative caucus.[32] Poilievre introduced himself and his young colleagues to media outlets as “libertarian-minded” members of the party.[33][34] Poilievre was given the nickname “Skippy” early in his political career.

So, what’s going on here? Is Scheer saying that it started before The Harper Government ™ was elected, and it only took them EIGHT years to do something about it?

Or is he lying and knows that it didn’t start until AFTER The Harper Government ™ was elected just to muddy the waters? Which means it still took them SEVEN years to do something?

UPDATE: Poilievre Just responded with this:

So Conservatives keep saying it’s been “eight years” of Trudeau, and now Scheer is claiming that something that occurred while he and Poilievre were part of The Harper Government actually occurred years earlier.

People have been saying that if they lie about the small things, they’ll lie about the big things.

Does time itself count as one of the big things?

JP

Jason Pugh

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