VIDEO: Former Canuck minister warns of danger of mass immigration

The Hon. Stockwell "Doris" Day Jr is a former Canadian politician who served as leader of the Canadian Alliance from 2000 to 2001 and later as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He then held several cabinet portfolios under Prime Minister Steve Harpoon, including that of "Minister of Public Safety", and was widely seen as a prominent voice for social conservatives within the Conservative Party.

Mr Day emerged from his burrow six months late this year, with this dire warning for Canadians about the perils of admitting too many Third-Worlders who cannot or will not assimilate to their hosts' culture, bringing with them instead their barbaric cultural practices, which they expect the hosts to respect and adopt.

Don't think, dear reader, that just because you live in a country which is not entirely ruled by liberal elites [i.e. the US of A! Ed.] this doesn't apply to you. Listen up! 

There's just one thing wrong with Mr Day's message. You'll hear it right at the beginning when he says Canada is "not wide open." Sadly, it is! The invaders have prevailed, and Canada has become Canuckistan. 

Too late to ask  now, "How did they get it? What can we do to keep them out?" Whenever a raghead or burrhead wants to enter Canada, all he has to do is walk across the World's Longest Undefended Border TM at any "unauthorized crossing point" such as Roxham Road, near St-Bernard-de-Lacolle QC. 

Don't believe me? Here's a quote from "Federal Court cancels 'unreasonable' release order for accused murderer with alleged ties to the Bishnoi gang", National Post, 5/8/26. "According to court records, after spending some time in the U.S. and Mexico, Singh entered Canada by foot between ports of entry in Quebec in January 2025 and made a refugee claim." Yes, we have a photo!

The notorious Roxham Road border crossing -- the one the story referred to in the NP story -- has supposedly been closed now. A "No Entry" sign has been posted and there are no longer Mounties there to carry the bogus refugees' luggage (minimum tip $5 per bag). But there are "unauthorized entry points" all along the remaining 1000s of miles of open borders. Mr Day is quite right about what's going to happen... nooooo, what's happening already!

NAUGHTY VIDEO: Canuck Conservative riffs on Liberal promises

Speaking at an event in Toronto yesterday, the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition (the Conservative Party of Canada) told a little joke about why a bride was still a virgin in spite of three previous marriages.

If rumors that the Natural Governing Party plan to call a snap election after dropping a record deficit budget next Tuesday prove true, `ti-Pierre will have plenty of opportunities to hone his stand-up shtick on stumps from coast to coast to coast of Canuckistan. But can he make the frostbacks laugh hard enough to actually get up off their chesterfields [American readers can look that up. Ed.] and vote the rascals out?

"Canada's Trump" squeaks back into House of Commons

Battle River - Crowfoot is a riding (electoral district) in the southeast part of the Canadian province of Alberta, so ["half-vast"? Ed.] that it takes an entire day to drive through it. But that's what the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, erstwhile leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, has been doing (along with over 200 other candidates) for the last six weeks, to win a seat in Caanuckistan's House of Commons, having lost his Ottawa seat in the last general election.

After losing his seat in an upset, M Poilievre parachuted into one of Canada’s safest conservative districts -- despite not living there -- to win the by-election called when the Conservative who won the riding (with nearly 80% of the vote) graciously stepped aside to give  his place to his leader. Greater love hath no man. Here's Lucky Pierre on the campaign trail, explaining the horrible mistake Canuck voters made in last April's general election. 

Conservatives were watching closely to see if their leader could ease the worries of voters in the rural heartland [Hey, I've seen that series! Ed.] about how he'll handle the trade war fallout, connect with their economic struggles and bring Canadians together. Said the Mayor of Wainwright AB, "If he isn’t elected, we’d better get down on our knees and start praying, because the end of the world is coming."

It took until the wee hours of this morning, but Walt is pleased to report that M Poilievre led the polls right from the get-go, and beat 212 other candidates [This is not a joke. But it is another story. Ed.] garnering over 80% of the vote. Walt sez: Good for him! And good luck to him!

