Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter to his NDP counterpart asking Jagmeet Singh to pull his party’s support for the Liberal government so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.

“Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition. No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” Poilievre wrote in his letter.

“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as ‘Sellout Singh,’” Poilievre said.

Poilievre’s challenge to Singh comes as the parties square off in a federal byelection in Manitoba, a Sept. 16 vote that is expected to be a competitive two-way race between the Conservative and NDP candidates.

  • pipsqueak1984
    17·
    4 months ago

    Dude’s never worked an hourly wage job in life.

    He worked a job as a teenager and started his own business before becoming an MP… this info isn’t hard to find.

    • healthetank
      9·
      4 months ago

      As a teenager, Poilievre had a job at Telus doing corporate collections by calling businesses.[16] He also later worked briefly as a journalist for Alberta Report, a conservative weekly magazine.[17]

      Neither of these are hourly jobs.

      In 2003, Poilievre founded a company called 3D Contact Inc. with business partner Jonathan Denis,[29] who became an Alberta Cabinet minister years later. Their company focused on providing political communications, polling and research services.[30] After founding the company, Poilievre ran for MP as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, which had recently been formed from a merger the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives.

      This wouldn’t be an hourly job either. The links to the source for him starting this company don’t list Poilievre as a director, or any other sign that he actually started this company, or what his role at it was. I’ve tried searching but can’t find anything else that verifies this.

    • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      4 months ago

      His business where both he and his partner dipped to politics as soon as possible. And was a paperboy, with one summer job in university. I’ve worked literal years more than he ever has.

      *Edit: and working in political parties is not working, that’s politics.

      • pipsqueak1984
        14·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, and so have I. That doesn’t change the fact that “has never worked for an hourly wage” is a false statement.