Conservative leader Pierre Poilevre is another Donald Trump
By Lethbridge Herald on October 12, 2024.
Editor:
We agree with American late-night host Stephen Colbert that Poilievre is another Donald Trump. Oil executives point out that the Carbon Tax is the cheapest and most effective way to tackle Global Warming and 27 countries agree. Yet he is using it to fearmonger and wants the Rebates eliminated that are helping to put money in the pockets of fellow seniors who desperately need it, ignoring the fact that it was Conservatives who created it.
While praising the Convoy Truckers he showed no respect for the citizens of Ottawa or the police officers involved. Bashing Trudeau for using the Emergency Act to stop it, while police officer friends and relatives accused Poilievre of not carrying about how long it could go on and how much more of taxpayer’s money would be wasted. Wouldn’t a true conservative care?
Although Trudeau wants to make it safer for Canadians by eliminating Assault Rifles and Handguns Poilievre and Danielle Smith want the people to have the Right To Bear Arms like their American Republican counterparts do and show no concern for what we have seen happen in the U.S.
Poilievre has promised Albertans if they help him get elected he will destroy the CBC and it’s 9,429 jobs that was created by a conservative government to connect remote areas of Canada to the outside world and is still needed.
Unlike these Reformers, in the real-world Conservatives create jobs and do not destroy them and treat all people with dignity and respect, not just themselves and their Reform Party Pals like we are seeing. There is certainly nothing Conservative about them.
Alan K. Spiller
Edmonton
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Quite correct!
The lack of respect these Reformers show to our children and grandchildren have us true conservatives furious. This , “ we don’t give a damn about you attitude” while the idiot’s who support them hurl their sarcastic comments at us for not being as dumb as them is sickening.
Where do they think our children are going to find the $260 billion to clean up the orphan well mess that I was involved with for 8 years when Lougheed and Getty made the oil industry pay for it.
How can you be so stupid that you can watch what Global Warming is doing to the planet and your children’s future and not try to do something about it? Poilievre has proven he doesn’t care ,getting elected is all he cares about ,so he can destroy our Public Health Care System like he tried to help Stephen Harper do.
Good letter Alan. These are indeed scary times for Canadians when someone like Poilievre is suportred by so many Canadians. To become more electable, Poilievre has changed his image to now become”champion of the little guy”. These neo-conservative parties are simply a conduit for big corporations and the wealthiest amongst us, who have been trying to privatise what’s left of our heathcare system for decades.
Thanks all the true conservatives in my world feel the same way. Our retired doctors, nurses and teachers friends including family members, my sister was a Lab Technician at a hospital in Edmonton, all say the same thing. They were never treated like morons working under the conservatives under Lougheed and Getty. These Reformers have changed that. They don’t care about anyone other than themselves, the rich and their Reform Party supporter friends.
your points are spot on. notable is how the conservative option in politics is mostly gone, co-opted by intolerant and the most self serving types. the hallmark of the leadership of this disfigured “con” type expression is pretty much the demagogue.
you have provided good examples to underscore what used to be a viable, reasonable option for voters is no longer available.
federally, the present liberals have also proven to be a non option. the graft, utter corruption, ineptitude, the lies and cover ups have provided us with one of the very worst govts in canadian history. justin and crew have made this very easy for the likes of a demagogue to supplant the present narcissist. somehow, jagmeet just does not resonate enough as the better alternative. i dare say that the state of politics today is well reflected by the crumbling of our parliament buildings in ottawa, which are likely to be an ever ongoing massive money suck. their restoration is now years in the making, and the number of billions in costs keeps escalating, of course.
for the people that want change: it is highly unlikely change for the better is going to come from the very institutions that have overseen generations of demise. a best first step to stand for a better society is to reject what has become a farce. next election, write in an alternative or x-out your ballot. that will not immediately change much, but it will not justify the current, and too long ongoing trend, and it will send a message that we have had enough of being taken.
Ridiculous comment(s) Mr. SPILLER, once again you need to get with the times, things (everything) has changed and continues to change… the CBC is NOT what it used to be! Take your head out if the sand, look at instant reality, (Bill C-11) for example.
You may want to consider another change that will soon be upon us (thankfully) a Poilievre, Conservative Government.
