In Pierre Poilievre’s world, we’d all be living in ‘Leave it to Beaver’

Only once Poilievre eventually decides what he stands for will Canadians be able to decide if he's prime ministerial material. For now, the country doesn’t know if it has the organ grinder, or the organ grinder’s monkey.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre at the party's policy convention in Québec City on Sept. 8, 2023. His party has learned nothing from the pandemic, nothing from its support of the disastrous Freedom Convoy, and nothing from the sick excesses of Trumpian politics it seems so hell-bent to emulate, writes Michael Harris.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

September 18, 2023

HALIFAX—It is obvious that Pierre Poilievre has never read the great American poet Wallace Stevens, who famously said: “sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”

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