I am of the opinion that the incompetence of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party was the main contributor to the Liberals' upset victory. Their entire platform was basically "get rid of Trudeau" and his infamous "carbon tax." When Trudeau resigned and the first thing his successor Mark Carney does is remove the carbon tax (
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Pierre strikes me as a sort of faux-populist: never goes hard on his pro-Canadian positions and wanted to look as moderate and un-offensive as possible to appease every generation. His biggest detraction was that he still wanted to import 250,000 'jeets as permanent residents into Canada per year (in a decrease cope;
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All these factors became Pierre's undoing because now he and the Conservatives are pretty seen as a slower status quo because they were all outmaneuvered by Carney. Carney picked the right time for an election where "Pierre = Trump" rhetoric was high and used it as an advantage. When the entire media and the establishment are against him, Pierre did nothing effective and Canadians saw him as "evil incarnate Drumpf" because he's right of Trudeau despite being a moderate left-winger and voted based on that. Pierre's appeasements failed as the boomers went heavily for the Liberals as they are wigger-retarded. Younger generations did not see Pierre as an effective person that will make change to a dead economy, monstrous housing crisis, and a destroyed healthcare system. Pierre and the Conservatives did not know how to maneuver around Carney's machinations when Carney portrayed himself as a moderate compared to Trudeau.
Because of how frightened the Conservative Party of being called "sexist," "racist," and "homophobic," they could not offer an effective alternative to the Liberals. Understandably, it is an extremely rough position that Pierre is in, and I get it, because all the cards were stacked against him. However, if you cannot whittle yourself out of that situation, what makes people think you can whittle out Canada out of its rock bottom situation that it is in? Trump used the media's attention on him and being called "sexist," "racist," and "homophobic" to his advantage that ultimately won him elections and now he is making the Republican Party, a party that originally despised him, obey his word and command as gospel to shape America as now recovering from its decline and decay.
Canada on the other hand? The nation is beholden to a man who wrote a political manifesto called
Values: Building a Better World for All, which a conservative on Reddit summarizes that it is not moral values that Carney is talking about but how a human and his quality of life is worth so little when a state must be totalitarian to save the planet from climate change. In addition, Carney argues that humans are unable to understand this value and this value must be overseen by the state.
collymolotov said:
Carney advocates in this text a totalitarian system of government in which each and every aspect of a persons life is controlled by powerful, centralized state authority, and to which all personal decisions are subject to ESG/DEI/Carbon Credit metrics. He explicitly advocates for a central bank digital currency linked to social credit scoring to facilitate this.
Carney explicitly states that a decrease in both the quality of life and the quantity of life (IE number of people, years of life lived) is acceptable in pursuit of this broader net-zero agenda, which is granted religious levels of latitude in how it can be imposed. It is effectively positioned as being the new state religion: literally everything in terms of public policy must revolve around achieving net-zero, including how individuals are permitted to invest and spend their own money.
Carney also explicitly states that the peoples of developed, advanced, first-world but carbon-intensive) countries like Canada should "look to the wisdom" of the most impoverished nations in the world when it comes to how they should expect to live under this regime, he explicitly cites Niger, the Central African Republic and similar countries as examples of the standard of living we should expect.
It is an argument for a return to feudalism, and a plan for how such a regime might viably be brought about.
Mark Carney is, in short, a viable candidate for being the literal fucking Antichrist if you believe in that sort of thing.
This subject was never discussed even once by the mainstream media in Canada during the 36 day election campaign, the shortest period permitted by law after he was installed in a Liberal Party leadership contest in which 89% of the vote was in his favour after 350,000 ballots were thrown out and his two anti-establishment challengers disqualified, the rules of which permit foreign citizens who affirm that they reside in Canada and children as young as 14 to cast a ballot. Ultimately roughly 150,000 internal party votes made him our Prime Minister after Justin Trudeau resigned. Mark Carney had never been elected to any previous office.
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And Pierre did not use this source of information against Carney at all.
This story reminds me of the 2020 Taiwan Presidential Election. Polls were favoring the pro-China Kuomintang because Tsai Ing-wen and her pro-Taiwan independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were atrocious in managing Taiwan. Their candidate for president was Han Kuo-yu, who managed to become mayor of Kaohsiung, a DPP stronghold, and thus is seen as a force where many DPP votes would defect to the Kuomintang.
However, the worst event for the Kuomintang and Han had happened, when China introduced the Extradition Act in Hong Kong where criminals would be extradited from the city to the mainland, spawning protests and riots in the millions that China was breaching the one country-two systems again after the 2014 protests and riots. Panic ensued in Taiwan, and anger grew towards Han and the Kuomintang because they were the pro-China party and that Taiwan's sovereignty could be threatened by a Chinese invasion and that the concept of a one country-two systems was dead.
Han and the Kuomintang were utterly trashed in the election, with Tsai winning a landslide of 57% votes. Han was soon forced to step down as mayor of Kaohsiung. Currently, the Kuomintang is in an extremely awkward position where they are Taiwan's only conservative party but with emphasis that Taiwan is a part of China in an island where the Chinese Communist Party is heavily despised. As such, they had only been gaining ground in local elections.
