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Stuff like this and the "base" he has created give off pretty harsh trump vibes. Here is a link confirming for those wanting one. Sorry I did not include it originally. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.712106
What the actual fuck? I didnt know he'd said that. Isnt this the quiet part out loud.
Conservatives do that quite regularly.
Problem is that people often don't listen.
Even worse many agree
Yeah. A lot of Canadians hold suuuper regressive views about indigenous people. Try driving through or stopping for gas in a reserve with friends or family sometime and see how the react.
Because way, waaaaaay more will react, and react poorly, than you're probably prepared for.
He's said a lot of awful things. He's hung out with fascists and Nazi's. He's literally the bottom of the barrel. During the pandemic he pretty much said that the cerb was bad and Conservatives would never do that as Conservatives don't help people.
LoL "hard work". He doesn't even know what "hard work" is, that little bitch.
For those who don't know, he's never had a full time job outside of politics, he's as far as someone can be from an everyday normal guy. Born in 1979, he's got a BA in international relations and got elected at the age of 25 after 9 years of involvement in politics in one way or another. He's been undefeated in his riding every since.
That means that at the age of 25, PP was making 141k/year and started receiving a parliamentary role bonus in 2006 when he became parliamentary secretary of the president of the Treasury board and has received one at all times ever since.
This man pretends to talk for blue collars and the poor, he's worth multiple millions, doesn't live in his own house that's 25 minutes away from the parliament because he's allowed to live in the official residence of the leader of the opposition... That's 15 minutes closer...
This guy has been living off Canadians' taxes for half of his life.
And the thing is, I know his wife. She's actually really nice. She's had a really tough life early on and nearly became homeless in high school. She had to work so hard to get through. She was lucky enough to get a higher education have the opportunity work at the Parliament.
I really don't understand how she and him got together. I really didn't expect her values to match with his. It's incomprehensible.
"Yesterday on a day when the House and all Canadians were celebrating a new beginning, I made remarks that were hurtful and wrong," Poilievre said.
Buddy, it was more than just that day... lol
You don't need a PhD in political science to see Poilievre has been riding the Trump wave north of the border for the last 5-6 years.
The opposite of wheeee.
'eeeeeeewwwwww'
Fuck that work ethic bullshit. Let's live like cats.
If the right does what it always does here and votes C no matter what, the Cons won't form another government for a generation. If they seriously elect a racist populist like this guy, from a party that voted to not admit climate change exists, Millennials and Gen Z will become ABC voters for life.
So if you need some kind of (very long term) silver lining, there's that.
The problem is they'll make housing worse, peoples rights worse, and 2SLGBTQ+ lives much worse, and cause even more climate crises than we have now. Not to mention absolutely gutting our healthcare.
But again, they'll only do it once.
Except we also see Gen Z becoming increasingly polarized around issues such as gender roles, education, opportunities for social and economic progression, and other issues that are right in the fascists' wheelhouse.
The Conservatives the lie about their platform and agenda forever, so long as they have these social coals that they can blow on and stoke in the background over and over.
We can't rely on people running away from the Conservatives over and over again. We need to give them something to run toward, and no major political party in this country is doing that.
He's been going hard on the idea that removing red tape for developers will solve the housing crisis, rather than developers turning the maximum profit they can because demand is so high. He thinks the market that's destroyed affordability will also solve it, if only the public has less say in what/where is allowed to be developed. NDP want to convert underutilized federal buildings in to social housing and focus on affordability rather than developer profits.
This man says hard work while looking like he wouldn’t last 3 days without all the technology that the natives used to survive without. Bruh, we know what hard work is & how to do it, we just don’t give much of a fuck about doing it on your behalf.
So long as you’re still calling them “aboriginals” instead of I dunno like “The First Canadians,” then you’re making it crystal clear that you don’t care about them & you’re just mad that they aren’t letting you use, abuse, or manipulate them.
Just to be clear it is "The First Canadians" now?
i've been raised as a Gen Z to learn "first nations", though aboriginal (from the root word aborigine) also means the exact same thing, so i personally don't comprehend how someone can find offense in using that word.
maybe they are used to seeing aboriginals to describe aussi natives? still, it essentially means "first of the region", or in other words, "first of the nation".
This quote is from 2008.. that's 15 years ago. Back then calling them aboriginals was a politically correct term. This "first nation"/"first Canadian" trend is incredibly recent and it still isn't widely accepted.
Serious question: what actually is the value of hard work?
@doleo @Ulrich_the_Old
It is a concept that supposedly is needed in order for us to succeed. As a concept, it is used to bury the fact that many of our “successful” citizens (read rich) actually inherited their monies or “knew someone”. It is also used to explain poverty…. That is, if you are not successful, it is your own fault because you did not work hard enough.
Basically victim blaming and on the flip side of the coin pretending that the presence of wealth proves that they deserve what they own.
A ruined body probably
It was common for european colonizers to say this about indigenous people, basically meaning that they don't participate in the world economy. Or, said another way, they're not being exploited for profits by said european colonizers, which is obviously bad.
June, 2008? Wtf man he’s had lots of time to grow up and change his views. Look at him. He’s a baby.
But anyway, I hope he doesn’t become PM regardless. He still seems like a shit.
he’s had lots of time to grow up and change his views.
Okay, this can easily be resolved by him expressing his changed views.
Expressing and demonstrating that his views have changed for the better.
It's also ridiculous that there is an idea among the white ruling class that Indigenous peoples merely need financial compensation for genocide. How do you compensate for that? They need decolonisation, namely ending of discrimination, recognition of their rights and sovereignty as Indigenous peoples, and work to repair the long-lasting damage that was done, such as the massive issues with mental health, addiction, crime and abuse within Indigenous communities that arose as a direct result of residential schools. Things that require deep rooted changes to society and will take generations, not just an apology and some hush money before never bringing it up again.
Here is the non-AMP version of the link from OP's submission:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/conservative-mp-apologizes-for-hurtful-comments-on-aboriginal-people-1.712106
Angry Millhouse.
If you've paid any attention to Canadian politics at all, it's pretty obvious.
Dang! He sounds like one of ours.