#PP4PM

Canada might come to its senses soon enough, possibly even this spring. Pierre Poilievre (#PP4PM) just torched Canada's Liberal prime with a beautiful takedown. The Conservatives set a trap and the Liberals walked right in. It was beautiful.

What happened between Trump and Poilievre?

Is this the real reason Trump torpedoed Canada's conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre explained in this video? It makes a lot of logical sense.

Unfortunately Canadian people and conservatives are caught in the middle of a disrespectful treatment. Canada is sinking and we could have avoided it but for a stupid phone call.

For those of you keeping score

Canada's newly elected, and clearly floundering prime minister (liberal leftist nut) Mark Carney, did exactly what I was telling friends before the election. After stealing all of conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's ideas to get elected, he's reneging on all of them. There are a lot of stupid Canadians who fell for this trick.

This is kind of old news now, but expect more of the same to come.

Quick Canada Update

For my American friends, Canadian conservatives have not given up. Not at all. The conservative party leader is plotting a comeback path, and starting not tomorrow, not next week; it's already started.

Canadian Election Disaster Trilogy

This is not the total disaster I had feared. Liberal, World Economic Forum golden boy Mark Carney was parachuted in to save the Liberal Party of Canada from the disaster known as Justin Trudeau. Notice he wasn't parachuted in to save Canada, but to save the Liberal Party. Pick your theatrical villain, this guy is it: 

Yep, that's him with the associate of you-know-who.

Sadly, Canada is full of uninformed people (due largely to our lock-step Leftist media), weak-willed cowards with a knee-jerk reaction to president Trump's tariffs.  

Going into the election, the Conservative party had a somewhat charismatic (in an understated way) leader unafraid to take on the media, unafraid to talk common sense. He was winning so much support, it looked possible that the Liberal party could be actually wiped out entirely. Less than four months ago, Conservatives were a certainty. Meanwhile the Liberals had historically unpopular Justin Trudeau. A global laughing stock of a leader.  After a decade people tend to tire of the incumbents, that's true anywhere not just Canada. 

There was a lot that went wrong with Canada's populist revival, and it was a perfect storm of sh@% that resulted in a Liberal 4th consecutive term, albeit barely. What happened? Three things mainly.

One - Too soon, too personal

Well the first problem was the Conservative party's strategy worked too well. Once Pierre Poilievre was elected leader of the party the strategy to demonize Justin Trudeau starting years before the election date worked. It worked so well, that along with Justin Trudeau's own contribution of ineptitude and horrible policies,  the Liberals approval ratings were near flatline. The problem though was twofold. Firstly they started way too early. The other problem; it was too Trudeau-centric. The Conservative popularity soared and Trudeau's waned abysmally as he deserved. But because this happened a year before the mandated latest election date, and because it was so closely tied to Trudeau, the Liberal party was able to jettison Trudeau and solve both problems at once.  A 'fresh' 'new' face cleared punted the problem for the Liberals. 

True, nobody wanted Trudeau, not even liberal voters. But he was no longer on the ballot. The Conservatives were a victim of their own early success. Liberals had time to present themselves, along with a compliant media as revitalized and different.  It's not true, as has often been pointed out, but it became the perception. Liberal voters flocked back to Liberal support, abandoning the other parties (mostly the NDP) they had drifted towards.

 

Two - I have to say it; Donald Trump

At one point probably 60% of conservative voters in Canada were very much pro-Trump for America. President Trump coming in and going after Trudeau with tariffs was a real miscalculation. Canadians didn't see it as an attack on the Trudeau they for the most part detested. They saw it as an attack on Canada. We've been a loyal friend to the United States for over a century. This about face made no sense. There are trade issues on both sides for sure, but we're not China.

Trump created a climate of fear in Canada that permeated the election cycle. It was now about Canadian sovereignty. That gave Pierre Poilievre a no-win hand to play. Endorse Trump and seem anti-Canadian to most of the country or talk tough and say Canada First. He had to chose the latter or get decimated in the election. But choosing the latter meant that he was just like the Liberals. This may have also been a strategic mistake. There was probably a third path; a path of reconciliation with America.  A path of let's address the concerns of both countries. But it would have taken an enormous campaign to get that message through and per point one; the Conservatives went through a lot of budget before the election even got started and probably couldn't muster the resources to carry that off.

