It was, I recognized him and he was even more of a jerkass in person. Only reason I didn't mention him by name was because I'm not giving him a platform. He doesn't deserve one.
You’re right to avoid platforming him. Him and his ilk spread lies and hatred, twist the narrative, dish out the falsehoods, and have Americanized our politics. Likely to turn a profit.
Do you have any video or audio from the abuse and hatred you witnessed? We need to make that go viral. Show the Canadian people what not to vote for.
Thank you for going and thank you for the article.
Yeah, I looked for something on his YT, but cannot stand the blatant lies and worship. If you have a specific platform I could find it on, please let me know. Thanks
You won't get any video, because most of this seems to have been made up in the author's head. The criticisms are shallow and intended to demonize Conservative supporters. The "anger" seems to have been directed primarily at the Palestinian protestors -- who I assume were there to antagonize and their cause is a volatile issue that has created divisiveness and anger everywhere . . . not just at a Conservative rally. The author deliberately portrays a " rally" where slogans, "rah, rah" rhetoric and even signs that make fun of the other side are part of the culture. I can assure you the Conservatives do not have a lock on a-holes and ignoramuses as I have met plenty in the other parties. This article is nothing but a smear job, and I guess that was the point.
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, you’re right. Then tell me; why would I take time out of my day to go somewhere I didn’t have to be, just to make something up? Doesn’t add up. Use your head. Just because you don’t like what’s being said about your party doesn’t mean it’s some kind of hit job. Not everything’s a conspiracy. Sometimes the truth just hurts.
Here's the thing....from the onset of your "article", which is a long-winded editorial, you state you disagree with the people and ideologies you are covering. You can cover anything you want and you have the God given right to speak your mind freely and I respect that.....but to claim this is somehow an unbiased piece about the rally is an outright lie....and again....you do you, but let's stop pretending you were there to give the facts. It's your opinion on the Conservative movement in 2025 and a singular event that in no way captures the movement as a reaction to the 10 years of Liberal mismanagement in this country and the dire consequences it has produced.
There are so many terrible mischaracterizations in this piece that it's impossible to find a starting or ending point.
The economy, you're looking for a gender issue to harp on, safe injection sites, the protestors' angle is amazing in itself.... like you were looking for the Conservatives to be gracious to the protestors who were there to do what? Be respectful? No, they were there to agitate and their viewpoints, which they were free to express, were countered by the Conservative viewpoints, which again, were freely expressed. You somehow think they have a right not to hear the vitriol they are spewing.....it does not work that way Son.... not in real life. I could write a 2000-word response, but it would be a pointless editorial, like you have just tried to pass as reporting.
Conservatives are not misinformed any more or less than Liberals in Canada. They are people who have been brought to their limits by not only the blatant mismangement, but the disregard for their voices, brushed off as "fringe" or the "minority". Your take on the GenZ Conservative as a spout from Prageru or some other right-wing media outlet is also marginalizing what is a very well-informed demographic. I appreciate your take, it at the very least reinforces why this movement is the right one.
Best of luck, you're going to need it finding work.
Whoa there! This is an opinion piece and posted on his Substack. He is describing his experience. In fairness to the journalist, he was clear from the start that he was there to see what it was all about. It is not like half of Canada has not seen the videos and pictures circulating from this rally. It was disgusting and should not be condoned by any Canadian. You also have no idea if he is Liberal, there are more than 2 parties running. All of Canadians have lived through the past 8 years with the same government and we all don’t see things the way you do!!! We have not all been radicalized to the point of losing common decency and kindness. I think this is a great article, I see promise in his work and I have been in newspaper for 30+ years.
It is not that you did not witness the various things you claim, it is that you interpretations are totally off the beam. Most in of your comments are superficial generalizations or pointless, trivial criticisms. ( So what if Polievere has s a whole two cm. shorter than you. Why even mention it?
You misinterpret the carbon tax issue. Conservatives are right to point out that the tax is still on the books.
Why do you assume Pollievere does not have a concrete plan for dealing with the drug crisis? A political rally is for flagging important issues -- not for detailed explanations.
Your dismissal of the Conservative economic strategy to find a dollar in savings for every dollar spent is unwarranted. It is how you avoid the fiasco of doubling the national debt in ten years as has happened under Liberals. Surely there are limits to public spending -- or maybe you don't think so.
Suggesting that people fainting may have been staged is pretty low.
"no one around me seemed to notice or care about how shameless it was?" What was shameless? You seem to be sneering at normal human responses to people in distress.
This is a specious and sophistic claim: Pierre Poilievre’s base isn’t just misinformed—they’re actively toxic. You are bound to have spoilers in any large crowd. Poillivere's base involves ordinary, patriotic and caring Canadians -- much like people supporting other parties. You have taken a " heat of the moment" comment and used it to demonize about 30%+of the Canadian population.
Why you would take the time out of your day is easy ,You are a hardcore liberal intrigued and fearful by the support,the large numbers and excitement at Conservative rallies and you go to look for any opportunity to find some dirt on Pierre ,to trash Conservatives and portray them as rough ,racist ,uneducated etc to turn support from them .We’ve seen this playbook many times before and you and legacy media will manage to hoodwink a few of your faithful clan who are in fear of losing position ,power and “progressive “ privileges like yourself when Canadians vote for real change and a better life for all of us.It is a shame someone as young as you does not want that for yourself and your fellow Canadians.
The author does not dispute his liberal leaning, however to claim it is a smear campaign is quite the stretch.
I have read several posts from passive protesters, which is their right in Canada, and they have recounted the same experiences at the Poilievre rallies. These protestors do not solely go to conservative rallies, yet they are met with hatred, abuse, xenophobia primarily at the conservative rallies. Why do you believe that is the case?
You haven't got a hot clue what you are talking about so stop flapping your senseless lips.
I have been to several Poiliviere rallies. There is a great sense of PRIDE in being a Canadian amongst ALL of the attendees. I have never seen, met or talked to a single person at a rally that was pro anything other than pro Canada. I have never seen or met any of the assholes mentioned by the author of this 3rd rate article. The rallies were all positive rallies about Poiliviere's policies if he is elected and some of the challenges that would be roadkill left by the Liberals.
The last rally I was at in Winnipeg a few weeks ago saw a radical Liberal protestor hauled out by police. I have that recorded on my phone. And of course there were the usual regressive Liberal protestors outside the venue. How do I know they were Liberal? Well if it looks like a Liberal, talks nonsense like a Liberal and smells like a Liberal, it is a Liberal. The old farmer saying applies here. You can put lipstick and a pretty dress on a pig (Liberal) but you still have a pig (Liberal).
The article paints a negative picture of a Poilievre rally in Oshawa, describing hostile, racist behavior among attendees, which contrasts sharply with your experience of positive, pro-Canada, policy-focused rallies. Both accounts are subjective: the author’s anti-Poilievre bias and your support for Poilievre likely shape your respective views. No independent evidence confirms the article’s specific claims about racist remarks or the Trudeau cutout, nor your account of a Liberal protester’s removal in Winnipeg. The article’s credibility is weakened by its partisan tone, but tensions with counter-protesters are plausible based on other rally reports. Without video or third-party corroboration, the truth lies in a gray area. Share the Winnipeg video you mentioned.
I know. That was directed at the kind and colourful Glenn Dickson. No hate towards you. There’s enough Rebel propagandists in here doing that, while saying how radical the liberals are. 🤣
Unfortunately the Liberals are radical. The old Liberal ideal of live and let live is now gone. Now the Liberals want to control us, guide us in our every move and censor what we say, write and think. Pretty soon we will have Liberal censorship of what married couples can do in their bedrooms. That is not the Liberal way in a pure Liberal form.
Liberals are also wasting time and precious resources putting tampons in mens rooms, promoting 57 different flavours of gender, sex books in Grade schools, transvestite story time etc. for the benefit of a very teensie, tiny fraction of 1% of the population. Sending millions to foreign countries for gender studies etc. I remwmber the press asking Trudeau what he felt he accomplished at a G7 meeting. He said he got them to use "gender neutral language in the documents" Really? We paid millions of dollars to fly that asshole to Europe to promote gender neutral language and THAT WAS ALL HE ACCOMPLISHED! My god what a waste of time and money.
Meanwhile 10-15% of the population can't afford to feed their family, heat their home etc. and go to food banks. Then there are thousands of homeless and the abandoned veterans. Where on earth do Liberals get their priorities?
I can see how any voice of opposition would be expelled from a PP rally Glenn. Heck. His flock of sheep are all buying his BS so of course the rallies are peaceful. He handpicks the faithful for his cult. He won’t even talk to reporters!!! He is afraid that his shallow vapid nature would be on full show. Career politician who would say or do anything to get elected. I’d like to see him turfed out and unemployed Saints be praised!
The reporters have been bought and paid for by the Liberals, $650 million to be more precise, then CBC - BILLIONS. Look up some of the videos where reporters keep interupting him and will not even let him answer their question. And a Conservative behaing like this guy at a Liberal rally would have been arrested to. Let's be fair. Handpicked? Bull shit. Every Conservative member had the opportunity to go. We are not blind sheeple like the Liberal fans and we certainly were not hand picked. Grow up and get a life.
