A new study by the Angus Reid Institute has found that net favourability of Pierre Poilievre has reached its lowest point in over a year, at -16%. Just 36% of Canadians have a positive opinion of the Conservative Party of Canada leader.A previous study by Léger also found that, while the Conservatives are leading in the polls, just 26% of Canadians believe Pierre Poilievre is the best choice for prime minister.The fact remains that Pierre Poilievre is just not that likeable. He rubs most Canadians the wrong way and a large majority don’t want to see him become prime minister.As a result, support for the Conservatives will decrease as the election approaches, and as more light is shed on right-wing foreign interference scandals.
Meanwhile, Poilievre apparently thinks leadership means repeatedly failing to lead:...Conservatives appear to be trying everything this fall to turn their poll lead into eventual election victory, with the exception of one force in politics — likeability.Nothing in Pierre Poilievre’s repertoire in the Commons the past two weeks has been aimed at making people like him, beyond those who already do. He insults, he taunts, he name-calls, he sneers — all the things that parents tell their children not to do if they want to make and keep friends.It may be making his base happy, but it is doing nothing to present a positive picture of what he would be like in power....Poilievre seems pretty certain that the next election will give him a majority, and not require that he work with any other parties in the House. He’s burning his bridges with the Bloc and the NDP, if any such bridges ever existed.... About a month or so ago, I started to notice increasing mention of Poilievre’s lack of likeability in the political commentary, even among those who are not fans of the Trudeau Liberals. ...I’ve heard this privately from some Conservatives too, who roll their eyes at what they see as unnecessary vindictiveness from a party that continues to bounce along at the top of the polls. Is this sore-winner syndrome? And what will that look like if they really do end up winners after the next election? More enemies’ lists? More paranoia about the media and the bureaucracy?...Poilievre didn’t have a good week when Parliament resumed this month, failing to win in a Manitoba byelection and falling short in a bid to rally opposition leaders to bring down the government. He tried to pull that off with taunts and name-calling. Amazing that didn’t work.Perhaps Poilievre is operating on the principle that nice guys finish last.
But he doesn't let failure stop him, does he...After today Pierre Poilievre will have lost in excess of 135 non confidence votes against the Liberal government. pic.twitter.com/iQbCP8nvtX
— Roddy 🇨🇦 (@RodKahx) September 25, 2024
When you've lost Charlie Angus...This is beyond pathetic.
— Gator⚡Gum (@gator_gum) September 26, 2024
I can't imagine being a conservative and supporting this.
You had your grandstanding moment, fine... Now this is petulant and embarrassing. https://t.co/BdBUBM5vAL
Today I gave a speech calling out the cynicism and fundamental unfitness for public leadership of Pierre Poilievre. He called a non-confidence motion to force an election this morning and then never even showed up.
— Charlie Angus (@CharlieAngusNDP) September 26, 2024
It speaks volumes. https://t.co/nahmFujzEq
And here are two more relevant comments:The Tories neither understand nor cherish our Parliamentary system. You don't bring down a ministry by going boo we lack "confidence". You do it by defeating a money bill or other key element of their program. And if you can't, they have the confidence of the House. https://t.co/sh7BMw5PI3
— John Robson (@thejohnrobson) September 26, 2024
CONS hate and fear our differences.
— oneplusone🇨🇦 (@oneplusone10) September 23, 2024
LIBS celebrate them. 🇨🇦#NeverPoilievre pic.twitter.com/ayGh8pFZGi
"If you don't believe that you can work with others and make a positive difference, you're in the wrong line of work." (PMJT with Colbert) https://t.co/sPPLmPP4Ji
— Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴 (@macca_jan) September 25, 2024
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Doesn't "sore winner syndrome" first require a winner? Let's not put the cart before the horse.
"Whatever happens in the USA will happen in Canada five years later."
The CPC with its roots in the evangelical Bible Bill Aberhart's Social Credit party of 1930's Alberta has taken the above statement to heart. Witness GWB clone Stephen Harper who as PM led Canada into a recession in the first half of of 2015 while the World Economy boomed. Not to mention the Duffy scandal along with the Barbaric Practices/Rat on your Muslim Neighbour Act and hotline to stir up racial hostilities. Now they have chosen a mini Trump to be their saviour with the idea that while Big Daddy will punish them because he loves them, he will punish the rest of us even more because we aren't true believers.
My theory is that PP keeps repeatedly bringing in these non confidence motions which continue to fail is because of the November 5 US elections. If Trump loses, it takes the air out of the CPC's balloon. Add to that they don't have any policy, just three word slogans. The continuing behaviour of the Alberta and Ontario provincial governments will also demonstrate to Canadian voters some idea of what would be in store for us under a CPC government and it isn't pretty. Some one sees that in the CPC which is why they want an election now while their standings in the polls is the highest it will be under PP. They have nowhere else to go but down with his antics.
The CPC would have been better to have kept Erin O'Toole as leader.
mr perfect
Yes, I thought of that too, but I liked the quote anyway
Yes, I had forgotten about the Five Year Rule!
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