Over the past year, if you asked around Ottawa about the transition team that was planning Pierre Poilievre’s first days in government, you were likely to be met with shrugs. The members of the team were not named, and those in the know were not talking.
Such discipline, however, sometimes falters under the influence of a few drinks. That’s what Bryan Evans, a political science professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, found out in late 2024. Around the winter holidays, he ducked into his neighbourhood bar and ran into an old acquaintance. The man wasn’t himself on the transition team, but it turned out he was deeply informed. They slid onto stools for a conversation.
The group was preparing for a Poilievre government to hit the ground running. It was going to be a blitzkrieg.
“You were there at the start of the Mike Harris government.”
“Yeah,” Evans said.
“That’s going to be the playbook.”
It was an ominous sign.
In other words, he’s gonna follow the DOGE playbook. No surprise when he spent so much of last year ranting about cutting everything he can in the government. All public spending gone, and in its place will be the exploitation of raw resources.
PP is oil and minerals first, everything else a distant second.
Mike Harris did it back in the 90’s in Ontario and they still feel the repercussions of it.
And PP is just like almost every other politician in Canada, seeing us as ONLY a resource nation that should be stripped bare. No thought is given to actually ramping up manufacturing and using our own resources to build our own machinery, chipsets, batteries, etc.
Harris was a cunt, as is PP and Trump and Putin and Drug Fraud and almost every other world politician who’s sold their soul to big money. None of them give a shit about people.
Exactly. Canada isn’t some third world country who’s ability is capped at only selling the most basic of commodities at low prices.
We’re not only in the top 10% most educated, skilled, and industrialized nations of the world, but also our financial power means that it’s impossible to compete solely on resource if third world competitors get their shit together.
Hell, we’re at the point that industrial production is only barely profitable due to the education level and power of our currency. Canada needs to keep pushing the upper side of profitable markets, which is the service industry, as we become less and less competitive in the raw commodities market year by year.
Not to mention that there’s a high chance that we’ve already hit peak oil, so that entire sector is going to dwindle over the next few decades. And even if it hasn’t, all the pushes towards non-carbon based energy means that fewer and fewer sectors are reliant on oil every year, making peak an inevitability.