That sounds like a sexually repressed desire to do drag Glenn. Stop flapping those lipsticked lips of yours and go troll somebody weak minded like yourself.
I know my mind is NOT as weak as yours! IF you voted Liberal you have no rational thought, logic, integrity, honesty or morals. The Liberal party is missing all of those qualities since 2014 and thus their loyal fan base is also missing those same qualities!
The second hand borrowed MAGA ideology and strategy, the uncreative rhetoric, the lies and misinformation…all unwelcome and harmful US exports…like the firearms that cross our borders. Don’t need it. Don’t want it. Give me fiscal conservatism without the confederacy lunacy conspiracy theorists and racism and maybe I’d consider CPC as a viable alternative
You are believing the left wing fabrications. There are no lies, misinformation or conspiracy theories in the PP Conservative platform.
Yes there are illegal guns coming in from the USA. Unfortunately the illegal smuggled guns are much harder to find and seize than the firearms owned by hunters. So Trudeau Liberals took the easy expedient route to buy votes and went after hunting firearms of law abiding, licenced, vetted hunters. And that is why gun crime has dramatically increased.
FYI Glen. You simply cannot presume to know what I believe or whether I’m left, right or centrist. Just more polarizing Left versus Right, woke versus common sense BS IMO. Where does the party stand on the very thing scientists have been studying for nearly 65 years—Climate change??! Drill more oil? Burn more Carbon and natural gas? I really do feel for Albertans. They are like dinosaurs caught in a tar pit. Tragic that the private wealth that oil creates is more than offset by the very profound and expensive spectre of severe weather events. In a perfect world we could keep digging and drilling and bring private prosperity to investment (I am an investor in traditional fuels) but you either have to be completely unhinged by a death wish or greed has occluded your judgement to not make that a priority. Same goes for Carney. This has bought resource companies a tragic reprieve from the inevitable fact that they need to scale back ASAP. Wish it were otherwise but wishing and believing won’t save us from the inevitable fact that we are paving the way for enormous global catastrophes. Again the CPC has wrongly believed otherwise. They will trust the scientists and engineers who build their smart phones and comms but somehow these same professionals lack credibility in the climate sphere. Pity PP et al fed the denial narrative for so long because it made the party seem ridiculous to anybody with a smidgen of education (like factual, verifiable) unless you were blinded by greed and avarice. This uncritical embrace of a party with so many lapses in dealing with inconvenient facts is what enabled MAGA to melt down the US. I have no interest in repeating THAT failed social experiment in misguided authoritarian rule.
You, the climate cult, the WEF and the Liberals are so wrong on the climate hype. More information comes every week showing it is just an expensive boondoggle to force societal change so that the few wealthy elites can get a hell of a lot wealthier from forcing that change at our expense. Yah know, the Carneys, Trudeaus, Gore, Schwab, Obama etc. Scientists depend on gov't funding and so if they are going to research something and GET FUNDING then they have to research a topic the govt wants to fund. Believe me, my wife was a research scientist in several fields.
As an Agricultural Scientist, I can tell you that plants need around .02 % CO2 to grow at all (200 ppm) and the higher the CO2 level is, the better they they grow. We are currently at about .04% CO2. That is 400 parts per million. That is like the proverbial needle in the haystack. Warming trends or cooling trends depend on when you set the dates so the data is easy to manipulate. Most of Canada was once covered by the Laurentide Glacier which was 2-3 km thick and it melted 20,000 yrs ago. It wasn't carbon fuels that caused it to melt. Manitoba is still rising slightly (rebounding) from the compressive effects of that glacier.
Viming settlements have been recetly found that were buried in glaciers nearly a 1,000 yrs ago. Anyone with a functioning brain can xeduce if they had settlement that was in that location then it must have been warm enough to keep the glacier at bay and then at a later time it cooled considerably an the glacier formed. Again carbon fuels were not involved in these weather events.
There is also proof that thee have been times in the past when CO2 levels were high and the weather was cool and vice versa.
There are also areas of the southern Sahara where they have found the remains of 2 separate culturez 5,000 yrs apart who inhabited the same region when it was a lush grassland with bodies of water and all the wildlife that goes with grasslands and water in Africa. However this required a considerably different climate than we have today with higher rainfall amounts for one.
I do not believe for one minute that we are having more extreme weather events. What we are having is vastly superior communications and coverage of extremem weather events. We also have 150 yrs of vegetative build up in forests and grasslands as mankind has tried to out out every forest fire or grassland fire since we arrived. Jasper N.P. last year was a great example. Liberal government would not give them a permit for controlled burning which would have prevented that fire. It was almost like Minister Stephen Guilbeault was setting the stage for the fire. Then he prevented some fire fighters from other regions that wanted to come and help. We know the Indigenous people used to set fire to the Prairies in certain areas to manage the grasslands. Tornadoes have not increased in Western Canada but if we were warming significantly they certainly would increase.
Rainfall in Western Canada is down recently but not as low as it has been in many other years. We went through a wet cycle from 1993 to about 2016 and now it appears to be drier and more like the late 1970's and into the 1980's.
We as a society are absolutely foolish and reckless to be wasting our time, energy and resources trying to control the climate when we need those resorces to adapt to it instead.
From a Canadian perspective, we are carbon negative IF and it is a BIG IF, carbon had any impact on climate which it doesn't.
Why would Canada kill their economy and send thousands of jobs and untold billions of dollars to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq etc. when we are carbon negative and only produce 1.5% of the total CO2 in the world? There is nothing we can do that would have a meaningful impact on world wide carbon levels, NOTHING. The big emittersare China, India, Russia, USA, EU and BRAZIL. And yet you and the Liberals are ready to sacrifice our well being on the idealogical alter of carbon cult righteousness! Absolutely mind blowing stupidity!
Glenn. The gun program was a misguided and unmitigated disaster but that is so long in the past. I have been a gun owner/user and I’m not smarting over something that happened over a decade ago. I suggest getting over that. As for the misinformation I can’t let you off with that. Any fool could see that the platform and strategy were wholly unoriginal and merely parroted Bannon, Trump, MAGA et al. I have never voted Liberal till now because I am so absolutely sick of the US style of undermining truth with disinformation. Trump leverages FOX “news” and PPs far right base panders to the tripe produced by Rebel “Media”, True North etc. playing with that fire has literally trashed the worlds leading democracy and the global economy. You would have to be completely blind to think that the CPC isn’t fomenting similar mistrust. Get security clearance, stop pandering to fringe confederates and THEN you might have a chance with those of us who are fiscally conservative. But don’t play me or those like me for fools. Does Canada need political reform? Absolutely! But neither Preston Manning, Harper or Trudeau delivered. THIS is THE burning issue driving anger at government and, no doubt, after a PP majority there would be a trail of broken promises and missed opportunities, malfeasance and zero reform just like the others. He needs to get real honest with himself and Canadians and get out of the swampy fringe and speak to a more rational centre if he wants my vote.
The gun confiscatioon will BE NOW if Liberals are elected. You have been asleep if you think that is in the past. But that isn’t surprisiing if you are thinking the Conservative platform is based on msinformation. Misinformation is strictly Liberal territory.
The security clearance issue was an attempt by Trudeau to stop Poiliviere holding his feet to the fire in Question Period over the multiple international scandals. This has been shown so many times and debunked by former NDP leader Tom Mulcair. You dozed off again.
Change is needed and unfortunately it doesn’t happen rasily or fast. But your best chance is with Conservatives.
Excellent piece that can help others understand the smoke, mirrors, and the viciousness behind Poilievre’s campaign. His party, definitely, will not receive my vote.
The Liberals, their media minions, and anti-health choice zealots act exactly the SAME way. It seems the Trudeau's have a way with stirring up emotions.
I believe him 100%. The videos and pictures are everywhere online. The overwhelming response from this rally was exactly as he is describing. Shocking, radicalized and disturbing behaviour all instigated by the far right wing nut, Ezra Lavent of Rebel News that was hired by Poilievre. Not everyone has been deceived by the performative rhetoric. Sad that this has gone on so long. Canada has some massive cleaning up to do!!
Duhh! Justin bought the ENTIRE Canadian media in 2018 (TV stations, Internet form of them, newspapers, radio station, print media) for $600 million. The Liberals PM has subsidized every last one annually since that time. So, OF COURSE, you see nothing but negative press of anyone who opposes the Marxist takeover of this formerly civilized colony.
Did you attend a Conservative rally? No I didn't think so. This article is mindless, biased garbage. I have attended numerous Conservative rallies and have never seen anything except pro Canada and a love of Canada. NOTHING EXTREME!
There is no viciousness in Poilivier's campaign. He only exposes the damage, corruption, the lies etc. done by 10 yrs of Liberals. And the Liberals have left HUGE targets due to their LACK OF morals, integrity and honesty, that make it easy to target.
SNC LAVALIN, WE SCANDAL, Green Slush fund, ethics breaches by the dozens, firearms banning, increasing gun crime despite the gun ban, crime rates in general, health care, constant lies including in the HOC, constant attacks on Western Canada's economy, favouritism to Quebec and Ontario etc. etc...
