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    Pierre Poilievre is right: Fire the gatekeepers, starting with the lifelong politicia

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-conservative-leadership-pierre-poilievre-gatekeepers/

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    Pierre Poilievre is right: Fire the gatekeepers, starting with the lifelong politicians

    I’m with Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre: fire the gatekeepers. Banish them from Canada. As Mr. Poilievre says, it’s time to make this country the “freest on earth,” and the only way to do that is through an incoherent collection of restrictions on certain individuals, groups or institutions, such as banning the Bank of Canada from developing a digital currency. And by firing its governor. That’s the type of political meddling that only the freest countries in the world entertain, and Mr. Poilievre is the man to lead this wayward flock to graze on his field of dreams.

    The worst of the gatekeepers, as we all know, are the lifelong politicians: the men and women who have never stepped foot in the real world except to pose for cheesy photo-ops and maybe to find someone to clean their income properties. They are the ones who joined political parties before they could vote, who have been living off taxpayers since they were barely old enough to rent a car, and who earned a generous public pension at the ripe old age of 31, when many Canadians nowadays can barely afford to move out of their parents’ home.

    These gatekeepers like to pretend they don’t have extraordinary influence and control over the lives of Canadians, which is a good way to garner populist support and thus acquire greater influence and control over the lives of Canadians. Mr. Poilievre, who I’ll assume has toiled in Canada’s cruel and unforgiving mines for years (cryptocurrency mines count, yes?), is clearly the antithesis of the permanently on-the-public-teat type, because it’s possible he once raked leaves for a neighbour as a child and therefore earned a few private-sector dollars.

    Mr. Poilievre has said for months that he will remove the gatekeepers who have massively increased the price you pay at the gas pump (I guess that means he will lead a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin) and banish the gatekeepers who have inflated the price of goods and services (thus vanquishing war, disease, and a decade’s-worth of supply chain vulnerabilities in a single instant). But perhaps more critically, he has vowed to take on the gatekeepers who enable others to impede the freedoms of everyday Canadians – the politicians and law-enforcement personnel who stand idly by as groups of chaos actors occupy territory in the name of political protest. As he said in February, 2020, when protesters blocked railways in opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline: “These blockaders are taking away the freedom of other people to move their goods and themselves where they want to go and that is wrong and the government has laws and tools in place to combat it.”

    Now, I haven’t checked to see if Mr. Poilievre still stands by this position, but surely he would have the exact same view if another group of protesters impeded the free movement of their fellow Canadians and, say, blocked border crossings to act out some sort of political tantrum. Mr. Poilievre is nothing but decidedly non-partisan and fair on these matters.

    There is one group of gatekeepers that Mr. Poilievre will not take on, and that is those who uphold Canada’s system of supply management, which controls the supply of milk, eggs and poultry that is produced in this country. Though supply management means that Canadians pay more for these products, and though Mr. Poilievre surely understands what it’s like to put cheese back on the shelf when the price gets too high, he has a good reason for standing down to this important voting bloc: namely, that dismantling supply management would be hard, and as he has said, probably very expensive. Thus, it’s better that Canadians carry the cost of artificially high dairy in perpetuity, and not ask that our leaders take on too many stressful challenges.

    The thing I like about Pierre Poilievre is that he says the things I’m thinking after I’ve stayed up all night drinking Red Bulls and watching Related Videos on YouTube. He will stand up to the Bill Gateses and Klaus Schwabs of the world, and ban ministers in his freest government ever from attending any World Economic Forum events (though they are still permitted to serve as his campaign co-chair). Mr. Poilievre understands the plight of the working man because he is the working man, with calluses on the sides of his pinkies where he rests his phone while texting. And really, is that so different from the hands of the truckers, the oil-rig workers, the brick masons he claims to represent? Are his Italian loafers so different from their steel-toe boots? Does his brow not bead with sweat after a hard day’s work when maintenance hasn’t gotten around to fixing the A/C?

    Mr. Poilievre will take on the laptop class, the political lifers, the bankers, the guys behind the colossally bad Matrix 4, your mother-in-law, and whomever else you perceive as holding you back from experiencing greater joy or success in your life. Down with the will-say-anything lifelong politician; vote for Pierre Poilievre.

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    #2
    Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-conservative-leadership-pierre-poilievre-gatekeepers/

    opinion
    Pierre Poilievre is right: Fire the gatekeepers, starting with the lifelong politicians

    I’m with Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre: fire the gatekeepers. Banish them from Canada. As Mr. Poilievre says, it’s time to make this country the “freest on earth,” and the only way to do that is through an incoherent collection of restrictions on certain individuals, groups or institutions, such as banning the Bank of Canada from developing a digital currency. And by firing its governor. That’s the type of political meddling that only the freest countries in the world entertain, and Mr. Poilievre is the man to lead this wayward flock to graze on his field of dreams.

