Canadian Anti-Trans Fear Mongers: Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
The economy takes a backseat to grievance politics
That’s one for the history books. The Conservative Party of Canada held their policy convention in Québec City this past weekend. As expected, delegates and attendees stayed razor-focused on the issues galvanizing Canadians across the nation: inflation, housing costs, grocery bills, climate change and out-of-control wildfires, and the need to reduce carbon emissions.
Just kidding, of course.
If you expected the equivalent of Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservaties of the 1980s, you came out of this sorely disappointed. If you’re in Canada and haven’t been living under a rock, then you know that since the pandemic and the ascension of Pierre Poilievre as party leader, the CPC has gone full MAGA.
The worst people in Canada, goaded on by a feckless opportunist in Poilievre, are relying on the professional grievance mongers at the National Post, The Toronto Sun, and Rebel News to tell them what to think. And they’re not telling them to think about the things that really matter.
The convention delegates and attendees did what everyone fully expected. Of the issues that they’ve spent the past eight years screaming about, and blaming Justin Trudeau for…