Look if you spent 10 years in school and you FAILED every year, do you really think the public should expect you to score A+'s in the next 4 years? Well only the deaf, blind, gullible and naive voters would be expecting a turnaround from the lying, incompetent and corrupt Liberals.
It's obvious you either didn't read the whole article or dismiss the "flying monkey" tactic of encouraging or enabling followers to express viciousness towards others (i.e., shouting, using the "F**k" [insert name], etc.) If Poilievre wasn't OK with this viciousness, he would tell them to cut that stuff out like Sen. McCain did when his supporters started calling Obama a terrorist, etc..
and sometimes if you tell them to cut it out, it only inflames their hysteria more. This is likely why he has chosen to ignore that very small segment of the party.
A current CPC campaign add on TV has one character referring to the Liberals as "clowns". While that is not a vicious comment in itself, it doesn't show respect of a group of people who just has a different approach to leading the country. Decorum matters. Party leaders who do not show respect for people who belong to a different party sends a message to their followers that they do not need to show respect either.
Thank you for going to that rally and reporting what is was really like. I don't think i could have done the same. I would have been too mad. Even now I want to go stand with those Palestinian protesters and show them that they aren't alone, that their cause matters.
I think this idiot, as you call him, is NOT going to be PM. And after reading this piece and getting a sense of who PP really appeals to I am so glad he will never be near power in our country.
As for the comparison you make between the more civil, older supporters and the Gen Z supporters, it makes sense to me. The older supporters have seen the Progressive Conservative Party in power, and the CPC is the closest they can get to that federally. Maybe they hope, like so many Republican supporters in the US, that Poilievre won't be as bad as non-Conservatives make him out to be. (We see how that landed down south.) The Gen Z supporters have seen little else in their lifetimes. They likely see "progressive" people as fringe, so when someone like Poilievre demonstrates hate or disdain for the same things they do, they have a voice and feel more normalized. I'm not a sociologist; this is just my interpretation. Regardless, we need to infuse more "progressive" into Canada's federal conservative party. Remember those days fellow Canadians, when we didn't have to fear losing our national identity if we voted Progressive Conservative, Liberal or NDP?
Yeah, I'm no Conservative, but I do think the Conservative Party has moved more extreme right than it ever was before. Canada needs a new, more Center-right party to balance things out. Fiscal conservatives that aren't running campaigns on hate, aren't trying to become Maple MAGA, aren't trying to strip people of their rights, and defund programs that the public needs. Honestly, someone like Mark Carney could lead a party like that, because he's not particularity left leaning, not particularly liberal.
If the right like more like Mark, I wouldn't be so terrified of them getting into power and destroying our country the way that Donnie is doing down south. Where are the moderates?
Maybe the moderates get too apathetic. They may need to feel urgency before they engage. (Haven't they felt it yet?)
I've always seen Canada's relationship with the US as a "kid brother/sister and an at-times obnoxious older brother/sister" type of relationship. As the younger siblings, we sit back and watch the older brother do and say things, and then decide, "Wow... worth a try," or "Yikes, I probably wouldn't have done/said that." We have a real opportunity here to see the mess going on in the States and to learn from it. It would be asinine not to plan around it.
His followers are rabid. If Carney wins, I think it's going to get a little ugly. I don't think the rest of Canada will be as tolerant as they were during the convoy though. We're an angry bunch now with our sovereignty being threatened.
Every since PP supported the Convoy I don't know how many sane Canadians could ever vote for him. And this piece just supports who is base supporters really are.
The convoy protest would have been a short blip on history of several days at most if our P.M. had HAD THE GUTS, INTELLIGENCE AND GOOD JUDGEMENT to meet the leaders of the protest and discuss their issues. Instead JT hid like the little coward weenie he is causing everything related to the Ottawa convoy to get blown out of proportion.
Well actually the Conservatives have not moved as far right as the Liberals have moved further left. When you start sending MILLIONS of Canadian tax payers money to Muslime countries for gender equality and gender studies, put tampons in mens washrooms etc., start seizing legally owned hunting firearms that have been safely used for 100 yrs by generations of family members and on and on., then your Liberals are really moving left at high speed. And it scares the sh*t out of ordinary Canadians
Conservatives KNOW that if Carney gets elwcted it will be game over for Canada. He will sell us out and have us eating cricket burgers instead of hamburgers. He is a WEF extremist.
Do you realize that Harper and Poilievre are members of the WEF? Pictures and all. Poilievre pulled back before the election. Carney’s name and picture is not on the Canadian Membership List. He was invited to speak at a conference there and he admitted that.
Show us a completed and signed apication form please. There are some organizatiins that give out memberships based on your role or position in society and then send you invites to their meetings. You may not even know anything about the organization that you have been made a member of.
Since you made the original claim about Carney, how about you provide us with a completed and signed application form from Carney?
Glenn, I'm afraid you've fallen prey to the right wing propaganda machine. Polievre is a liar with a long track record of not supporting policies that actually help Canadians, and supporting policies that primarily benefit the ultra right and corporations. Don't trust me on this, it's all public record.
Mark Carney is very close to centrist. He doesn't really represent the left all that well, because he's not very strong on things like environmental protection. Most leftists prefer the NDP or Greens, but many vote Liberal, because of our ridiculous first past the post system. Really, about 2/3 of Canadians are left leaning, but because three parties split the vote on the left, the Cons are able to actually compete for control. If we moved to proportional representation, they would never win another election again.
Carney will win this election, because Canadians need a leader who is strong, economically savvy, and not afraid to stand up to Trump's rhetoric of Canada becoming "the 51st state." Do I think he'll be a perfectl PM, no, I don't put leaders on pedestals. Do I think he can get us through this crisis and build Canada as a global leader? Absolutely, I do.
Meanwhile, the Cons are fast becoming a party with authoritarian designs, mirroring the US in ways that should alarm all Canadians. The fact that they are platforming on a promise to use the Notwithstanding clause should terrify the shit out of every Canadian. The Cons have a plan to consolidate power in much the same way that the disastrous current US Administration has done and is doing. If anything, we should be making policy changes that limit the control of the PM. We do not need one individual with near total control running our government. That's authoritarianism, not democracy.
I challenge you to step outside of the right-wing echo chamber and listen to some different perspectives.
You are so wrong. You suggest I have fallen prey to the Conservative propaganda when I believe you have fallen prey to the Liberal propaganda! The Conservative party and PP do not have that 10 yr period of continual corruption, scandals, ethics breaches, lies and blocking investigations into their scandals. The Liberal party has lost their morals, honesty and integrity as no other Liberal or Conservative government has ever been found to be corrupt.
In the opinion of many Canadians, if you support a crook then you are no different than the crook.
Carney is on a short leash from China and the USA. He refuses to releases his finances because he knows he is in a conflict of interest position with Cdn interests. His perforance as Trudeau's Economic Advisor was DISMAL. Trump has endorsed Carney because he knows he can more easily control Carney than PP.
Carney may be book smart but he is onviously unable to put that knowledge into good practice. He is also a radical extremist who thinks on the WEF train of though such as we should be eating cricket burgers instead of beef. He is a dangerous man and if gets to PM Canada is only going to slide downhill faster and blind Liberals will wonder what happened.
I am no liberal. In fact, I've never voted for them in my life. I also remember the travesty that was Stephen Harper's leadership and see Polievre as the next step in their plan to steal from the middle and lower classes to feed the oligarchy. We are seeing this in real time in the US, and there is no way we want that to happen here in Canada.
Carney and the liberals may not be the best possible option, but they certainly aren't the worst.
Absolutely Susan - Harper created Poilievre - remember the anti- govt scientists who weren’t allowed to “publicise” or share their work and the anti media and Harper started the whole “prorogue parliament” nonsense that they - provincial and feds do now - that was a Harper era nonsense we inherited - he will control behind the scenes and yes his support for Orban sends a terrible message to our Gen Z” 😞
Hey I’m in the Peterborough area. I haven’t gotten up the nerve to check out the local con show, but I do know enough about the shadow side of evangelical “Christians” to be truly terrified of what will happen to Canada if the conservatives get in. This was really well written and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future.
My god Emily, Conservatives are NOT evangelical Christians. No doubt there are a few who are members but I would bet there are some in every party.
Conservatives have members of every racial and religious background attending rallies and on our memberships lists. Then there are plenty of agnostics and atheists which is the category I and many others fall into. I expect the Liberal, NDP, Greens and Bloc are not much different in terms of the diversity of membership
Thanks for taking time out of your life to witness for yourself what you saw at a PP rally and reporting back to us. I am not surprised but I am appalled that someone running for Prime Minister, the leader of our great nation, remains mute when violent threats remain unchecked. He will never be worthy of the job and his party should think harder and smarter about keeping him as opposition leader. Disgraceful behavior.
God your mind is pretty simple if you believe that dribnle you typed. Here is the PARTIAL Liberal report card of all of the "good" they have done which includes criminal actions and plenty of unprosecuted corruption because those "good" Liberals blocked investigations to hide their theft and criminal actions.
