Poilievre stance echoes U.S. right

DEAR EDITOR:

The expert crypto currency economist, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, has the perfect prescription for debt and inflation.: Keep ’em poor from the cradle to the grave and they won’t be, as he famously said “chasing too few goods with too much money.”

This, advocating the road to recession, from someone who has been on the government dole his entire life. Fascinating.

No universal healthcare, no child benefit, no dental program or daycare assistance, no COVID-19 benefits, no CPP adjustment – except of course, after the Harper government had taken a $13-billion surplus to a $56-billion deficit, even before the 2008 recession, and needing a cash cow. So he hiked the CPP, in order to milk it before the 2015 election.

But no government debt. Oh, wait. The Conservative decade cost millions in selfpromoting advertising , a job creation plan and action plan that didn’t exist, while instituting temporary foreign workers instead.

Curse these Liberals. Fewer deaths per capita from a once-in-a-century pandemic; millions of Canadian children lifted out of poverty; an economy that has performed better in terms of inflation, credit rating and job recovery than any other G7 country.

We can’t have that. It doesn’t fit the playbook. The “You won’t recognize Canada when I’m done with it,” as per former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Therefore, Canadian terms such as public healthcare must be substituted by state health monopoly. “Investing tax dollars” becomes “spending tax payers’ money,” and “budget surplus” described as “the amount Canadians were overtaxed.”

The Conservatives, singing from the U.S. Republican song book, assume we are all too stupid to defend our Canadian values.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Canadians, daily, throughout the pandemic, the Conservatives derisively mocked him as “coming out of his cottage.”

Contrast that with Poilievre’s “five questions only” from media, mimicking Harper.

What you hear today is Poilievre determined to finish recreating the the Republican-style agenda, with his rallying cry.