Why Pierre Poilievre and some other some Conservative leadership candidates are flirting with a World Economic Forum conspiracy theory linked to the ‘Freedom Convoy’ Opinion by Justin_Ling
Dorion is streaming the conversation to his modest Facebook network. “You asked me to ask him some questions about the World Economic Forum — what’s his position; whether he’s a member of it,” Dorion says to the camera, in French, as Poilievre smiles next to him. “I’ll let Mr. Poilievre answer that.”
Lengthy reports, conspiratorial news sites and rambling lawsuits have baselessly argued that the forum is, at least, conspiring with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to enable a Marxist takeover and, at worst, complicit in designing the COVID-19 virus as a pretext to sell vaccines, perhaps even using the inoculations as a vehicle for 5G-enabled surveillance chips.
A decade on, it’s the right that appears paranoid about the agenda of the forum: It is a plan, conspiracists say, that will eviscerate Canadian sovereignty and bring about a new world order governed from Europe and Beijing. Donald Trump’s time in office was at least partly defined by his invectives against globalists and the so-called deep state, and his electoral failure in 2020 became the “big lie” that the election was rigged, perhaps with the help of an international conspiracy — ranging from a Toronto-based election company to the Communist Party of China.
However, a saving grace in Australia, they noted, was that the conspiracy theories were, almost exclusively, being pushed by minor parties. That’s not true everywhere. “Australia is not in the same situation as some other countries, where mainstream and influential politicians are openly endorsing baseless conspiracy theories,” the researchers noted.
Some 2,200 supporters contributed money to fund far-right Canadian media outlet Rebel News’s trip to Switzerland — or, as they called it, “chasing down globalists.” From Davos, one Rebel correspondent drew ominous connections between Bill Gates’ funding for a smallpox vaccine and the current global monkeypox outbreak: “What a coincidence,” he added, suggestively.
Leadership candidate Roman Baber, despite aligning himself with figures who have pushed the most outlandish iterations of the theory, has largely declined to engage. “We’re not up against WEF, but the radical left-wing ideology it espouses,” he tweeted in March. “It seeped into every institution. We’re not fighting Klaus Schwab, we’re fighting Karl Marx!”
Joseph Bourgault, a self-described “adviser” to the Ottawa occupation and leader of the activist group Canadians for Truth, mounted failed a dark-horse bid for the Conservative leadership.
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