LIBERAL REPORT CARD:
- $60 Million ArriveScam
- Hard Drugs called Safe drugs supplied in vending machines
- $258 Million in projects to GC Strategies;
- Winnipeg Labs
- SNC Scandal
- Aga Khan trip Scandal
- $84k Jamaican Vacation
- $6k/night for a single room for the Queen's Funeral
- $1.3 Million on 3 'Affordability Retreats'
- China Election Interference
- Chinese Police Stations in Canada
- Green Slush Fund Scandal
- Funding Islamic groups who are protesting in support of Hamas
- $1 Billion paid out for Hotels for Immigrants
- $40 Million to fire staff
- A Billion Dollars to CBC to collapse their credibility
- $2 Billion to invest in companies that don't exist
- $500 Million to fund abortions in other countries
- WE Scandal
- Highest inflation in 30 years
- Highest interest rates in 30 years
- Unsustainable immigration
- 11 Million Canadians requiring Food Banks
- Tent Cities in every major city
- Housing and Rent prices skyrocketing
- Healthcare Collapsing
- Out of-control spending by the Governor General
- Overpayment of CERB payments to prisoners, people who don't qualify, people who don't live in Canada
- 10k Ventilators, purchased from a Liberal Friend, that never got used because they were never needed
- $300 Million for storage of Mobile Hospitals that were never used
- $400 Million for Quarantine Hospitals
- Illegally using the Emergencies Act against Canadians
- Firing Federal workers and not paying them El based on Vaccination Status
- $30 Billion in making batteries for cars, while EV Manufacturers are divesting from EV Technology
- $9 Million in Cricket factory for Human consumption
- Accusing India of killing citizens on Canadian Soil
- Soiling relations with China
- Telling Germany, Japan and Greece that we don't want their business on LNG
- Violent protesters allowed to escalate without recourse
- Violated Canadian Charter of Rights
- 2018 India Vacation Mr. Dressup
- Elbow gate in HoC
- 25% living in poverty
- Housing is unaffordable.
- Canadian forces made ineffective
- Rising crime rate
- Failed gun bans on lawful owner
- An opioid epidemic
- No progress on missing Aboriginal women
- A divided country
- Reduction of Canadian forestry management causing more forest fires
- 6 billion to the Philippines for gender equality and fight climate change
- 5 million ice rink on Parliament Hill
- 8.6 million reno on the Herington Lake cottage
- 2.5 million for the additional cottage at Herington lake for Sophie and kids
- Safe injection sites, not so safe around children
- Failed safe supply being sold for hard drugs
- Legalization of hard drugs
- Speaker Greg Fergus after partisan language appeared in an ad for an upcoming event in his riding
- Fergus was found to have violated the act
- Freeland by-election at by-election
- Anthony Rota is thrown under the bus for the HoC Hunka clap-in. PMO’s office knew who he was before.
- Mary Ng $17,000 ethical contract
- Mary Ng named as one of the 11 MP's who allegedly conspired with foreign actors
- Failed UN Security seat campaign of over 8.6 million
- 300 million on redesigning the Canadian passport (what was wrong with the old design, not WOKE enough?)
- 220k on in-flight catering Indo-Pacific trip, total for the trip over 2 million
- Justin Trudeau bought his buddy Tom a $9 million condo in NYC
- $28,000 to Randy Boissonnault’s former company
- Randy Boissonnault faking indigenous to get grants/money
- Randy Boissonnault steps away from HoC to be protected from his crimes
- 25% of Canadians are living below the poverty line
- Steven Guilbeault $30 Billion coverup
- MP Joly’s husband top recipient of future entrepreneurs program
- Immigration minister Marc Miller importing terrorists
- $523K Joly Rush furniture order spending spree.
-Min Catherine McKenna, Infrastructure "loses track" of 8,500 contracts and $92 BILLION dollars when the Auditor General came calling.
THIS IS NOT EVEN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE. SHARE SHARE AND SHARE SOME MORE!
Stop focusing on Trump and pay attention to what’s happening in OUR country! We’re being taxed to death by the very people who are suppose to work for Canada and our citizens!
No body has to try smear Carney and the liberals. All you need to do is be aware of the facts of the last 9 years . Do some research about the WEF, links to China and Carneys terrible banking practices that got England into trouble. The people in Germany are not his fans either. The Deutch bank? The lust goes on.
Seems to me Stephen Harper was pretty popular at WEF and PP is his devoted disciple. By focusing attention on the WEF people are distracted from more powerful people who are really pulling our strings.
Yes - both Harper and Poilievre have had much more involvement with the WEF than Carney ever did!! I laugh when I see the Canada Proud memes and Rebel pushing the same narrative about WEF. People have no idea how radicalized they have become to absolute BS. People that have been around for years are shaking their heads. Sad ☹️
The claim that Mark Carney and the Liberals are discredited by the “facts of the last 9 years,” WEF ties, China links, and Carney’s “terrible banking practices” is largely false or misleading. The Liberal record under Trudeau is debated, but Carney’s role was minimal until 2025. His WEF involvement is real but exaggerated as a conspiracy. Alleged China ties (e.g., JCCC meeting, Brookfield) are speculative, with no evidence of disloyalty, and Carney has publicly criticized China’s interference. Claims of “terrible banking practices” causing trouble in England are unsupported; Carney’s Bank of England tenure was generally praised, despite criticism from figures like Liz Truss, whose claims are not credible. No evidence shows German dislike or Deutsche Bank connections. The claim relies on vague assertions and unverified social media posts, lacking concrete evidence. Always verify such claims with primary sources, as they often amplify rhetoric over reality.
Great read. I suspect you'd likely find the same level of vitriol at a trump rally , just a slightly bigger crowd. Same fear based misinformation campaign...just a different country. This guy is just Maga north , a Trump fan who can't wait to throw open the doors to whatever trump plans for Canada.
Frankly I was surprised by the angry response I've received from at least one Poilievre supporter.It was like zero to 60 in 2 sentences.Anger bordering on rage , insults , nonsense about the Chinese,personal attacks on my intelligence..it was astonishing.It was like many online chats I've had with Trump's maga faithful.The verbal abuse and the disinformation was something I'd expect at a Trump rally.Finally just blocked him.Not surprised though, Poilievre's campaign is little more than a watered down Trump campaign.
Well said. It would be nice to have more mainstream media broadcasting footage of the more toxic of the Neanderthals spewing their venom. Let’s get more people expressing revulsion at these awful people.
You will be waiting a while for that. Post owns all the major dailies in Canada and they are American very right leaning. The T Star and the Globe don’t want to take the chance to lose readership that may be right. CBC, Independents or online is the only chance.
Thanks. Great report. I thought of doing the same when he came to Sudbury, just to see. I am very happy I didn't. He needs to be destroyed politically. They are cancer on the country.
For whatever reason progressives are being told we need to understand and cater to the frustrations of Gen Z Conservatives. How does one do that when they meet anyone not like them with mockery and derision?
Trying to understand is good but catering, or caving, is not. Psychologists tell us that conservative-minded people tend to be more gullible. The whole right-wing program has evolved to take advantage of that. I'm sure the main reason that Propaganda Pete was giving coffee and donuts to truck protesters was because he saw people who were passionate, credulous and easily manipulated. Younger people have a right to be dissatisfied with the situation but they are being very cynically manipulated. As if bringing back plastic straws is going to change my vote!
Very well written article and so disturbing. Sadly I am not surprised. The whole feel of the Conservatives under PP is one of anger and meanness and cruelty. I have been genuinely gobsmacked by the sentiment I hear from the right wing supporters of this man. Deeply unsettling. I hope you are posting this on right wing platforms as well. Perhaps with enough reads, a few may actually take the time to actually investigate the history of these candidates and what they actually stand for.
Reading this reminded me of some people in my life who have become Maple Maga…they agree with the Heritage Foundation and other regressive ideologies. They actually enjoy the hatred, the violence. It is truly a cult.
Great article. We need some video of how these assholes treat people, especially protestors. His base is so anti-Canadian it’s unreal.
Also, sounds like you met Pleb (the bald dude screaming there’s thousands of people). He’s such a scumbag.
It was, I recognized him and he was even more of a jerkass in person. Only reason I didn't mention him by name was because I'm not giving him a platform. He doesn't deserve one.
You’re right to avoid platforming him. Him and his ilk spread lies and hatred, twist the narrative, dish out the falsehoods, and have Americanized our politics. Likely to turn a profit.
Do you have any video or audio from the abuse and hatred you witnessed? We need to make that go viral. Show the Canadian people what not to vote for.
Thank you for going and thank you for the article.
Just watch Pleb's own livestream with the context of what I said and it will speak for itself. Sadly my phone had died so I couldn't record.
Yeah, I looked for something on his YT, but cannot stand the blatant lies and worship. If you have a specific platform I could find it on, please let me know. Thanks
You won't get any video, because most of this seems to have been made up in the author's head. The criticisms are shallow and intended to demonize Conservative supporters. The "anger" seems to have been directed primarily at the Palestinian protestors -- who I assume were there to antagonize and their cause is a volatile issue that has created divisiveness and anger everywhere . . . not just at a Conservative rally. The author deliberately portrays a " rally" where slogans, "rah, rah" rhetoric and even signs that make fun of the other side are part of the culture. I can assure you the Conservatives do not have a lock on a-holes and ignoramuses as I have met plenty in the other parties. This article is nothing but a smear job, and I guess that was the point.
