Dear Editor:
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is way too much like Donald Trump and is as much a danger to Canada as is Trump.
Like Trump, he can hardly open his mouth without lying. Take, for instance, Poilievre’s attempt to blame Justin Trudeau for the terrible car crash in January of this year on the 401 near Oshawa that resulted in the death of two grandparents visiting from India and their infant grandchild.
Or his unequivocal support for our first Prime Minister, Conservative John A. MacDonald, notwithstanding MacDonald being an architect of the residential school program and having a history of mistreating immigrant Chinese workers while they worked on the trans Canada railway. Or that Canada is broken.
Like Trump, Poilievre shows little respect for the media and rather than answer tough questions asked by the media, frequently attacks them instead. Like Trump, who encouraged the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capital Building, Poilievre supported the ridiculous anti-vaccine, anti democratic lawlessness of the occupation in Ottawa.
Like Trump, Poilievre relies way too much on the private sector in a market economy and tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the rich as the solution to every problem.
Poilievre has adopted many of the measures employed by Trump that saw him regrettably elected again. But Poilievre now wants us to somehow believe that he is the best man to fight Trump and his lunacy, including Trump’s horribly flawed and unjustified tariffs. Are you kidding me?
Poilievre threatens women’s rights, senior benefits, progress towards truth and reconciliation, health care, dental care, Pharmacare, LGBTQ rights, measures to curb climate change, protection of the environment, affordable housing, moderate gun control, and a stronger economy for everyone.
I won’t be supporting him.
Dan Kennaley,
Rockwood