Don’t let Poilievre take us backward

Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre has spent his life exclusively in politics, entirely at the taxpayers’ expense, his function being a snarling, sarcastic heel biter for the Conservative Party.

Now he presents himself as a messiah to the multitudes, offering a miracle of five loaves and two fishes, no more mind you, and the “freedom” to starve if you can’t find your own resources.

He warns us that if we have a bank account, the Liberal government has us “under surveillance.”

The Liberals have enabled the multitudes to have sufficient loaves and fishes by reducing child and senior poverty, creating 3.5 million jobs in the last two years, cutting unemployment to a historic low of 5.2%, and achieving the highest growth rate and lowest deficit in the G7.

A miracle? No. Honest federal governance. Do we want Canada taken backwards by a century? No, we do not. We have a standard of living envied around the globe.

The Northern Republican power-seekers want to take it from us in the name of some perversion of “freedom” and “patriotism.”

Stand up for real Canadian values, not some aberration we were warned of when former prime minister Stephen Harper boasted “When I’m done with Canada you won’t recognize it.” Poilievre aspires to be the second coming in this destruction.

Inflation? Place the blame where it belongs. Entitled Canadians, who filled airports going on their entitled holidays during the pandemic, who feel entitled to bid hundreds of thousands over asking prices to buy houses, now whine that as a result of their demand, costs have risen.

Oil companies who did no exploration or refining during the pandemic, now tell us there is no supply, so costs must skyrocket.

This while many seniors sit, and often die, in sweltering or freezing rooms. Not what the “attack dog “wants us to realize.

Elaine Lawrence, Kelowna