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, you’re right. Then tell me; why would I take time out of my day to go somewhere I didn’t have to be, just to make something up? Doesn’t add up. Use your head. Just because you don’t like what’s being said about your party doesn’t mean it’s some kind of hit job. Not everything’s a conspiracy. Sometimes the truth just hurts.
Dear Will,
Here's the thing....from the onset of your "article", which is a long-winded editorial, you state you disagree with the people and ideologies you are covering. You can cover anything you want and you have the God given right to speak your mind freely and I respect that.....but to claim this is somehow an unbiased piece about the rally is an outright lie....and again....you do you, but let's stop pretending you were there to give the facts. It's your opinion on the Conservative movement in 2025 and a singular event that in no way captures the movement as a reaction to the 10 years of Liberal mismanagement in this country and the dire consequences it has produced.
There are so many terrible mischaracterizations in this piece that it's impossible to find a starting or ending point.
The economy, you're looking for a gender issue to harp on, safe injection sites, the protestors' angle is amazing in itself.... like you were looking for the Conservatives to be gracious to the protestors who were there to do what? Be respectful? No, they were there to agitate and their viewpoints, which they were free to express, were countered by the Conservative viewpoints, which again, were freely expressed. You somehow think they have a right not to hear the vitriol they are spewing.....it does not work that way Son.... not in real life. I could write a 2000-word response, but it would be a pointless editorial, like you have just tried to pass as reporting.
Conservatives are not misinformed any more or less than Liberals in Canada. They are people who have been brought to their limits by not only the blatant mismangement, but the disregard for their voices, brushed off as "fringe" or the "minority". Your take on the GenZ Conservative as a spout from Prageru or some other right-wing media outlet is also marginalizing what is a very well-informed demographic. I appreciate your take, it at the very least reinforces why this movement is the right one.
Best of luck, you're going to need it finding work.
Whoa there! This is an opinion piece and posted on his Substack. He is describing his experience. In fairness to the journalist, he was clear from the start that he was there to see what it was all about. It is not like half of Canada has not seen the videos and pictures circulating from this rally. It was disgusting and should not be condoned by any Canadian. You also have no idea if he is Liberal, there are more than 2 parties running. All of Canadians have lived through the past 8 years with the same government and we all don’t see things the way you do!!! We have not all been radicalized to the point of losing common decency and kindness. I think this is a great article, I see promise in his work and I have been in newspaper for 30+ years.
It is not that you did not witness the various things you claim, it is that you interpretations are totally off the beam. Most in of your comments are superficial generalizations or pointless, trivial criticisms. ( So what if Polievere has s a whole two cm. shorter than you. Why even mention it?
You misinterpret the carbon tax issue. Conservatives are right to point out that the tax is still on the books.
Why do you assume Pollievere does not have a concrete plan for dealing with the drug crisis? A political rally is for flagging important issues -- not for detailed explanations.
Your dismissal of the Conservative economic strategy to find a dollar in savings for every dollar spent is unwarranted. It is how you avoid the fiasco of doubling the national debt in ten years as has happened under Liberals. Surely there are limits to public spending -- or maybe you don't think so.
Suggesting that people fainting may have been staged is pretty low.
"no one around me seemed to notice or care about how shameless it was?" What was shameless? You seem to be sneering at normal human responses to people in distress.
This is a specious and sophistic claim: Pierre Poilievre’s base isn’t just misinformed—they’re actively toxic. You are bound to have spoilers in any large crowd. Poillivere's base involves ordinary, patriotic and caring Canadians -- much like people supporting other parties. You have taken a " heat of the moment" comment and used it to demonize about 30%+of the Canadian population.
Why you would take the time out of your day is easy ,You are a hardcore liberal intrigued and fearful by the support,the large numbers and excitement at Conservative rallies and you go to look for any opportunity to find some dirt on Pierre ,to trash Conservatives and portray them as rough ,racist ,uneducated etc to turn support from them .We’ve seen this playbook many times before and you and legacy media will manage to hoodwink a few of your faithful clan who are in fear of losing position ,power and “progressive “ privileges like yourself when Canadians vote for real change and a better life for all of us.It is a shame someone as young as you does not want that for yourself and your fellow Canadians.
The author does not dispute his liberal leaning, however to claim it is a smear campaign is quite the stretch.
I have read several posts from passive protesters, which is their right in Canada, and they have recounted the same experiences at the Poilievre rallies. These protestors do not solely go to conservative rallies, yet they are met with hatred, abuse, xenophobia primarily at the conservative rallies. Why do you believe that is the case?
Mary, I believe Will's report. You protest too much.
He was spot on.
You haven't got a hot clue what you are talking about so stop flapping your senseless lips.
I have been to several Poiliviere rallies. There is a great sense of PRIDE in being a Canadian amongst ALL of the attendees. I have never seen, met or talked to a single person at a rally that was pro anything other than pro Canada. I have never seen or met any of the assholes mentioned by the author of this 3rd rate article. The rallies were all positive rallies about Poiliviere's policies if he is elected and some of the challenges that would be roadkill left by the Liberals.
The last rally I was at in Winnipeg a few weeks ago saw a radical Liberal protestor hauled out by police. I have that recorded on my phone. And of course there were the usual regressive Liberal protestors outside the venue. How do I know they were Liberal? Well if it looks like a Liberal, talks nonsense like a Liberal and smells like a Liberal, it is a Liberal. The old farmer saying applies here. You can put lipstick and a pretty dress on a pig (Liberal) but you still have a pig (Liberal).
The article paints a negative picture of a Poilievre rally in Oshawa, describing hostile, racist behavior among attendees, which contrasts sharply with your experience of positive, pro-Canada, policy-focused rallies. Both accounts are subjective: the author’s anti-Poilievre bias and your support for Poilievre likely shape your respective views. No independent evidence confirms the article’s specific claims about racist remarks or the Trudeau cutout, nor your account of a Liberal protester’s removal in Winnipeg. The article’s credibility is weakened by its partisan tone, but tensions with counter-protesters are plausible based on other rally reports. Without video or third-party corroboration, the truth lies in a gray area. Share the Winnipeg video you mentioned.
The racist remarks? Yeah, you do have to take me at my word. However, I showed photos of the cutout lol
I know. That was directed at the kind and colourful Glenn Dickson. No hate towards you. There’s enough Rebel propagandists in here doing that, while saying how radical the liberals are. 🤣
Unfortunately the Liberals are radical. The old Liberal ideal of live and let live is now gone. Now the Liberals want to control us, guide us in our every move and censor what we say, write and think. Pretty soon we will have Liberal censorship of what married couples can do in their bedrooms. That is not the Liberal way in a pure Liberal form.
Liberals are also wasting time and precious resources putting tampons in mens rooms, promoting 57 different flavours of gender, sex books in Grade schools, transvestite story time etc. for the benefit of a very teensie, tiny fraction of 1% of the population. Sending millions to foreign countries for gender studies etc. I remwmber the press asking Trudeau what he felt he accomplished at a G7 meeting. He said he got them to use "gender neutral language in the documents" Really? We paid millions of dollars to fly that asshole to Europe to promote gender neutral language and THAT WAS ALL HE ACCOMPLISHED! My god what a waste of time and money.
Meanwhile 10-15% of the population can't afford to feed their family, heat their home etc. and go to food banks. Then there are thousands of homeless and the abandoned veterans. Where on earth do Liberals get their priorities?
I can see how any voice of opposition would be expelled from a PP rally Glenn. Heck. His flock of sheep are all buying his BS so of course the rallies are peaceful. He handpicks the faithful for his cult. He won’t even talk to reporters!!! He is afraid that his shallow vapid nature would be on full show. Career politician who would say or do anything to get elected. I’d like to see him turfed out and unemployed Saints be praised!
The reporters have been bought and paid for by the Liberals, $650 million to be more precise, then CBC - BILLIONS. Look up some of the videos where reporters keep interupting him and will not even let him answer their question. And a Conservative behaing like this guy at a Liberal rally would have been arrested to. Let's be fair. Handpicked? Bull shit. Every Conservative member had the opportunity to go. We are not blind sheeple like the Liberal fans and we certainly were not hand picked. Grow up and get a life.
That sounds like a sexually repressed desire to do drag Glenn. Stop flapping those lipsticked lips of yours and go troll somebody weak minded like yourself.
I know my mind is NOT as weak as yours! IF you voted Liberal you have no rational thought, logic, integrity, honesty or morals. The Liberal party is missing all of those qualities since 2014 and thus their loyal fan base is also missing those same qualities!
Glenn the Tory Russian Troll Bot(on this thread) would have us believe otherwise.
Wouldn’t
Be surprised if they were
Spirited across the border along with an illegal firearms cache
What do you mean by "Spirited across the border along with an illegal firearms cache"
The second hand borrowed MAGA ideology and strategy, the uncreative rhetoric, the lies and misinformation…all unwelcome and harmful US exports…like the firearms that cross our borders. Don’t need it. Don’t want it. Give me fiscal conservatism without the confederacy lunacy conspiracy theorists and racism and maybe I’d consider CPC as a viable alternative
You are believing the left wing fabrications. There are no lies, misinformation or conspiracy theories in the PP Conservative platform.