Election 2025: Are the Liberals going to fool Canadians a fourth time?

By the time you read this, Walt will be in Canada. [Too bad he didn't make it for last night's beyond-thrilling game between Washington and the Habs! Ed.] His mission is to find out whether the Canucks can really be so dumb as to re-elect the Trudeau Liberals, now fronted by Mark Carney, the member of the Laurentian elite who is already being called the Manchurian candidate.

Today's Toronto Sun editorial endorsing the opposition Conservatives, catalogues the many instances of Liberal corruption, incompetence, negligence and plain studity, including these.

* Out-of-control spending has massively increased the size and cost of the federal bureaucracy.  * Government spending on outside consultants skyrocketed to more than $15 billion in the 2022-23 fiscal year. 

* Sustainable Developoment Technology Canada, the jolly green slush fund, violated its conflict of interest policies 90 times, and awarded $59 million to 10 projects that were not eligible and frequently overstated the environmental benefits of its projects. 

* Meanwhile, Canada's armed forces were shamefully nickel-and-dimed, and defence spending became an international embarrassment. 

There's more, lots more misgovernment, but we only have so much space. The point is that the leader of the Liberal government may be different, but his cabinet isn’t. As the Tories' TV commercials say, it's the same old Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal liberal elites, with a new(ish) puppet out front.

Some might also say their branding is new. How do you like "Canada strong" for a persuasive election slogan? Eh? Agent 3 guesses that the Gliberals think Canuck voters have forgotten "The land is strong", a slogan coined by the late Rainmaker, Senator Keith Davey (L) for the 1972 federal election which resulted in a very slim victory for the Libereals, led by... wait for it... Trudeau -- Pierre that is, not Justin.

Maybe that's the problem, a kind of collective amnesia which has caused Canadians to forget, in less than three months, the endless stream of scandals, boondoggles and incompetent decisions inflicted on them for nearly ten years by the government of Trudeau the Son. 

Mr Carney is being hailed as a miracle worker who will single-handedly sweep aside all the problems faced by the Great No-longer-white North. But his cabinet cabinet is populated with the same people, reappointed by him when he assumed office, who brought us such examples of misrule as:

* The ArriveCAN scandal, which in 2020 saw almost $60 million spent on a sole-sourced contract for an app that's now not used and which a private developer said could have been developed over a weekend for a fraction of the price. 

* A massive increase of immigration, legal or illegal, by millions of foreigners who cannot or will not assimilate into Canadian culture, with no plan to house or otherwise accommodate them, other than to put them up in hotels at taxpayers' expense.

Until just this week, when the Liberals' lead in the opinion polls narrowed somewhat, all predictions have been that the man with the widow's hump would storm to victory, in spite of his total lack of charisma or ability to tell the truth about anything.

Mr Carnage's lead in the polls is slowly shrinking. Some models now suggest that a hung parliament is a strong possibility. But it could be worse than that for the poster boy for the WEF. His political inexperience, arrogant behaviour, massive ego, aloofness and reportedly "volcanic temper" have been on full display during the campaign. 

Don’t be surprised, then, if Monday's election result resembles the narrow victory of Emperor Trudeau the First in 1972, or... many Canadians hope and pray... a win, however narrow, for the Conservatives, whom Walt endorses. 

Canadians have had a chance to get to know the white knight who has entered the lists to save the Liberals from electoral disaster, and find that the more they know him, the less they like him. He did poorly in the two leaders' debates. He has swiped ideas from the Conservatives, kept most of Junior's Trudeau’s loony social and economic policies, and has suggested almost nothing new. 

Surely Canucks, distracted though they may be by Trump's trolling and the hockey playoffs, aren't going to be fooled a fourth time! Stay tuned!

Comment posted by "Linda1000" on Blazing Cat Fur: It's like the alzhiemer crowd is just walking in a trance to mark their X for Carney. Dear readers, you can post your comments on WWW, subject to moderation by Ed. of course. Just click on the headline, and this post will open in a new tab, with the comments window open.

