Smile. Blame Trudeau. Repeat.

Smile. Blame Trudeau. Repeat.

While Canada is projected to be the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2025, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre continues to talk down Canada and insult Canadians’ intelligence with cheap slogans, anti-Canadian rhetoric and populist fear-mongering.

Rather than proposing constructive ideas to make Canadians’ lives better — as he was elected to do — the leader of the opposition’s M.O. is to blame Justin Trudeau for all of Canada’s problems, even those that fall under provincial or municipal jurisdictions, such as healthcare and housing. He’s done this while choosing partisanship over supporting policies that would actually help solve Canadians’ financial problems, voting against the Canadian Dental Care Plan, $10-a-day child care, the Canada Child Benefit, raising the federal minimum wage and the National School Food Program, to name a few. He even voted against the Liberals’ plan to build almost 4 million homes.

According to Léger, just 26% of Canadians think Poilievre is the best choice for prime minister, proving that he’s nowhere near as popular as his supporters think he is. It appears that rage farming has its limits in Canada.

Montreal is the most anti-Pierre Poilievre city in Canada

As Poilievre visits our city today, a reminder that just 17% of Montrealers have a positive opinion of the Conservative Party leader. https://t.co/ky3tGcIx3S
— Cult MTL (@cultmtl) June 19, 2024

Smile. Blame Trudeau. Repeat.

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