Yes there are illegal guns coming in from the USA. Unfortunately the illegal smuggled guns are much harder to find and seize than the firearms owned by hunters. So Trudeau Liberals took the easy expedient route to buy votes and went after hunting firearms of law abiding, licenced, vetted hunters. And that is why gun crime has dramatically increased.
FYI Glen. You simply cannot presume to know what I believe or whether I’m left, right or centrist. Just more polarizing Left versus Right, woke versus common sense BS IMO. Where does the party stand on the very thing scientists have been studying for nearly 65 years—Climate change??! Drill more oil? Burn more Carbon and natural gas? I really do feel for Albertans. They are like dinosaurs caught in a tar pit. Tragic that the private wealth that oil creates is more than offset by the very profound and expensive spectre of severe weather events. In a perfect world we could keep digging and drilling and bring private prosperity to investment (I am an investor in traditional fuels) but you either have to be completely unhinged by a death wish or greed has occluded your judgement to not make that a priority. Same goes for Carney. This has bought resource companies a tragic reprieve from the inevitable fact that they need to scale back ASAP. Wish it were otherwise but wishing and believing won’t save us from the inevitable fact that we are paving the way for enormous global catastrophes. Again the CPC has wrongly believed otherwise. They will trust the scientists and engineers who build their smart phones and comms but somehow these same professionals lack credibility in the climate sphere. Pity PP et al fed the denial narrative for so long because it made the party seem ridiculous to anybody with a smidgen of education (like factual, verifiable) unless you were blinded by greed and avarice. This uncritical embrace of a party with so many lapses in dealing with inconvenient facts is what enabled MAGA to melt down the US. I have no interest in repeating THAT failed social experiment in misguided authoritarian rule.
You, the climate cult, the WEF and the Liberals are so wrong on the climate hype. More information comes every week showing it is just an expensive boondoggle to force societal change so that the few wealthy elites can get a hell of a lot wealthier from forcing that change at our expense. Yah know, the Carneys, Trudeaus, Gore, Schwab, Obama etc. Scientists depend on gov't funding and so if they are going to research something and GET FUNDING then they have to research a topic the govt wants to fund. Believe me, my wife was a research scientist in several fields.
As an Agricultural Scientist, I can tell you that plants need around .02 % CO2 to grow at all (200 ppm) and the higher the CO2 level is, the better they they grow. We are currently at about .04% CO2. That is 400 parts per million. That is like the proverbial needle in the haystack. Warming trends or cooling trends depend on when you set the dates so the data is easy to manipulate. Most of Canada was once covered by the Laurentide Glacier which was 2-3 km thick and it melted 20,000 yrs ago. It wasn't carbon fuels that caused it to melt. Manitoba is still rising slightly (rebounding) from the compressive effects of that glacier.
Viming settlements have been recetly found that were buried in glaciers nearly a 1,000 yrs ago. Anyone with a functioning brain can xeduce if they had settlement that was in that location then it must have been warm enough to keep the glacier at bay and then at a later time it cooled considerably an the glacier formed. Again carbon fuels were not involved in these weather events.
There is also proof that thee have been times in the past when CO2 levels were high and the weather was cool and vice versa.
There are also areas of the southern Sahara where they have found the remains of 2 separate culturez 5,000 yrs apart who inhabited the same region when it was a lush grassland with bodies of water and all the wildlife that goes with grasslands and water in Africa. However this required a considerably different climate than we have today with higher rainfall amounts for one.
I do not believe for one minute that we are having more extreme weather events. What we are having is vastly superior communications and coverage of extremem weather events. We also have 150 yrs of vegetative build up in forests and grasslands as mankind has tried to out out every forest fire or grassland fire since we arrived. Jasper N.P. last year was a great example. Liberal government would not give them a permit for controlled burning which would have prevented that fire. It was almost like Minister Stephen Guilbeault was setting the stage for the fire. Then he prevented some fire fighters from other regions that wanted to come and help. We know the Indigenous people used to set fire to the Prairies in certain areas to manage the grasslands. Tornadoes have not increased in Western Canada but if we were warming significantly they certainly would increase.
Rainfall in Western Canada is down recently but not as low as it has been in many other years. We went through a wet cycle from 1993 to about 2016 and now it appears to be drier and more like the late 1970's and into the 1980's.
We as a society are absolutely foolish and reckless to be wasting our time, energy and resources trying to control the climate when we need those resorces to adapt to it instead.
From a Canadian perspective, we are carbon negative IF and it is a BIG IF, carbon had any impact on climate which it doesn't.
Why would Canada kill their economy and send thousands of jobs and untold billions of dollars to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq etc. when we are carbon negative and only produce 1.5% of the total CO2 in the world? There is nothing we can do that would have a meaningful impact on world wide carbon levels, NOTHING. The big emittersare China, India, Russia, USA, EU and BRAZIL. And yet you and the Liberals are ready to sacrifice our well being on the idealogical alter of carbon cult righteousness! Absolutely mind blowing stupidity!
Glenn. The gun program was a misguided and unmitigated disaster but that is so long in the past. I have been a gun owner/user and I’m not smarting over something that happened over a decade ago. I suggest getting over that. As for the misinformation I can’t let you off with that. Any fool could see that the platform and strategy were wholly unoriginal and merely parroted Bannon, Trump, MAGA et al. I have never voted Liberal till now because I am so absolutely sick of the US style of undermining truth with disinformation. Trump leverages FOX “news” and PPs far right base panders to the tripe produced by Rebel “Media”, True North etc. playing with that fire has literally trashed the worlds leading democracy and the global economy. You would have to be completely blind to think that the CPC isn’t fomenting similar mistrust. Get security clearance, stop pandering to fringe confederates and THEN you might have a chance with those of us who are fiscally conservative. But don’t play me or those like me for fools. Does Canada need political reform? Absolutely! But neither Preston Manning, Harper or Trudeau delivered. THIS is THE burning issue driving anger at government and, no doubt, after a PP majority there would be a trail of broken promises and missed opportunities, malfeasance and zero reform just like the others. He needs to get real honest with himself and Canadians and get out of the swampy fringe and speak to a more rational centre if he wants my vote.
The gun confiscatioon will BE NOW if Liberals are elected. You have been asleep if you think that is in the past. But that isn’t surprisiing if you are thinking the Conservative platform is based on msinformation. Misinformation is strictly Liberal territory.
The security clearance issue was an attempt by Trudeau to stop Poiliviere holding his feet to the fire in Question Period over the multiple international scandals. This has been shown so many times and debunked by former NDP leader Tom Mulcair. You dozed off again.
Change is needed and unfortunately it doesn’t happen rasily or fast. But your best chance is with Conservatives.
Excellent piece that can help others understand the smoke, mirrors, and the viciousness behind Poilievre’s campaign. His party, definitely, will not receive my vote.
what a load of one sided bull shit
In what way is it bullshit?
Biased reporting filled with bullshit
Can you be more specific? What is untrue about what he reported?
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMBgSnmbX/
lol. Then leave already.
Is that your best argument? A meme?
The Liberals, their media minions, and anti-health choice zealots act exactly the SAME way. It seems the Trudeau's have a way with stirring up emotions.
Lies just like Carney .
I believe him 100%. The videos and pictures are everywhere online. The overwhelming response from this rally was exactly as he is describing. Shocking, radicalized and disturbing behaviour all instigated by the far right wing nut, Ezra Lavent of Rebel News that was hired by Poilievre. Not everyone has been deceived by the performative rhetoric. Sad that this has gone on so long. Canada has some massive cleaning up to do!!
Duhh! Justin bought the ENTIRE Canadian media in 2018 (TV stations, Internet form of them, newspapers, radio station, print media) for $600 million. The Liberals PM has subsidized every last one annually since that time. So, OF COURSE, you see nothing but negative press of anyone who opposes the Marxist takeover of this formerly civilized colony.
If you believe it, that is proof you have poor vision and hearing and a weak mind.
Did you attend a Conservative rally? No I didn't think so. This article is mindless, biased garbage. I have attended numerous Conservative rallies and have never seen anything except pro Canada and a love of Canada. NOTHING EXTREME!
There is no viciousness in Poilivier's campaign. He only exposes the damage, corruption, the lies etc. done by 10 yrs of Liberals. And the Liberals have left HUGE targets due to their LACK OF morals, integrity and honesty, that make it easy to target.
SNC LAVALIN, WE SCANDAL, Green Slush fund, ethics breaches by the dozens, firearms banning, increasing gun crime despite the gun ban, crime rates in general, health care, constant lies including in the HOC, constant attacks on Western Canada's economy, favouritism to Quebec and Ontario etc. etc...
Look if you spent 10 years in school and you FAILED every year, do you really think the public should expect you to score A+'s in the next 4 years? Well only the deaf, blind, gullible and naive voters would be expecting a turnaround from the lying, incompetent and corrupt Liberals.
It's obvious you either didn't read the whole article or dismiss the "flying monkey" tactic of encouraging or enabling followers to express viciousness towards others (i.e., shouting, using the "F**k" [insert name], etc.) If Poilievre wasn't OK with this viciousness, he would tell them to cut that stuff out like Sen. McCain did when his supporters started calling Obama a terrorist, etc..
and sometimes if you tell them to cut it out, it only inflames their hysteria more. This is likely why he has chosen to ignore that very small segment of the party.
