.deverynross: Poilievre stoops to scare tactics, exploitation – Winnipeg Free Press via WinnipegNews
The video begins with Poilievre sitting on a log in front of several makeshift tents somewhere on Vancouver’s shoreline. With ominous music playing, he asks, “Do you ever feel like everything’s broken in Canada?”
He says we need to “bolster our borders to keep drugs out of the country,” “bring in tougher laws” and “stop using tax dollars to fund dangerous drugs under the so-called and ironically-named idea of safe supply.” The first two are already happening; the third one isn’t.columnist Chris Selley described Poilievre’s comments as “an incredibly disappointing and potentially dangerous take.”columnist Gary Mason wrote: “Mr. Poilievre doesn’t know what he’s talking about. … He couldn’t be more wrong.
First, there is Poilievre’s ham-handed attempt to blame “woke Liberal and NDP governments” for Canada’s addictions crisis. In that regard, his selection of a “tent city” in Vancouver as his backdrop – as opposed to similar scenes in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto and even Winnipeg – was no accident.
That misdirected money might have saved more lives, but Poilievre would have embarrassed his conservative cousins by saying so.
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