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Poilievre Gives A Clear Answer: As Canada Burns he Prioritizes Spreading Conspiracies to Court Far-Right

Jason Pugh Aug 19, 2023

More than 1000 fires are burning across Canada.

In British Columbia and the Northwest Territories thousands have been evacuated or are on evacuation notice.

    (Source: CBC – Map showing significant fires in British Columbia)

The other day while campaigning on Prince Edward Island, reporter Theresa Wright asked Pierre Poilievre if he intentionally uses language and rhetoric intended to court the far-right.

This was his response:

Instead of answering the question like a well-adjusted adult, he threw a temper tantrum and kept barking out the same question over and over at the reporter.

This is what the reporter was referring to. (Something that Andrew Lawton and the alt-right gang pretended to ignore so they could praise Poilievre for “shutting her down.”)

Poilievre’s Conservative party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories

“It’s far past time we rejected the globalist Davos elites and bring home the common sense of the common people,” said a Saturday fundraising email.
The Conservative party also recently sent out mailers with a poll asking people to tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who they think the prime minister should stand with: working Canadians or the World Economic Forum.

Duane Bratt, political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said some people have long embraced conspiracies, but now they have moved into mainstream politics.

“The big shift that we have seen is that it is now being promoted by someone who could be prime minister,” said Bratt.

So, of course, Poilievre moved on without answering her actual question.

Well, today, he answered that question. Loud and clear.

Clay Thompson (@harryt59_harry) responded with this to Poilievre’s tweet about the wildfires:

That’s right.

As fires rage across Canada and around the world, Pierre Poilievre made it clear that his top priority is to play politics and court the far-right by spreading conspiracies.

Before tweeting about his concern for those affected by the wildfires, Poilievre tweeted this:

Conservatives always say that Canada’s efforts to fight climate change are just a drop in the bucket and that it’s all for naught if countries like China don’t get on board.

So what is Poilievre’s/Conservatives’ reaction to the Canadian government doing something about just that by having Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault head to Beijing to attend a meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development?

Politicize it. Spin it. Turn it into a negative. Poilievre tweeted that Guilbeault is “working for” the Chinese government.

Yesterday journalist Dale Smith tweeted this:

He’s 100% right. As that’s precisley what they said about Hurricane Fiona:

Poilievre and the CPC have proven time and time again that human life itself is of tertiary concern to them. The politics of hate, fear and division to gain power is all that matters.

While this was the scene in Kelowna:

Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Kelowna-Lake Country, Tracy Gray, posted this:

Priorities. Priorities.

The world is burning and Pierre Poilievre’s TOP priority is to court the far-right by spreading conspiracies.

JP

Jason Pugh

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