That’s no reason to *not* tell them to cut it out. A real leader would condemn that behaviour regardless of how inflamed they get.
Addendum:
A current CPC campaign add on TV has one character referring to the Liberals as "clowns". While that is not a vicious comment in itself, it doesn't show respect of a group of people who just has a different approach to leading the country. Decorum matters. Party leaders who do not show respect for people who belong to a different party sends a message to their followers that they do not need to show respect either.
Canada. Don’t catch our disease. This sounds like a trump rally. Be very careful.
Total bullshit!
Grow up. There is no connection what so ever.
Thank you for going to that rally and reporting what is was really like. I don't think i could have done the same. I would have been too mad. Even now I want to go stand with those Palestinian protesters and show them that they aren't alone, that their cause matters.
We can't let this idiot become Prime Minister.
I think this idiot, as you call him, is NOT going to be PM. And after reading this piece and getting a sense of who PP really appeals to I am so glad he will never be near power in our country.
You would have been welcomed. You might not have liked everything he said but there would have been lots of ex Liberals for you to talk to
You are so ridiculous.Do you honestly not grasp they hate you,hate Canada and our way of life.
Nice summary of what Mark Carney and the WEF believe. If Carney gets into power your way of life will go down the toilet fast as your taxes go up.
As for the comparison you make between the more civil, older supporters and the Gen Z supporters, it makes sense to me. The older supporters have seen the Progressive Conservative Party in power, and the CPC is the closest they can get to that federally. Maybe they hope, like so many Republican supporters in the US, that Poilievre won't be as bad as non-Conservatives make him out to be. (We see how that landed down south.) The Gen Z supporters have seen little else in their lifetimes. They likely see "progressive" people as fringe, so when someone like Poilievre demonstrates hate or disdain for the same things they do, they have a voice and feel more normalized. I'm not a sociologist; this is just my interpretation. Regardless, we need to infuse more "progressive" into Canada's federal conservative party. Remember those days fellow Canadians, when we didn't have to fear losing our national identity if we voted Progressive Conservative, Liberal or NDP?
Yeah, I'm no Conservative, but I do think the Conservative Party has moved more extreme right than it ever was before. Canada needs a new, more Center-right party to balance things out. Fiscal conservatives that aren't running campaigns on hate, aren't trying to become Maple MAGA, aren't trying to strip people of their rights, and defund programs that the public needs. Honestly, someone like Mark Carney could lead a party like that, because he's not particularity left leaning, not particularly liberal.
If the right like more like Mark, I wouldn't be so terrified of them getting into power and destroying our country the way that Donnie is doing down south. Where are the moderates?
Maybe the moderates get too apathetic. They may need to feel urgency before they engage. (Haven't they felt it yet?)
I've always seen Canada's relationship with the US as a "kid brother/sister and an at-times obnoxious older brother/sister" type of relationship. As the younger siblings, we sit back and watch the older brother do and say things, and then decide, "Wow... worth a try," or "Yikes, I probably wouldn't have done/said that." We have a real opportunity here to see the mess going on in the States and to learn from it. It would be asinine not to plan around it.
I guess we can only hope that Pierre fails hard enough to make the Cons rethink the trajectory of their party, and move more to the center.
You are right that as Canadians we need to learn this hard lesson from our neighbors and fight tooth and nail to avoid the same fate.
His followers are rabid. If Carney wins, I think it's going to get a little ugly. I don't think the rest of Canada will be as tolerant as they were during the convoy though. We're an angry bunch now with our sovereignty being threatened.
Every since PP supported the Convoy I don't know how many sane Canadians could ever vote for him. And this piece just supports who is base supporters really are.
The convoy protest would have been a short blip on history of several days at most if our P.M. had HAD THE GUTS, INTELLIGENCE AND GOOD JUDGEMENT to meet the leaders of the protest and discuss their issues. Instead JT hid like the little coward weenie he is causing everything related to the Ottawa convoy to get blown out of proportion.
Well actually the Conservatives have not moved as far right as the Liberals have moved further left. When you start sending MILLIONS of Canadian tax payers money to Muslime countries for gender equality and gender studies, put tampons in mens washrooms etc., start seizing legally owned hunting firearms that have been safely used for 100 yrs by generations of family members and on and on., then your Liberals are really moving left at high speed. And it scares the sh*t out of ordinary Canadians
Conservatives KNOW that if Carney gets elwcted it will be game over for Canada. He will sell us out and have us eating cricket burgers instead of hamburgers. He is a WEF extremist.
Do you realize that Harper and Poilievre are members of the WEF? Pictures and all. Poilievre pulled back before the election. Carney’s name and picture is not on the Canadian Membership List. He was invited to speak at a conference there and he admitted that.
Show us a completed and signed apication form please. There are some organizatiins that give out memberships based on your role or position in society and then send you invites to their meetings. You may not even know anything about the organization that you have been made a member of.
Since you made the original claim about Carney, how about you provide us with a completed and signed application form from Carney?
Glenn, I'm afraid you've fallen prey to the right wing propaganda machine. Polievre is a liar with a long track record of not supporting policies that actually help Canadians, and supporting policies that primarily benefit the ultra right and corporations. Don't trust me on this, it's all public record.
Mark Carney is very close to centrist. He doesn't really represent the left all that well, because he's not very strong on things like environmental protection. Most leftists prefer the NDP or Greens, but many vote Liberal, because of our ridiculous first past the post system. Really, about 2/3 of Canadians are left leaning, but because three parties split the vote on the left, the Cons are able to actually compete for control. If we moved to proportional representation, they would never win another election again.
Carney will win this election, because Canadians need a leader who is strong, economically savvy, and not afraid to stand up to Trump's rhetoric of Canada becoming "the 51st state." Do I think he'll be a perfectl PM, no, I don't put leaders on pedestals. Do I think he can get us through this crisis and build Canada as a global leader? Absolutely, I do.
Meanwhile, the Cons are fast becoming a party with authoritarian designs, mirroring the US in ways that should alarm all Canadians. The fact that they are platforming on a promise to use the Notwithstanding clause should terrify the shit out of every Canadian. The Cons have a plan to consolidate power in much the same way that the disastrous current US Administration has done and is doing. If anything, we should be making policy changes that limit the control of the PM. We do not need one individual with near total control running our government. That's authoritarianism, not democracy.
I challenge you to step outside of the right-wing echo chamber and listen to some different perspectives.
You are so wrong. You suggest I have fallen prey to the Conservative propaganda when I believe you have fallen prey to the Liberal propaganda! The Conservative party and PP do not have that 10 yr period of continual corruption, scandals, ethics breaches, lies and blocking investigations into their scandals. The Liberal party has lost their morals, honesty and integrity as no other Liberal or Conservative government has ever been found to be corrupt.
In the opinion of many Canadians, if you support a crook then you are no different than the crook.
Carney is on a short leash from China and the USA. He refuses to releases his finances because he knows he is in a conflict of interest position with Cdn interests. His perforance as Trudeau's Economic Advisor was DISMAL. Trump has endorsed Carney because he knows he can more easily control Carney than PP.
Carney may be book smart but he is onviously unable to put that knowledge into good practice. He is also a radical extremist who thinks on the WEF train of though such as we should be eating cricket burgers instead of beef. He is a dangerous man and if gets to PM Canada is only going to slide downhill faster and blind Liberals will wonder what happened.
I am no liberal. In fact, I've never voted for them in my life. I also remember the travesty that was Stephen Harper's leadership and see Polievre as the next step in their plan to steal from the middle and lower classes to feed the oligarchy. We are seeing this in real time in the US, and there is no way we want that to happen here in Canada.
Carney and the liberals may not be the best possible option, but they certainly aren't the worst.
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Good analysis.
Thanks for your comment. Although I'm not certain Harper is aligned with progressive conservatism.
The Harper days were the days of $150/bbl oil and the petro-dollar (and still had three recessions)
You got that right. Good to remember Harper's anti-democratic leanings. Thanks for the reminder.
You just reminded me of something I wanna write about
What is it.
Absolutely Susan - Harper created Poilievre - remember the anti- govt scientists who weren’t allowed to “publicise” or share their work and the anti media and Harper started the whole “prorogue parliament” nonsense that they - provincial and feds do now - that was a Harper era nonsense we inherited - he will control behind the scenes and yes his support for Orban sends a terrible message to our Gen Z” 😞
Please don't leave Modi and Bolisario off your list
Hey I’m in the Peterborough area. I haven’t gotten up the nerve to check out the local con show, but I do know enough about the shadow side of evangelical “Christians” to be truly terrified of what will happen to Canada if the conservatives get in. This was really well written and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future.
My god Emily, Conservatives are NOT evangelical Christians. No doubt there are a few who are members but I would bet there are some in every party.