VIDEO: Dr Jordan Peterson interviews Canadian PM-in-waiting

This video was recorded on 21 December 2024, and would have been nominated for a Wally Award, had we only known about Instead, we've already placed it on the list of possibilities for Most Important Polical Interview of 2025. 

Dr Jordan Peterson sits down with the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Canadian member of Parliament (and Prime Minister-in-waiting. They discuss his role as Leader of the Opposition, the untapped energy sector, the real reason Canadians cannot afford homes, how Chief Walking Goose (aka Justin Trudeau) has walked the country off a cliff, and what will likely happen in the run-up to the much-anticipated 2025 election. 

This video has received nearly a 1.4 million views so far, and is well worth watching in full, but if you can't handle it all at once, there's a chapter index on the YouTube page.

 

This video has nothing to do with hockey or the weather, but we hope our Canadian readers and friends will be sufficiently motivated to get involved, and not make the same mistake they made three times already!

VIDEO: Remarkable speech: politician calls for humility and free will

It's very unusual for a politician to utter anything than vaguely religious platitudes when speaking to an audience of Christians. Indeed, many would not even attend such a gathering for fear of offending the non-believers and anti-Christians who dominate the polity in today's secular humanist society. 

Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (and, please God, Prime Minister in waiting) is not that type of mealy-mouthed politician. On May 7th, he addressed the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event held in Ottawa under the authority of the speakers of the Senate and the House of Commons on behalf of the Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast Group. 

M Poilievre had the temerity to bring up some important points that most pols would prefer not to discuss. For instance... "Minister" means "servant", as in servant of the people, someone who ministers to the needs of those who elect them. Being a good minister means being humble and listening to the people.

And another... God told people what's right and what's wrong, and gave them free will to choose beetween the two. He did not try to force His will on the people, but told them what He wanted, and the consequences of doing otherwise.

Finally... At the end of the day, God is in His Heaven, and He will reign, unto the end of time, no matter what mere mortals do. As the psalmist wrote (45:11 DRV): "Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted amont the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth."

Whither the People's Party of Canada?

As reported here last Sunday, the self-styled Conservative Party of Canada, having failed under two "moderate" leaders -- Andrew Scheep and Erin O'Tool -- to distinguish itself from the ruling Liberals, has now chosen a new and (they hope) better leader, Pierre Poilievre.

The lickspittle media long ago labelled M Poilievre as a "right wing populist" and "the Canuck version of to Donald Trump". Hardly. Populist he may be, but, as I told you way back in April in "The problem with Poilievre", he is no social conservative, let alone a turn-back-the-clock right-winger. He reminds me not so much of The Donald as of a nasty, bilingual version of Ronald Reagan.

Earlier this week, the new Tory leader [Canadians have stopped using that word. Ed.] announced his new leadership team on Tuesday. Left on the outside looking in was Leslyn Lewis, MP, seen here at the Freedom Rally in Ottawa last February.

Dr Lewis, who has a perfect rating on issues pertaining to life and family. Despite presenting a strong pro-life, pro-faith message, she finished third in the CPC leadership race. 

But there's no room in Pierre Poilievre's coterie for such as she. The press release included an image of "My inflation-busting leadership team", standing together in front of those same Parliament buildings.

One of PP's team is Melissa Lantsman, a proud lesbian Member of Parliament. Another is Ontario MP Eric Duncan, an openly homosexual man, who was appointed to party-caucus liaison,

Another notable absent from the team was former party leader Erin O'Tool, who was ousted quickly after he took a squishy stance on February's Freedom Convoy. M Poilievre's choice of MPs with anti-life and pro-LGBT voting records are not surprising, considering he himself has been given a failing grade by Campaign Life Coalition due to his pro-abortion voting record.

