Anger and hate didn’t work, Trump couldn’t hang it all on Sleepy Joe

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can imitate Trumpian politics to his heart’s content. But that is old, tired, and empty politics.

Donald Trump, left, and Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre can try to turn the Freedom Convoy into a moderate 'Canadian' event. He can beat the dead horse that vaccine mandates were somehow an attack on civil liberties, rather than a life-saving public policy, writes Michael Harris. Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Michael Harris

November 14, 2022

HALIFAX—The way Pierre Poilievre tells it, everything in Canada is broken. And Justin Trudeau is to blame. As a political strategy, that might work with members of the Flat Earth Society, or those who think Elvis is still in the building. Regular people know that when a politician tells them the ...

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