    The worst of the gatekeepers, as we all know, are the lifelong politicians: the men and women who have never stepped foot in the real world except to pose for cheesy photo-ops and maybe to find someone to clean their income properties. They are the ones who joined political parties before they could vote, who have been living off taxpayers since they were barely old enough to rent a car, and who earned a generous public pension at the ripe old age of 31, when many Canadians nowadays can barely afford to move out of their parents’ home.

    These gatekeepers like to pretend they don’t have extraordinary influence and control over the lives of Canadians, which is a good way to garner populist support and thus acquire greater influence and control over the lives of Canadians. Mr. Poilievre, who I’ll assume has toiled in Canada’s cruel and unforgiving mines for years (cryptocurrency mines count, yes?), is clearly the antithesis of the permanently on-the-public-teat type, because it’s possible he once raked leaves for a neighbour as a child and therefore earned a few private-sector dollars.

    Mr. Poilievre has said for months that he will remove the gatekeepers who have massively increased the price you pay at the gas pump (I guess that means he will lead a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin) and banish the gatekeepers who have inflated the price of goods and services (thus vanquishing war, disease, and a decade’s-worth of supply chain vulnerabilities in a single instant). But perhaps more critically, he has vowed to take on the gatekeepers who enable others to impede the freedoms of everyday Canadians – the politicians and law-enforcement personnel who stand idly by as groups of chaos actors occupy territory in the name of political protest. As he said in February, 2020, when protesters blocked railways in opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline: “These blockaders are taking away the freedom of other people to move their goods and themselves where they want to go and that is wrong and the government has laws and tools in place to combat it.”

    Now, I haven’t checked to see if Mr. Poilievre still stands by this position, but surely he would have the exact same view if another group of protesters impeded the free movement of their fellow Canadians and, say, blocked border crossings to act out some sort of political tantrum. Mr. Poilievre is nothing but decidedly non-partisan and fair on these matters.

    There is one group of gatekeepers that Mr. Poilievre will not take on, and that is those who uphold Canada’s system of supply management, which controls the supply of milk, eggs and poultry that is produced in this country. Though supply management means that Canadians pay more for these products, and though Mr. Poilievre surely understands what it’s like to put cheese back on the shelf when the price gets too high, he has a good reason for standing down to this important voting bloc: namely, that dismantling supply management would be hard, and as he has said, probably very expensive. Thus, it’s better that Canadians carry the cost of artificially high dairy in perpetuity, and not ask that our leaders take on too many stressful challenges.

    The thing I like about Pierre Poilievre is that he says the things I’m thinking after I’ve stayed up all night drinking Red Bulls and watching Related Videos on YouTube. He will stand up to the Bill Gateses and Klaus Schwabs of the world, and ban ministers in his freest government ever from attending any World Economic Forum events (though they are still permitted to serve as his campaign co-chair). Mr. Poilievre understands the plight of the working man because he is the working man, with calluses on the sides of his pinkies where he rests his phone while texting. And really, is that so different from the hands of the truckers, the oil-rig workers, the brick masons he claims to represent? Are his Italian loafers so different from their steel-toe boots? Does his brow not bead with sweat after a hard day’s work when maintenance hasn’t gotten around to fixing the A/C?

    Mr. Poilievre will take on the laptop class, the political lifers, the bankers, the guys behind the colossally bad Matrix 4, your mother-in-law, and whomever else you perceive as holding you back from experiencing greater joy or success in your life. Down with the will-say-anything lifelong politician; vote for Pierre Poilievre.

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    Chuck2 why is everyone in the establishment so afraid of Pierre? For every article written about the other 5 Conservative leadership hopefuls there must be 10 written about Pierre. What are they all so afraid of?

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      #3
      yes they are afraid thats why they are trying to say every rubbish they can think of , huge crowds everywhere PP goes , big protests everywhere our supreme leader JT goes

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        #4
        Pierre has a clue. For a lifelong politician, he at least seems to understand. Trudeau? Wow. He has no clue whatsoever. No comparison.

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          #5
          Trudeau is what we get when Ontario and Quebec vote for an immature rich kid with no real world experience.

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            #6
            Are you going to start a new copy and paste thread every time you find an article about pierre?

            Judging by the amount of press he is getting, this could get old in a hurry
            But what are you trying to prove with this?

            You did the same thing with global warming and unreliable energy, and Trump and covid and vaccines and ivermectin the list goes on and on and on. While it's good to see that you have moved on from defending the vaccines. You haven't started a new covid thread in a long time, I don't understand who you are trying to direct these threads at? No one seems to have any passionate opinions about PP. You're not getting much traction of getting anyone to defend him. Is this just all you have left after your covid bubble burst? And even you are probably smart enough to realize that if you were to start another global warming thread this spring with the unseasonably cold conditions, you won't get much support.
            You did start the one thread about agriculture a while back, regarding ethanol, do not have anything else along those lines that you could share with us and start a discussion?

