‘More about reaction than action’: Tory strategists say Poilievre’s CBC attacks are ‘vintage Pierre,’ red meat for base

'[Poilievre] thinks this is a winning issue, and when he puts it out on social media, he's seeing in the response that a lot of people are agreeing with him,' says Summa Strategies' Daniel Perry.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responds to a question from Radio-Canada's Valerie-Micaela Bain in the House of Commons foyer in the West Block on March 29.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

April 19, 2023

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent online “trolling” of the CBC as “Trudeau propaganda” may strike some as a “gimmicky” political stunt, but Tory strategists argue that so long as he continues to keep his base happy and his opponents overrea...

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