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Furious Poilievre criticizes Trump tariffs for uniting Canadians

www.thebeaverton.com Furious Poilievre criticizes Trump tariffs for uniting Canadians

OTTAWA - Following a tumultuous weekend in which Donald Trump threatened Canada with steep tariffs on all goods, only to back down, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre angrily criticized the US president for bringing Canadians together right before his planned election campaign.

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Has pp even said anything about it?

Still not sure what Pierre thinks makes him qualified to be PM except “Not Trudeau”.
Canada, given the political climate - is being “not Trudeau” enough to be our PM? Heck, I’m “not Trudeau” either and I’m sure I’d be better than Pierre.
Personally I’m hoping that when Trudeau is out and presumably Carney is in, the NDP pullls the rug completely out from under the cons and says they’ll support the new liberal leadership.
You’ll hear the cons bawling about it not being fair from coast to coast and that’s enough to be worthwhile right there.
Jagmeet’s office isn’t too far, wonder if it’s possible for average Joe Canadian me to get a few min of his time.
Met him once and he was very personable.

Good lord I forgot what the Beaverton was for a second and went in there not even doubting the fucking headline. Will I ever question a ridiculous sounding headline again?
- My brother in Christ, have you read the NYT recently?
  It's pumping out what I dearly hope is satire every day

Polievre and Ford can eat a bag of dick, they've been jerking trump for years, I hope he pisses in their face before they all get it by a train.
- I think Ford actually did a good job on this one. He's Trumpian in terms of his appeal and I think did a good job of rallying Canadians of various stripes and working WITH other premiers.
  Daniel Smith was the opposite. She was a Trump apologist, and was divisive instead of being a team player.
  Don't get me wrong - I think Ford is a complete tool 98% of the time, but I think he did a good job this once.
  
  Ford folded: after the tariff decision was paused (not cancelled, paused) dutifully restocked shelves and the overpaid StarLink deal is back on.
  His "Canada is not For Sale" schtick is just that: a schtick. Mark my words, if Trump wanted to build housing on greenbelt land, Ford would Get It (Doug Ford) Done! He (Ford) is the most for-sale politician in the country, and that's saying something when you're competing with Danielle Smith.
  Susan Holt in NB did a good job. American goods are still off the shelves.
  
  I feel the same. Still won't vote for him, but it's nice to see some competence coming out of him for a change.
  
  It actually makes me really happy that I can be on board with how Ford has responded to Trump's objectively-bad-for-Canadians ideas of tariffs and annexation.
  He may not be a good public servant, but goddammit, he's a_Canadian._ And that's more than we can say about some of our other "leaders".
  
  Something about a broken clock
  But yeah, Ford did good here.
- He literally had a speech were he stated the opposite of what you just said. I get it, we are supposed to hate him but straight up lying just makes his critics look bad. Can we as Liberals or nonconservatives not rely on lies? There are actual things to criticise him about.
  
  Have you seen the video where he is super super happy that Trump won? He's trying to play the good protective daddy now, but not even a month ago he was praising pedo-donnie, even if the tarifs where already mentioned by pedo. Look it up, he's always been a trumpist. Now this lying opportunistic crackhead is using this to be reelected. And you're falling for it.

At press time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to aid the flagging Poilievre campaign by doing something deeply unpopular, by week’s end at the latest.
This line got a hearty chuckle out of me.

Well I guess he finally said something about them

The clown was a little late to get into the fray lest he piss off his lordship Drump.

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