Well at least PP’s moral compass/political agenda aligns with yours HP. Nothing to be proud of though. Both Trump and Poilievre study the same play book, so I have no doubt you also bow at the altar of the vitriolic, lying bombastic bully from our southern neighbour.
“Carbon tax is the cheapest and most effective way to tackle global warming”? How so? 27 politicians agree! Not for the climate. For the tax. More of citizens money to play with. 270 private planes flying to a lavish “climate summit “. When they live and lead by example they may gain some credibility.
That some live by the adage “do as I say, not as I do” , belies the fact that most economists agree that at least in principal, the C Tax is the fairest approach to mitigating climate change. Perhaps you would rather live in a world where the last two hurricanes several days apart become the norm? And don’t think for one moment that southern Alberta is immune from climate warming/change because it is not.
How has the tax been doing so far? Any noticeable improvements in the weather or do we just need to succumb to providing dear leaders all of our income to satisfy the weather gods.
Your response just goes to show how little you understand about the “weather”. Further, your inability to see the miserable future for your grandchildren and others around the world if the warming planet is not mitigated. As if the weather changes on a dime or a simple whim.
hmm, how quickly might we turn around our net effect on climate? have we ploughed away any of the vast tracts of concrete spaces that once were wetlands, forests, meadows and returned them to the great tracts of service they were to the planet’s health and balance?
no, we continue to practice the very same stupid and nasty approaches to our world, all so that govts can claim higher mcjobs numbers and so that the skimmers and manipulators of human labour can keep on raking it in – that top 1% of the top 1% that is always raking in fortunes no matter how the “economy” is doing for the minions.
with regard to the carbon tax, the problem remains: our practices and approaches need to change, and big time. too many people focused on wants driven ends. i believe all the carbon taxes in the world will do little to nothing to remedy our issues. moreover, all the bogus “carbon” capture/trade an sleight of hand and deflection, which is most about moving more public money into private hands, will do nothing toward what needs to become sustainable living and cleaning up our mess.
The problem with our Carbon Tax is it isn’t doing anything largely because of the rebates. The whole idea is obviously to make carbon expensive so we all use less of it, makes sense right? But with approximately 80% of the people receiving more back in rebates the purpose is absolutely defeated. If we want the Carbon Tax to be effective we have to get rid of the rebates, make Canadians more broke so they cannot afford to do anything optional which consumes carbon, stop heating and cooling their homes etc. Although honestly Canada’s net contribution of carbon into the atmosphere is so insignificant it truly doesn’t matter what we do, we’re just a virtue signalling country.
So like Poilievre and Trump you don’t care what they say or do to get elected and you don’t care who they hurt in the process? You show no concern for what Global Warming is doing to planet and what it’s costing to fight it and you show no respect for what it’s doing to our children and grandchildren’s future?
Can you explain where our children are going to find the $260 billion orphan well cleanup mess you helped create and can you see any reason why we shouldn’t hold you financially responsible to help pay for it, do you want to try? Can you prove what makes you smarter than our oil executives who wanted the Carbon Taxes implemented and when Harper refused to implement them Obama refused to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and Albertans lost billions in oil revenues. Obama wasn’t stupid he knows we need to try to do something about global warming.
To put it bluntly more and more Conservatives are sick and tired of you idiots who support these Reformers and don’t care about the financial mess they have created, so why shouldn’t you be made to pay for it, lawyers state there is nothing stopping us? When your sarcastic remarks and actions are hurting the wellbeing of the people you can be held responsible, like seniors who desperately need the money these rebates are bringing them, that you want to destroy? Do you want to try?
So while the mindless seniors have shown their true colours they don’t care what global warming is doing to the planet and the billions it’s costing or the lives lost. They don’t care that young Albertans are deeply concerned about global warming will do to their future.
Self centred fools who don’t care because it won’t effect them and are more than willing to let these Reformers ram their policies down their throats, like Ralph Klein did, and allow Pierre Poilievre to destroy their Public Health Care System like he tried to do with Stephen Harper. They can’t wait to start paying $800. to $1,000. per month each like Americans are forced to do, and don’t care how it will effect their children.
In fact they are a pathetic group of human being , just like the seniors we are seeing supporting Donald Trump. Too dumb to realize what it will do to their families.
But then as lawyer friends state “ Why do you give a damn about 20 stupid seniors out of a population of around 108,000 people”. Good point isn’t I really don’t. We know how stupid they really are.