Over the past year, if you asked around Ottawa about the transition team that was planning Pierre Poilievre’s first days in government, you were likely to be met with shrugs. The members of the team were not named, and those in the know were not talking.
Such discipline, however, sometimes falters under the influence of a few drinks. That’s what Bryan Evans, a political science professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, found out in late 2024. Around the winter holidays, he ducked into his neighbourhood bar and ran into an old acquaintance. The man wasn’t himself on the transition team, but it turned out he was deeply informed. They slid onto stools for a conversation.
The group was preparing for a Poilievre government to hit the ground running. It was going to be a blitzkrieg.
“You were there at the start of the Mike Harris government.”
“Yeah,” Evans said.
“That’s going to be the playbook.”
It was an ominous sign.
I’m so tired of Conservatives wanting to shred the social safety net that makes Canada such a great place to live. They’re constantly trying to unilaterally reduce the quality of life of most of the country and yet they still form government without even trying.
Someone needs to run an advertising campaign that compares the year-over-year dollar amounts of the spending and cuts of various governments so we can dispel the myth of the party of fiscal responsibility. Especially when it comes to tax cuts - you can cut taxes for the lowest bracket and it still mostly benefits rich people. And then you get, what, maybe an extra $700 at tax time?
The Conservatives are stealing our country’s prosperity.
They are still doing it. Fuck it up, sell it off, privatize it. You think doug traitor ford has stopped ? They started fucking up schools 30 years ago, and are still working on it, just like the us. They aren’t going to stop, they’ll just keep lying about it. Conservatives, all of them, are traitors.
Hi, can you point out where I said they stopped? Your comment confuses me because I overwhelmingly agree with you and yet it sounds like a criticism of my comment.