Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging that a future government would cut what he calls ‘wasteful foreign aid’ and would not allow funding to go to ‘dictators, terrorists and multi-national bureaucracies.’

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    10 months ago

    Instead of Parroting the Media, maybe actually go and listen to his uncut, unclipped answering of the media. Unlike what Trudeau seems to do, Pierre is seemingly actually able to speak a whole sentence without stuttering - almost like he is actually confident in his remark: And that is bloody refreshing.

    Pierre Poilievre does not “talk straight”:

    But Poilievre’s team have recently instituted a policy whereby journalists may only ask one question each, no follow-up, five in total. (His flacks cite “time constraints” at each event.) This practice revives an old tactic from the previous Harper government, which grew tired of the media by the end of its nearly-ten-years in power and clamped down on all the pesky question-asking.

    The Conservative media wranglers snatch the microphone out of reporters’ hands as soon as they ask their question, depriving them of any retort to dear leader’s rants.

    In responding, Poilievre generally lumps these questions into one of two categories — ones he likes, which he can use to deliver an answer that may go viral; and ones he doesn’t, whereby he can attack the journalist for asking them and achieve even more virality.

    https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-pierre-poilievre-media-circus

    He brings receipts, too. You can see his entire unedited question and response if you want to check his characterization.

    Trudeau says a whole lot of nothing in most of his responses, granted, so he’s not much better. At least he usually addresses the actual question?