President Trump inserted himself into a Canadian election in a way that hurt Conservatives' election chances. It may have been a deliberately gamble to help the Conservatives but if so, it failed. Badly. While addressing trade grievances and fentanyl issues are certainly important and admirable, this was ill-timed and will end up hurting working class and middle class Canadians who are suffering badly already thanks to their Liberal overlords. I know, I am one of them. The Canadian economy for ordinary Canadians is on the ropes. This could spell the death of Canadian middle class. 

Three - Jagmeet Singh

The clown of a leader for the New Democratic Party (socialists), Jagmeet Singh was so self-serving that for years he propped up Justin Trudeau, holding on as long as he thought was possible. If he had had any backbone, Canada could have held an election any time over the last two years. Didn't happen. He kept Trudeau in power long enough to give the Liberals time for an alternative. Singh earned himself enough tenure for a lucrative lifetime government but he lost his own seat in parliament in the election as a result. He decimated his own party to a rump in parliament with virtually no power anymore. And it cost Canada. If he'd been less a Trudeau lacky Canada would have had a conservative Prime Minister and his NDP party would have been better off too. His selfish and progressive ambitions have made Canada a country on life support.

There's your trilogy of reasons for the disaster. There's a trilogy of disastrous outcomes for Canada, we are stuck with more World Economic Forum leftist leadership. We have a squandered opportunity for conservative populism and for a reinvigorated relationship with the United States

Not all is lost

I started by saying this was not the complete disaster it could have been. It's true.  The Liberals do not have a majority government in parliament. Support from the ruined NDP party won't be enough to keep them in power now. They are subject to a non-confidence motion and a snap election at any time. The conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois (who don't like the Conservatives but detest the Liberals) will likely see to it that the government lasts 18 months or less. My gut says 9 - 12 months. People will have time to see Carney is every bit the villain that Justin Trudeau was. A conservative majority is still a looming possibility, perhaps merely delayed.

Good luck Poilievre

Ergo, good luck Canada, tonight.

Canada's future will be decided in one week

I've been focusing a lot on Canada lately, and it's because I am truly scared for the future of my country, the soul of my country, and the survival of my country. We will know in less than a week.

Pierre Poilievre MUST win the Canadian election!

Here's why. The contrast here is so stark:

In Canada, conservative leader is recovering from post Trudeau leftist bump

In Canada the next federal election is on April 28th. Justin Trudeau's replacement (the equally awful Mark Carney), saw a massive polling swing in favor of the Liberal party, just because it was no longer Justin Trudeau running. The conservatives, who had been poised to win a massive super-majority, and provide a strong ally for Trump going forward, got swamped in polls post-Liberal-leadership-change and post-Trump-pronouncements. 

But as time wore on, the polls have started revert to the previous state. The question is will the trend have enough time to continue moving before election day.  Make no mistake a Liberal win here is terrible news for Canadians but also bad news for America as they will turn the tariff situation into an all out trade war. That's bad for everyone.

This man has to win Canada's coming election

More unintended consequences on Trump Canada tariffs

Just an FYI, this is worth the watch from a party that was sincerely and strongly pro-Trump just months ago:

Canada's Future-Failed Prime Minister

Mark Carney will be worse than Trudeau. Polling in Canada for the leftist Liberal party has soared in response to president Trump's tariff threats to Canada. What was inevitably going to be our version of Trump (Pierre Poilievre) this year is in definitely jeopardy. 

Should Mark Carney continue as Prime Minister past the election, Canada is destined to fail. Fast. Canada's failure would not be because of Trump, but rather failed and disproven Liberal socialist policies. Trump may be the boogeyman to Canadian media but the real monster is the power hungry, socialist monsters running our nation for the last decade.

Canada's new Prime Minister: same as the old boss

To our American friends, this new guy Mark Carney guy is merely a placeholder prime minister in Canada until the next election, when a real leader (seen in the video below), Pierre Poilievre wins and actually leads the country in the right direction.

Canada needs this guy

As much as America needs Trump, Canada needs Pierre Poilievre:

Canada (kinda) has a new leader

The governing Liberal party has elected a successor to Justin Trudeau; it's Mark Carney. Mark Carney does not have a seat in parliament. So technically....

