Life in the woods (of #PEI) à la Thoreau. Writer, global citizen, and shameless idealist. Author of the best-selling Canada's Food Island cookbook. #LGBTQ+
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Dear fellow Canadians,
I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from across the country. Yesterday, Wendy Rodgers, President of UPEI offered to host a round table discussion and Dominque Griffon, Dean of AVC offered an apology. I have accepted both.
"We don’t need nostalgia – we need vision. We don’t need division – we need connection. And we don’t need to wait – P.E.I. has everything it needs to shape its future. The question is: Will we embrace this moment?" — Stuart Hickox
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Nurtured in right-wing extremism from an early age, Poilievre would weaken & dismantle Canada, leaving us extremely vulnerable to Trump. #cdnpoli https://t.co/cswHL4FMtH
@PierrePoilievre You are both fortunate to have benefitted from a generous, progressive, kind Canada. And your approach is none of these things. You're not qualified to be Prime Minister.
@PierrePoilievre Hi. With all due respect, pack up your shovel and take the Bridge. We don't need your negative, divisive politics here on #PEI#cdnpoli (I'm happy to pay the $50 fare so you can cross to NB)
@lraitt Your team blew it this time, Lisa. It's gratifying to see negative sloganeers going down. And I'm a Conservative. You may need to bring back the PC banner after this.
It’s sure interesting to watch the tides turn on @PierrePoilievre. I guess that’s the problem when you lean all the way into anti-Canada populism … and then that perspective is no longer popular. It’s hard to pivot.
For the last 18 months he's campaigned on Canada being broken. According to the Globe and Mail, a new book about him, called Ripper, says “his relentless hyperbolic smearing of the country’s condition – while not putting it in the perspective of global forces battering nations everywhere – made Canadians feel worse than warranted. He drove the mood of the country down."
He supported the Freedom Convoy. He used angry rhetoric and fear mongering, and blasted everyone and anything in his way. He punched down on Canadians struggling with poverty, mental health issues and addiction.
He attacks the media. It’s a classic Trump move but Poilievre miscalculated. We don’t have the Fox News/CNN silos. Canadians still watch or read mainstream media. Not letting them travel with him on his GIANT plane during the campaign means his speeches get less coverage, and it’s not as friendly.
And in recent weeks, the most miscalculated moves of all have been these weak attacks on Mark Carney: that he took a limo to his candidacy announcement (he didn’t), he wears expensive shoes, he was tight with Ghislaine Maxwell (he wasn’t), he has a lot of investments, he didn’t cite sources properly in his Oxford PhD 30 years ago … it’s petty, easily disproven, and turns voters off even more.
I’m so glad this is all coming to light a month before the election. I hope it’s enough to make sure we don’t end up with “an angry teenager in the body of a grown man” for our Prime Minister.
It’s just not what we need at this moment in history.
#CANpoli #CdnPoli
Prime Minister Mark Carney, everybody.
This guy is doing such a good job, I'm thinking he may crush seat records in this election.
He's going to blow by 200 seats if he keeps it up.
So she went to a foreign government and asked them to interfere in Canadian affairs in order to advance her political position. There are words for that. https://t.co/iyyuR9Mttk