Where will the Conservative Party's more traditionalist and libertarian members, like Andrew Scheer, go now? Will they sit on the back bench, behind PP (on the left, wearing the pink tie) or will they join Canada's only truly conservative party, the People's Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier, on the right. (Geddit?)

The choice will be difficult, if not impossible, even for Dr Lewis, for the simple reason that the PPC seems destined for the ashheap of Canadian political history. They have been languishing at 4-5 per cent in public opinion polls, which is remarkable for a party founded only recently. 

But they have no seats in Parliament -- "Mad Max" failed for the second time to win his own riding of Beauce -- and are in grave danger of being crushed by the stampede of conservatives hurrying to get aboard the CPC bandwagon, since M Poilievre looks certain to beat the socks of Just In Trudeau whenever the latter dares to call an election.

Walt's headline question, then, might better be: Wither the People's Party of Canada? It's sad.

Worth watching: "Individuality and Autonomy: Maxime Bernier and the PPC", recorded by Dr Jordan B. Peterson on The JBP Podcast, exactly a year ago.

Further reading (added 17/9/22): "The Trudeau factor in Pierre Poilievre's big win", by good ole Rex Murphy in the National Post. Subhead: "Conservative chief's leadership campaign was greatly helped by the Liberals' increasingly embarrassing feats of incompetence"

Everything happened at once, Part 2

Pierre Poilievre, the new Conservative (?) leader

Over four months ago, I told you that Pierre Poilievre, was the front-runner in the race to become the third leader of the so-called Conservative Party of Canada since the defeat of Steve Harpoon in 2015.

Last night, in the greatest non-event shown on Canadian TV since the Toronto Maple Leafs bowed out of the first round of last spring's Stanley Cup playoffs, M Poilievre won the leadership on the first ballot, garnering 68% of the points available. Jean Charest, the ex-Liberal still-liberal candidate, finished a distant second, with 16%.

 M Poilievre urged Canucks to Ètake back control of your life!" Now that he has won the party, and has a good chance of winning the country, M Charest's supporters, the liberals, the leftists and the lickspittle media of Canuckistan are quaking in their boots that he will do what he promised.

The meme above was published during the leadership campaign and was (I supposed) meant to scare people into voting for a "less extreme" candidate. If I had been voting, I would have taken the likening of Pierre Poilievre to Dr Jordan Peterson as a ringing endorsement. 

After two leaders who apparently stood for nothing, Canada's Conservatives desperately need a leader who espouses and will fight for conservative values. Alas, I told you in "The problem with Poilievre" (WWW 30/4/22), M Poilievre is not that man. He is pro-abortion, pro-immigration, and pro-queer. The real conservative candidate was Leslyn Lewis, who finished third.  

So when the inevitable Rosie Tuchhus, covering the proceedings on CBC-TV, said Lucky Pierre would have to move to the centre and adopt a more moderate, conciliatory tone, in order to win the country, she was wrong. The attack dog won't change, because he doesn't need to.

M Poilievre has identified and tapped into the anger most Canadians feel about inflation, the lack of affordable housing, and the endless "mandates" (e.g. the ArriveCAN app) which take away their freedom. Thus he has created a populist groundswell similar to that which propelled President Trump into the Oval Office, all without straying from the path of political correctness on the issues which count for true conservatives.

He preaches classic conservatism -- smaller government; getting natural resources to market; less government interference in people's personal and professional lives; ending the Liberals' efforts to censor the Internet; defunding the CBC and ending media bailouts; and fiscal restraint, after a long period without it. 

All those policies find favour not just with hard-right conservatives, but the average Canuck. The chattering classes spent hours trying to figure out M Poilievre's appeal to young Canadians, who turned out in 1000s at his rallies. It wasn't hard to understand. They are looking, hoping... and will be voting... for at least a partial return to the lifestyle their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Or just some help paying the bills. Or just to be left alone. 

That's why Pierre Poilievre will knock the socks off Blackie McBlackface in the next election, whenever it comes. You read it here first!