It's also worth noting that the Liberal Party disqualified two thirds of the ballots cast during their leadership race. I know it's not quite the same as the Democratic Party in the U.S. that disqualified every vote from their 2024 primaries, but you have to factor in the exchange rate.

So who is Mark Carney? Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre put it best in this video:

Trade need not be a war

I honestly believe Trump is wrong blanketing Canada in with Mexico and China in his tariffs.  I'm a Canadian but have been a staunch Trump supporter. Attacking a primary trade partner is a mutually assured destruction scenario. Canadians have been burdened with the stupidity of Justin Trudeau and are sick of him. He has caused untold suffering on Canadians. But this is causing Canadians to rally around him. It's causing former Trump allies within Canada to taking a more combative stance. 

Pierre Poilievre is taken from the mold of Donald Trump; even he's no longer thinking the way he was two months ago.  Trump has torpedoed trade, torpedoed a friendly partner, torpedoed inflation fighting in both countries, he has torpedoed goodwill, he has torpedoed international markets, he has torpedoed conservatism in Canada that was on the rise. It's tarnished America's reputation in many, many countries. 

There are going to be unintended consequences that come out of this, guaranteed. They won't be small, and they could have a long lasting negative impact on all involved.

I get what Trump is trying to do, I do. I still support his agenda. But what he is doing with Canada, he is not going about in the most productive way.

Meanwhile in Canada (again)

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has surged back into a commanding lead after a brief period where left leaning voters were flirting with going back to support an eventual Justin Trudeau replacement (think of it as a a 'joyous' post-Let's-Go-Brandon honeymoon with Kamala Harris, but in this case it's an anybody-but-Trudeau honeymoon).  In any case, that period appears to be over:

He's mastered the art of answering questions

Pierre Poilievre is going to be Canada's next prime minister (Justin Trudeau's parliamentary delays and tricks aside). No small part of the reason is that he's mastered the art of answering questions and handling woke reporters. Masterfully.

Danielle Smith, another great Canadian politician

It's not only Pierre Poilievre in Canada that is making sense.  Danielle Smith is the premier (governor) of the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta is the Texas of Canada. She's a conservative and has been to see then president-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago and was at the president's inauguration yesterday.

She's a very vocal critic of Justin Trudeau and his abject failures on many fronts. She's also been rightly critical of fellow conservative and premier of Ontario Doug Ford, who is a conservative in the RINO mold. She's someone who is going to be able to work with president Trump in a mutually beneficial way for both Alberta and the United States.  

Push polling in Canada too

Allow me to preface this with an explainer.  

A lot of people think of push polling as a poll with a result that is designed to influence public opinion, which is technically not correct but still substantially correct. In reality, a push poll is an ostensible opinion poll in which the true objective is to sway voters using loaded or manipulative questions. In other words, it uses misleading questions to sway voter opinions. The misleading part is they skew the poll results by framing the question in a way that manipulates those polled. Those being polled may themselves change opinion based on the framing of the question.  Inevitably the poll result is skewed and publishing it further skews public opinion (or attempts to do so).

All that said, ultimately the public sees polls that could be very different from what the reality of public opinion is. People may question their own opinions as a result. It's a way to manipulate voters, and/or public opinion, plain and simple. But it's not real polling, it's an agenda driven exercise in propaganda.

Okay, on to Canada.

Pierre Poilievre, Canada's common sense conservative candidate has been decimating the Liberal party in polls. This of course is in large part due to Justin Trudeau's stench of putrid leadership and governance.  That's not hyperbole by the way. But it is also not entirely on Trudeau; his ineptitude, narcissism and tyrannical approach to governance merely opened the door. Trudeau, despite that, has defeated other conservative leaders prior to Pierre Poilievre.  Pierre Poilievre is different. He's changed. The Liberals have not. 

Justin Trudeau stepping aside as leader and using parliamentary tricks to stall the forcing of an election was supposed to help the Liberal party recover from its long, unimproved disastrous polling. It appears it did and Canadians are dumb enough to vote Liberal party again. But... push polling:

It turns out, the poll showing a Liberal recovery minus Trudeau, was a push poll.