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              #7
              Pierre has an Asian wife and mixed race family so the white supremacy card won’t work on him.

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                #8
                Originally posted by jazz View Post
                Pierre has an Asian wife and mixed race family so the white supremacy card won’t work on him.
                And why not?
                The convoy was organized by an indigenous lady and a Jewish man and the CBC and their faithful followers such as Chuck and tweety still claimed it was a racist white supremacist movement. And the government believed it and acted upon it. Smearing PP shouldn't be difficult at all after that example.

                Speaking of which. Apparently Tweety has a lot more self-respect than Chuck does. When the narrative he/she was promoting fell apart on both the convoy and covid, he or she had the wisdom to disappear. Poor Chuck just keeps digging the hole deeper, all alone.
                Last edited by AlbertaFarmer5; May 26, 2022, 16:38.

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                  #9
                  And he is oblivious to the fact

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                    #10
                    So nobody should criticize the probable next leader of the CPC or any politicians you may agree with?

                    Crypto Polly is a phony flake who seems to be able to con many of the cons with populist rhetoric and simplistic solutions some of which don't make any sense.

                    And many of the sheep seem to suck it up without hardly a raised eyebrow.

                    And as if Polly isn't part of the Ottawa elite who has been collecting a tax payers salary for many years! You believe that Polly is just an average guy with average problems? LOL

                    But consistency of principles and thought is not a strong suit for many of the conspiracy loons and wanna be republicans on the fringes of the CPC.

                    As bad as Trudeau is, Crypto Polly is not the solution.

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                      #11
                      "Mr. Poilievre has said for months that he will remove the gatekeepers who have massively increased the price you pay at the gas pump (I guess that means he will lead a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin) and banish the gatekeepers who have inflated the price of goods and services (thus vanquishing war, disease, and a decade’s-worth of supply chain vulnerabilities in a single instant). But perhaps more critically, he has vowed to take on the gatekeepers who enable others to impede the freedoms of everyday Canadians – the politicians and law-enforcement personnel who stand idly by as groups of chaos actors occupy territory in the name of political protest. As he said in February, 2020, when protesters blocked railways in opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline: “These blockaders are taking away the freedom of other people to move their goods and themselves where they want to go and that is wrong and the government has laws and tools in place to combat it.”

                      Now, I haven’t checked to see if Mr. Poilievre still stands by this position, but surely he would have the exact same view if another group of protesters impeded the free movement of their fellow Canadians and, say, blocked border crossings to act out some sort of political tantrum. Mr. Poilievre is nothing but decidedly non-partisan and fair on these matters."

                      So why did Crypto Polly seem to have such a change of heart in Ottawa and support the illegal blockade and the blocked border? Is it the new Con fredumb policy laws are for the other guys? LOL
                      Last edited by chuckChuck; May 27, 2022, 06:53.

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                        #12
                        This article points out why Tiff Macklem will be gone.

                        https://financialpost.com/opinion/matthew-lau-memo-to-the-bank-of-canada-your-target-is-inflation-not-carbon

                        The BOC had a woman groomed for the job but Mr Treudau needed someone the take a hardline ESG direction. Macklem was his man. Totally a political appointment to help with the all important climate change agenda.
                        He was Mark Carney's bum boy.
                        ESG investment style is going to take some serious group chanting to get any momentum back.
                        A lot of climate cult money has evaporated there recently.

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                          #13
                          Congratulations Chuck for not starting a new thread for your latest cut and paste liberal media attack on PP.
                          This is recycling at its best, saving the environment one thread at a time.

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                            #14
                            Remember all those banks and esg funds and universities and sovereign funds who divested from oil? Their cult supporters drove the price to the moon.

                            My kids college funds and my retirement thank you immensely chuck et al.

                            Billy Gates has big oil holdings. Maybe Trudeau foundation does as well.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
                              So nobody should criticize the probable next leader of the CPC or any politicians you may agree with?

                              Crypto Polly is a phony flake who seems to be able to con many of the cons with populist rhetoric and simplistic solutions some of which don't make any sense.

                              And many of the sheep seem to suck it up without hardly a raised eyebrow.

                              And as if Polly isn't part of the Ottawa elite who has been collecting a tax payers salary for many years! You believe that Polly is just an average guy with average problems? LOL

                              But consistency of principles and thought is not a strong suit for many of the conspiracy loons and wanna be republicans on the fringes of the CPC.

                              As bad as Trudeau is, Crypto Polly is not the solution.
                              be very, very scared ,

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