Being charitable… I’m not sure this is the best messaging he can go with. He doesn’t seem to realize it’s over. Most of us are finished with the US and we can’t trust them at this point. He needs to start standing up for Canada and presenting a message of strength, independence and unity… Not continuing to offer platitudes and extending olive branches. Frankly, it looks weak, and it doesn’t instill any trust that he will do what’s necessary when the time comes.
He finishes off with a show of strength that hits all the right notes, but when it comes after the weaselly opening it just seems like too little, too late.
This slimeball has no idea how the real world works. Why anyone would think he was a good idea is beyond me…
What a clown! I can stand behind every word you used to describe this joke of a candidate for prime minister.
I despise everyone that want to appease the US. Since they can’t respect their own signature there is no point in negotiating especially if it weaken our sovereignty and push us to be more dependent on our oppressor. Lets put the 30 % of our gdp in jeopardy and build better trade with Europe and developed Asia. Who knows, maybe the US will pay for some missions critical import anyway and doing so shorten the trade war. I am not pushing to do anything rash but expelling diplomats until the 51st state bullshit stop seems necessary before March 1st.
FWIW, this is the first I’ve heard of him actually sounding even remotely like a leader rather than a yappy anti-Trudeau dog.
Sounds like he has been trying really hard to pivot his message, knowing that his polling numbers are heading in the wrong direction for him. The main issue is that his past chummy American statements are going to catch up to him, and he has to either side with Maple MAGA or with Canada, he can’t have both anymore.
My crystal ball forsees him at the debate repeating one rehearsed line over and over.
He ended off decent in the speech, but both leaders here keep talking about how we Canadians fought hand in hand in <insert war>, took in Americans in 9/11 etc.
They don’t care. Trump and his minions don’t care. At this point, I feel it’s the U.S. vs the world and they’re willing to go it alone.
They seem to think they have the right to take over whatever nation they want, without recourse, and discuss the splitting up of a nation without the sovereign nation present at the table. Something similar happened in Europe in 1939. This is eerily reminiscent of that.
They do not control the world.
both leaders here keep talking about how we Canadians fought hand in hand in <insert war>, took in Americans in 9/11 etc.
I agree they are all saying this, but I sense a difference in intent between Poilievre and the rest.
Maybe it’s my bias, but I feel that Poilievre is saying these things with the intent to convince the Americans - i.e., it’s for the American audience. By contrast, Carney and others are saying these things more for the Canadian audience - to explain why it’s justified to be angry at the Americans and we need to grow up and kick them to the curb.
For Carney and others, it’s a rallying cry; for Poilievre it’s an attempt at appeasement.