On Tuesday, with six days to go before election day, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party released its platform. It’s a thin offering with fewer than two dozen pages of ideas, fewer still if you cut the many photos that fill out the page below or beside the text. The platform fails to meet the moment.
You can tell why Poilievre waited so long to share it, or may wonder why he bothered to release it at all — it’s thin gruel, costed by way of magical thinking and full of more than one questionable proposal. And while there is plenty to criticize about the Tory plan, one promise stood out as so egregiously foolish and gimmicky that it ought to be disqualifying on its own, calling into doubt if the Conservatives really want to govern at all.
If elected, the Conservatives are promising to cut taxes, “never” raise them again and pass a “Taxpayer Protection Act” that would “ban new or higher federal taxes without asking taxpayers first in a referendum.”
The rest of the article provides many reasons why this is a dumb idea. “Unserious” is a great word to describe PP and his CPC
And then they run ads with Harper saying Conservatives are the ONLY ones with a plan, and Pierre is the ONLY one that can save us. They are sure trying to appeal to the uneducated voter with this Trump/Nazi like rhetoric.
Or even better yet the ad with two old boomers golfing and complaining about having to financially help their kids out… out of touch with reality…
The fact that those ads didn’t show Pierre at all is quite telling.
Cut immigration, tie it to housing, force municipals to rezone by withholding funding if they don’t.
Those alone will help the poor dramatically more than anything the Liberals will do. Since rents are peoples greatest cost, and its doubled in less than a decade. That’s all they had to do…
