Harris: Beware of anger politics via thehilltimes
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre, pictured Dec. 1, 2021, on the Hill. The Conservatives will likely choose the not-so-fabulous Poilievre in September, but they should remember that Poilievre’s idea of peace, order and good government was the Truckers' Convoy, writes Michael Harris.The story link will be added automatically.HALIFAX—No wonder a lot of people think anger-merchant Pierre Poilievre has a shot at becoming prime minister.
But the CPC doesn’t want reasonable, it wants aggrieved. It wants the new leader to steer away from policy ideas of the kind Charest has injected into the contest in order to reflect the anger that is bubbling up in this country and the United States. Widespread public anger is their ticket to ride—or at least they think so. And maybe it is. There is certainly a lot to be angry about.Top Canadian political and policy opinion and analysis. Saturdays and Sundays.
Political leaders have been whistling past the graveyard on this one, hoping it will go away. It will not. When the seventh and eighth waves of the virus start rolling and restrictions have to be reintroduced, there will be hell to pay. The real stinker in this? It is going to take a long time for Europe to find alternate energy sources to Russian gas. Until they do, Russia’s war machine will remain well-financed and Canada will have helped.
Former president Donald Trump blew off Khashoggi’s gruesome murder, the better to suck up to rich Saudis. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, even became besties with the Crown Prince. Biden, however, promised a different response. The United States would turn Saudi Arabia into a “pariah” state for its homicidal barbarism and massive human rights abuses.
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