Canada's "Conservatives" bar three SoCons from leadership race

Turns out there are more people who, for some unaccountable reason, want to lead the self-styled "Conservative" Party of Canada than I told you about on Monday. Agent 3, who follows the politics of Canuckistan more closely than I do -- I can't handle the smell up close -- says there are not four, but six candidates who will appear on the ballot when party members vote for a new leader in September.

On Monday, and previously in "The problem with Poilievre", WWW 30/4/22, I gave you the rundown on Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis and Patrick Brown, who presently rank in that order in the opinion polls. But who are those other guys, the two in the top row?

Conservative Member of Parliament Scott Aitchison and Independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber have also been accepted by the cuckservatives in charge of organizing the leadership election as "verified" candidates. That means they proved they had at least C$300,000 (about $235,000 in readl money) to get through the toll gate, plus 500 endorsement signatures from members in 30 different ridings. 

Scott Aitchison is the only candidate who could be described as a non-city person. He represents the truly beautiful Ontario riding of Parry Sound-Muskoka and concerns himself with issues relevant to farmers and other real people. In particular, Mr Aitchison wants to see an end to Canada's crazy supply management system, which makes things like milk and eggs cost more than they do across the border. That was the hill Maxime Bernier chose to die on in 2017... and die he did.

(((Roman Baber))) emigrated from the Soviet Union with his family to Israel, thence to Canada. The Jewish lawyer was elected to the Ontario legislature as a Progressive Conservative, representing the Toronto ghetto of York Centre. Whyen he had the temerity to oppose vaccine mandates and lockdowns, he got booted out of the PC caucus and now sits as an Independent. He says he believes in "democratic conservatism", whatever that means.

Today's real news, though, is that the Conservative party elite rejected three putative candidates, even though they had the money and the signatures, because they were "unacceptable" for reasons which were not explained.  According to the party's leadership election rules, the Leadership Candidate Nomination Committee, the group of party stalwarts reviewing applications from leader wannabes, can take into consideration "any other information they see fit to ascertain the suitability of an applicant." They can then recommend to the organizing committee that a particular candidate be barred from running. 

Three candidates have been told "Thanks for coming out. Now bugger off." Joël Étienne, another lawyer from Toronto, and the only genuine French-speaker to put his name forward, told Radio-Canada he personally delivered the required paperwork to CPC HQ Friday afternoon, well before the deadline, but was told that the party wouldn't accept a credit card as payment for some of the necessary fees. M Étienne also said the party rejected some of the signatures he collected as "invalid", withouot saying why.

Joseph Bourgault, a Saskatchewan business owner (Bourgault Tillage Tools, if you need a good hoe), is a social conservative who was strongly endorsed by Campaign Life Coalition. In addition to his anti-abortion credentials, Bourgault was a member of the Freedom Convoy and participated in protests against COVID-related measures like vaccine mandates earlier this year. Obviously such "unacceptable views" (as Mr Socks would say) made him unfit to stand.

Grant Abraham, a consultant [lawyers and consultants, consultants and lawyers -- will it never end? Ed.] also didn't make the cut. In a social media post, his campaign said Mr Abraham was told Sunday he has been "deemed ineligible" by the party. He has criticized Conservative MPs for failing to stop Bill C-4, the Liberal government's ban on conversion therapy. He has also called for a return to a "Judeo-Christian framework" in Canada and an end to secularism. And he's surprised he won't be on the ballot? Really?

That leaves Leslyn Lewis as the only social conservative candidate. (The position of Messrs Aitchison and Baber on abortion and similar issues is unknown.) The Laurentian elites can't touch Ms Lewis because she's too well-known and because... well, you get the picture. She's the "Conservative" answer to the objection that the party is dominated by straight white men.

