Pierre Poilievre needs to cool down his angry mob before someone gets hurt — or worse. The Conservative leadership candidate has worked the Trump playbook to perfection, pandering to the “freedom convoy” and emboldening radicals. Opinion by BobHepburn
Barring a miracle, Pierre Poilievre will easily win the federal Conservative leadership race when the party announces the voting results on Sept. 10.
But Poilievre has gone too far. It’s time he started to cool down his rhetoric and chill out the more radical segments of his base before someone — a politician, a police officer, a journalist, an ordinary citizen — gets seriously hurt, or worse.Chrystia Freeland was verbally attacked by a large, aggressive man
While Poilievre might insist his hands are clean in all these incidents, the reality is that he has pandered to the so-called “freedom convoy” supporters by marching with them, praising them in the media and sympathizing with their cause. True, we are living in troublesome times. Most of us are worried about inflation, housing prices, climate change, the war in Ukraine, COVID and more. A Pollara Strategic Insights poll released this week indicatedand 79 per cent about gas prices.
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