>Is Mr. Poilievre ready for this? Nothing in his character fills one with confidence. The adolescent pugnacity, the flinty, chip-on-the-shoulder defensiveness – these are the traits of a deeply insecure person, anxious at all times that others should recognize him as the top dog.
>In the face of the inevitable separatist provocation, would he have the patience and the fortitude neither to lash back, nor to give in, but to maintain a position of genial immovability, steadfast and calm? Or would he fall prey to the temptation, as other leaders have before him, to “fix the Quebec problem”?
Makes you wonder how a potential Prime Minister Pierre would handle ANY crisis. His past track record would imply “poorly”
PeregrineThe on
Well when you borrow money, at a proportional scale greater than WW2, to prop up the mortgage bond market and other creditors. Then try to stave off wage-price-spirals with ridiculous immigration levels. You effectively divide the country into two classes. Those with assets, who will not feel the effect of these policies because their assets are appreciating. And those without, who are being taxed through inflation to support the other.
Mihairokov on
> In 2011, for example: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a majority nationwide, but just five seats in Quebec. No great calamity ensued. Maybe none will again.
Why do I get the feeling a Poilievre government would antagonize Quebec far more than Harper ever did? I feel like the knives would come out the second Poilievre is soft on Quebec on X issue, and then he would reflexively come down harder on them. Pissing off Quebec feeds his base more than it fed Harper’s base, especially if he can angle it as retribution for whatever nonsense Trudeau had done in the past.
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>Is Mr. Poilievre ready for this? Nothing in his character fills one with confidence. The adolescent pugnacity, the flinty, chip-on-the-shoulder defensiveness – these are the traits of a deeply insecure person, anxious at all times that others should recognize him as the top dog.
>In the face of the inevitable separatist provocation, would he have the patience and the fortitude neither to lash back, nor to give in, but to maintain a position of genial immovability, steadfast and calm? Or would he fall prey to the temptation, as other leaders have before him, to “fix the Quebec problem”?
Makes you wonder how a potential Prime Minister Pierre would handle ANY crisis. His past track record would imply “poorly”
Well when you borrow money, at a proportional scale greater than WW2, to prop up the mortgage bond market and other creditors. Then try to stave off wage-price-spirals with ridiculous immigration levels. You effectively divide the country into two classes. Those with assets, who will not feel the effect of these policies because their assets are appreciating. And those without, who are being taxed through inflation to support the other.
> In 2011, for example: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a majority nationwide, but just five seats in Quebec. No great calamity ensued. Maybe none will again.
Why do I get the feeling a Poilievre government would antagonize Quebec far more than Harper ever did? I feel like the knives would come out the second Poilievre is soft on Quebec on X issue, and then he would reflexively come down harder on them. Pissing off Quebec feeds his base more than it fed Harper’s base, especially if he can angle it as retribution for whatever nonsense Trudeau had done in the past.