Pierre Poilievre

2022 - 6 - 26

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'I'm very worried': Former Tory Senate leader on Poilievre, convoys ... (Globalnews.ca)

Conservatives risk "fracturing beyond repair" over its convoy support and fractious leadership contest, says a former Stephen Harper advisor and ...

“We have to be electable. Poilievre by no means has had a monopoly on personal attacks, but his barbs against former Quebec premier Jean Charest and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown have been particularly pointed. LeBreton is one of the most high-profile Conservative figures to criticize her own party for their embrace of the convoy protests, but she is by no means alone. And illegal blockades are illegal blockades, whether they’re at the border crossing, a pipeline, a railway line, they’re illegal,” LeBreton said, referencing Conservative opposition to Indigenous rail blockades in early 2020. She told Global News she resigned from Poilievre’s Carleton riding board of directors over his repeated support for the convoy crew. The former senator said “law and order” is a “cornerstone” of modern Conservative politics.

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“I'm very worried”: Poilievre, former Tory Senate leader on the future ... (Eminetra Canada)

Former Conservative leaders have expressed concern about the direction Pierre Poirievre is taking, worried that the Tories may have reached the stage of ...

LeBreton is one of the most famous conservatives who criticize his party for accepting convoy protests, but she is by no means the only one. She told Global News that she had resigned from Poilievre’s Carleton board because of his repeated support for the fleet’s crew. “The wonderful accommodations reached between Stephen Harper (then leader of the Canadian Alliance) and Peter MacKay (formerly the leader of the Progressive Conservatives) in the fall of 2003 have been irreparably destroyed. “We must be electable. He mentioned conservative opposition to the indigenous people’s railroad blockage earlier in the year. Le Breton clarified the cause of her greatest concern.

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Protecting free speech on campus? Forget about it, Pierre Poilievre ... (albertapolitics.ca)

Conservative Party of Canada leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre (Photo: Facebook/Pierre Poilievre). Federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre ...

As we have learned in the past week, though, longer term such demands can be a real indicator of risk to our rights as citizens. Never mind Mr. Kenney’s decree as federal immigration minister in 2009 banning George Galloway from Canada on the spurious grounds the left-wing British Parliamentarian was a threat to national security. Moreover, the legislation would have to be competently drafted and rigorously abided by – neither a strong suit of CPC governments in the recent past, as former prime minister Stephen Harper’s lack of success on the pipeline file clearly illustrates. The statement and its supporters make a straw man of safe spaces where marginalized student groups can gather free from harassment by people who dislike or disagree with them. If freedom of expression were the real concern, of course, no action would be required. The rest of us are intended to miss it, and to ask, “Well, who doesn’t support free speech?”

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