Posted at 12:00 p.m.
Get away from Trudeau
I am ready to vote Conservative at the federal level if Jean Charest becomes leader of the Conservative Party. I am convinced that we absolutely must remove Justin Trudeau and the Liberals from power in order to regain sound and responsible management of the federal government’s finances while restoring a minimum of efficiency to the machinery of government, instead of limiting ourselves to buying votes at all costs with hard-earned taxpayers’ money. Electing Mr. Poilievre as Prime Minister would be like replacing one irresponsible person with another.
Pierre Lemelin
A scary twist
I am afraid of the turn that politics will take in Canada if Poilievre is elected and also if Duhaime elects deputies in Quebec. It will lower the debate and bring about an American culture.
Patricia Boivin
Still voted Conservative, but…
I’m from Levis. Since Steve Blaney has been in politics, I have always voted Conservative. If Pierre Poilievre is elected leader of the party, rest assured that I will not be voting Conservative. Too bad for Dominique Vien.
Renald Boucher
Open door for Trudeau
The election of Poilievre as leader of the CPC would open the door wide to a majority re-election of Trudeau. Indeed, neither Ontario nor Quebec, which represent more than 65% of the Canadian population, will follow this polemicist.
Donald Driver
Like Trump did
He just wants to turn Canada upside down like Trump did to the United States. People who could be good leaders, sensible people, stay away from politics. We spend our time trying to criticize them, insult them, look for scandals. In the past, we thought before giving our vote. Today, most party leaders talk like school children and inspire no confidence.
Rose Mondou
Of his time
It seems increasingly clear that this Poilievre will be the next leader of the Conservative Party. Sorry! Not that Jean Charest is perfect, but at least he is of his time! And has the good at heart, whether in Quebec or Canada! I definitely have the impression that these accusations against Mr. Brown are very timely. Coincidence? Not sure ! Worrying!
Celine Roy
doldrums
Mr. Poilievre is a dangerous representative in the sense that he is a “cut and paste” of Trump. In addition, he will plunge us into the same slump as his friend from the United States. Charest is no better, because his past is tainted. Two women are missing who should have presented themselves: Mme Mila Mulroney (lawyer) (sic) and Mme Tasha Kheiriddin (political journalist).
Claude Marcil, Montreal
A weirdo
I do not know what to think of the Conservative Party, in the sense that I would not have thought possible the arrival of such a weirdo as Pierre Poilievre. The drift worries me all the less as it will allow the Liberals to keep power. But it’s a drift all the same and a drift can lead to demolishing a democracy…
Pierre Chatelain
Unanimity
It’s quite shocking to see your bias against Pierre Poilievre. If he is unanimous with so many conservative voters, you are not going to make us believe that they are all evil Trumpist conservatives sold on conspiracy theories. This article reveals your fear of seeing him win against Justin Trudeau, and thus lose certain privileges.
Too much is like not enough, in my opinion, by publishing this kind of article you are only convincing us otherwise.
Denis Mercier
Good riddance
If there is a good riddance, it is that of this Patrick Brown, a notorious anti-Quebecer, false and contagious, struggling with one scandal after another, who has nothing positive to bring to a political party, whatever it is.
No offense to the visibly pro-Charest columnist despite his many skeletons in the closet just waiting to be resuscitated. Would we pinch our noses so easily?
Jacques Bordeleau
A libertarian country
Poilievre as prime minister? If that happens, the Quebec independence movement will make sense. Who wants to live in a libertarian country whose currency is bitcoin and which denies climate change? The art of destroying one of the most enviable countries in the world.
Luc LeBel, Laval
Two similar characters
To me, voting for Pierre Poilievre is the Canadian equivalent of voting for Trump in the United States. The two characters have visions and ways of communicating that are similar in many ways. Not particularly bright… The near future will tell us if the population of Canada remains more balanced, or if, sadly, it becomes on the contrary as polarized, fundamentalist and extremist as the Americans.
Luc Langelier
Nothing more to envy
If the members of the party elect a guy like Poilievre, we have nothing to envy the Americans with the election of Trump, we are not smarter! We can’t wait for Charest’s election… No matter what we think, at least he’s a Democrat…
Serge Roy
good or bad
Are there good or bad populists just as there could be good or bad democrats? We must answer affirmatively to this delicate question; everything is relative and must take into account the needs of a nation. Are there pure populists or pure democrats? There is reason to doubt that too, Manichaeism is an easy view of the mind that would like everything to be black or white, populists love that, but are immediately confronted with reality, which brings them down to earth. A democrat for his part sometimes dreams that the good guys definitely crush the bad guys, again he will be disappointed. It’s unclear where exactly Poilievre stands, but many are risk averse.
Christian Castonguay, Laval