Conservatives have members of every racial and religious background attending rallies and on our memberships lists. Then there are plenty of agnostics and atheists which is the category I and many others fall into. I expect the Liberal, NDP, Greens and Bloc are not much different in terms of the diversity of membership
Thanks for taking time out of your life to witness for yourself what you saw at a PP rally and reporting back to us. I am not surprised but I am appalled that someone running for Prime Minister, the leader of our great nation, remains mute when violent threats remain unchecked. He will never be worthy of the job and his party should think harder and smarter about keeping him as opposition leader. Disgraceful behavior.
Thinking that Will's reporting is accurate and unbiased would be like a Christian believing the Devil's sales pitch on what hell was like.
Are you telling me the people at that rally supporting Poilièvre are unbiased?
We are not with PP because we stand for good and for everything he is not. 🇨🇦
Blah, blah
God your mind is pretty simple if you believe that dribnle you typed. Here is the PARTIAL Liberal report card of all of the "good" they have done which includes criminal actions and plenty of unprosecuted corruption because those "good" Liberals blocked investigations to hide their theft and criminal actions.
LIBERAL REPORT CARD:
- $60 Million ArriveScam
- Hard Drugs called Safe drugs supplied in vending machines
- $258 Million in projects to GC Strategies;
- Winnipeg Labs
- SNC Scandal
- Aga Khan trip Scandal
- $84k Jamaican Vacation
- $6k/night for a single room for the Queen's Funeral
- $1.3 Million on 3 'Affordability Retreats'
- China Election Interference
- Chinese Police Stations in Canada
- Green Slush Fund Scandal
- Funding Islamic groups who are protesting in support of Hamas
- $1 Billion paid out for Hotels for Immigrants
- $40 Million to fire staff
- A Billion Dollars to CBC to collapse their credibility
- Blocking Veterans Affairs Committee investigation
- $29 Billion in cost overruns on TMX
- Expanding MAiD into those with Mental Illness
- $2 Billion to invest in companies that don't exist
- $500 Million to fund abortions in other countries
- WE Scandal
- Highest inflation in 30 years
- Highest interest rates in 30 years
- Unsustainable immigration
- 11 Million Canadians requiring Food Banks
- Tent Cities in every major city
- Housing and Rent prices skyrocketing
- Healthcare Collapsing
- Out of-control spending by the Governor General
- Overpayment of CERB payments to prisoners, people who don't qualify, people who don't live in Canada
- 10k Ventilators, purchased from a Liberal Friend, that never got used because they were never needed
- $300 Million for storage of Mobile Hospitals that were never used
- $400 Million for Quarantine Hospitals
- Illegally using the Emergencies Act against Canadians
- Firing Federal workers and not paying them El based on Vaccination Status
- $30 Billion in making batteries for cars, while EV Manufacturers are divesting from EV Technology
- $9 Million in Cricket factory for Human consumption
- Accusing India of killing citizens on Canadian Soil
- Soiling relations with China
- Telling Germany, Japan and Greece that we don't want their business on LNG
- Violent protesters allowed to escalate without recourse
- Violated Canadian Charter of Rights
- 2018 India Vacation Mr. Dressup
- Elbow gate in HoC
- 25% living in poverty
- Housing is unaffordable.
- Canadian forces made ineffective
- Rising crime rate
- Failed gun bans on lawful owner
- An opioid epidemic
- No progress on missing Aboriginal women
- A divided country
- Reduction of Canadian forestry management causing more forest fires
- 6 billion to the Philippines for gender equality and fight climate change
- 5 million ice rink on Parliament Hill
- 8.6 million reno on the Herington Lake cottage
- 2.5 million for the additional cottage at Herington lake for Sophie and kids
- Safe injection sites, not so safe around children
- Failed safe supply being sold for hard drugs
- Legalization of hard drugs
- Speaker Greg Fergus after partisan language appeared in an ad for an upcoming event in his riding
- Fergus was found to have violated the act
- Freeland by-election at by-election
- Anthony Rota is thrown under the bus for the HoC Hunka clap-in. PMO’s office knew who he was before.
- Mary Ng $17,000 ethical contract
- Mary Ng named as one of the 11 MP's who allegedly conspired with foreign actors
- Failed UN Security seat campaign of over 8.6 million
- 300 million on redesigning the Canadian passport (what was wrong with the old design, not WOKE enough?)
- 220k on in-flight catering Indo-Pacific trip, total for the trip over 2 million
- Justin Trudeau bought his buddy Tom a $9 million condo in NYC
- $28,000 to Randy Boissonnault’s former company
- Randy Boissonnault faking indigenous to get grants/money
- Randy Boissonnault steps away from HoC to be protected from his crimes
- 25% of Canadians are living below the poverty line
- Steven Guilbeault $30 Billion coverup
- MP Joly’s husband top recipient of future entrepreneurs program
- Immigration minister Marc Miller importing terrorists
- $523K Joly Rush furniture order spending spree.
-Min Catherine McKenna, Infrastructure "loses track" of 8,500 contracts and $92 BILLION dollars when the Auditor General came calling.
THIS IS NOT EVEN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE. SHARE SHARE AND SHARE SOME MORE!
Stop focusing on Trump and pay attention to what’s happening in OUR country! We’re being taxed to death by the very people who are suppose to work for Canada and our citizens!
I can't find any stats to prove any of this lol
Convoy party
Poilievre and his clan are working hard to undermine and smear Leader Carney but Poilievre would be a disaster
No body has to try smear Carney and the liberals. All you need to do is be aware of the facts of the last 9 years . Do some research about the WEF, links to China and Carneys terrible banking practices that got England into trouble. The people in Germany are not his fans either. The Deutch bank? The lust goes on.
Seems to me Stephen Harper was pretty popular at WEF and PP is his devoted disciple. By focusing attention on the WEF people are distracted from more powerful people who are really pulling our strings.
Yes - both Harper and Poilievre have had much more involvement with the WEF than Carney ever did!! I laugh when I see the Canada Proud memes and Rebel pushing the same narrative about WEF. People have no idea how radicalized they have become to absolute BS. People that have been around for years are shaking their heads. Sad ☹️
The claim that Mark Carney and the Liberals are discredited by the “facts of the last 9 years,” WEF ties, China links, and Carney’s “terrible banking practices” is largely false or misleading. The Liberal record under Trudeau is debated, but Carney’s role was minimal until 2025. His WEF involvement is real but exaggerated as a conspiracy. Alleged China ties (e.g., JCCC meeting, Brookfield) are speculative, with no evidence of disloyalty, and Carney has publicly criticized China’s interference. Claims of “terrible banking practices” causing trouble in England are unsupported; Carney’s Bank of England tenure was generally praised, despite criticism from figures like Liz Truss, whose claims are not credible. No evidence shows German dislike or Deutsche Bank connections. The claim relies on vague assertions and unverified social media posts, lacking concrete evidence. Always verify such claims with primary sources, as they often amplify rhetoric over reality.
Great read. I suspect you'd likely find the same level of vitriol at a trump rally , just a slightly bigger crowd. Same fear based misinformation campaign...just a different country. This guy is just Maga north , a Trump fan who can't wait to throw open the doors to whatever trump plans for Canada.
Frankly I was surprised by the angry response I've received from at least one Poilievre supporter.It was like zero to 60 in 2 sentences.Anger bordering on rage , insults , nonsense about the Chinese,personal attacks on my intelligence..it was astonishing.It was like many online chats I've had with Trump's maga faithful.The verbal abuse and the disinformation was something I'd expect at a Trump rally.Finally just blocked him.Not surprised though, Poilievre's campaign is little more than a watered down Trump campaign.
Yes, I’ve found the same. Seriously off-putting.
Well said. It would be nice to have more mainstream media broadcasting footage of the more toxic of the Neanderthals spewing their venom. Let’s get more people expressing revulsion at these awful people.
There is no venom spewing at the multiple rallies I have to
You will be waiting a while for that. Post owns all the major dailies in Canada and they are American very right leaning. The T Star and the Globe don’t want to take the chance to lose readership that may be right. CBC, Independents or online is the only chance.
Thanks. Great report. I thought of doing the same when he came to Sudbury, just to see. I am very happy I didn't. He needs to be destroyed politically. They are cancer on the country.
For whatever reason progressives are being told we need to understand and cater to the frustrations of Gen Z Conservatives. How does one do that when they meet anyone not like them with mockery and derision?
Trying to understand is good but catering, or caving, is not. Psychologists tell us that conservative-minded people tend to be more gullible. The whole right-wing program has evolved to take advantage of that. I'm sure the main reason that Propaganda Pete was giving coffee and donuts to truck protesters was because he saw people who were passionate, credulous and easily manipulated. Younger people have a right to be dissatisfied with the situation but they are being very cynically manipulated. As if bringing back plastic straws is going to change my vote!
Very well written article and so disturbing. Sadly I am not surprised. The whole feel of the Conservatives under PP is one of anger and meanness and cruelty. I have been genuinely gobsmacked by the sentiment I hear from the right wing supporters of this man. Deeply unsettling. I hope you are posting this on right wing platforms as well. Perhaps with enough reads, a few may actually take the time to actually investigate the history of these candidates and what they actually stand for.
Reading this reminded me of some people in my life who have become Maple Maga…they agree with the Heritage Foundation and other regressive ideologies. They actually enjoy the hatred, the violence. It is truly a cult.
Exactly! And the victimhood, they love that. Fills them with righteous anger.