They have no answer, though, to the charge that the CPC is dominated by the old "Bay Street boys". All of the "acceptable" candidates are from Ontario. Mr Charest pretends to be a Québecer but according to  every poll is reviled by real Québécois. There are no candidates from west of Lake Huron or east of Montréal. Mr Poilievre, born and raised in Calgary, turned his back on the West the minute he arrived in Ottawa at the age of 24, and wouldn't know which end of a straw to put in his mouth. Expect Western alienation to intensify, no matter who wins.

Expect also a flight of real conservative Conservatives to a truly conservative party. No matter who wins, only Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada will be strengthened by the Conservatives' internecine war. Lifetime pct .990.

More on Poilievre + Lewis and Brown

Walt has had some adverse comments (on Disqus) to "The problem with Poilievre", WWW 30/4/22. Seems like a lot of Canadian conservatives (with and without a big C) are jumping on the "Poilievre for Prime Minister" bandwagon. He's drawing huge crowds -- in the 1000s -- wherever he goes, in spite of the fact that the Conservative Party of Canada leadership vote is months away, and that it's only a contest to choose a new leader, with no election in the offing until 2025.

What seems to be surprising the lickspittle Canuck meeja is the large numbers of young people -- teens and twenty-somethings -- turning out to hear PP. Agent 3, who's closer to the action than I am, says Mr Poilievre is tapping into the massive, frustrated energies of a disillusioned electorate that has dismissed the idea that there is some duty to vote. For them, it's like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, and then offered a choice between a Chev and a Ford. [This should not be taken as a comment on the impending Ontario election. Ed.]

The secret of attracting and turning on a crowd is getting turned on by the crowd. Pierre Poilievre is the only candidate for the Tory leadership who seems to understand this. He's the only one who can connect with people on some kind of visceral, instinctive level that is both above and below "traditional politics" In this he resembles... wait for it... President Donald J. Trump.

That's great, but the nub of the Poilievre Problem, IMHO, is that in reality he's just another good, big-C Conservative, more interested in power than in principle. The Conservative Party of Canada is an atavistic entity, hopelessly old-fashioned, still trying to be all things to all people, the Natural Alternative to the Natural Governing (read: Liberal) Party. There is no hope of beating the Liberals, let alone accomplishing anythning genuinely new or different in Canadian politics, until the Conservative Party is put out of its self-inflicted misery.

Before I run out of space [again. Ed.] let's take a look at the leader wannabes trailing Mr Poilievre and his not-too-close competitor, Jean Charest.

With just over 3% support in recent polling, Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton ON, is in fourth place. For Mr Brown, this is a grudge match. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament in 2006, and, seeing no future on the Harper back benches, jumped into Ontario provincial politics in 2014, and was elected leader of the oxymoronically named Progressie Conservative Party of Ontario in 2015.

Under Mr Brown's leadership the PCs won five by-elections, and seemed poised for success. But the shithammer struck early in 2018 when he was me-tooed by two women, dating back to the time he was a federal MP. Brown denied the allegations and initially refused to step down, but you know how it goes these days. Canada's CTV admitted, in March of this year, that there were "innacuracies" in its report, and, errr, the two women weren't under age after all. 

But the damage had been done. Mr Brown was booted out of the PC caucus and quit provincial politics for the brownfields of Brampton where he landed with him bum in the butter, elected Mayor in October of 2018. To understand how that happened, just look at the picture at left.

All ye need to know about Brampton is that Canadians of European descent account for about 25% of the population. Another 20% or so are black, but are to busy with other pursuits [word chosen carefully. Ed.] to bother with politics.

The majority of Bramptonians are from south Asia, and the majority of those are Sikhs. All you  have to do get elected in Brampton (as a whitey) is get yourself declared an honorary Sikh, turn up for the Khalsa day parade, support an "independent Khalistan", etc, and you're in like Flynn Singh. 

Works in Toronto too, and since Patrick Brown is the only leadership candidate from the GTA, he seems to be counting on the BIPOC vote to see him in the Leader's chair. Walt gives him two chances....

Slightly ahead of Mr Brown in the early polling is Leslyn Lewis, the only woman and the only person of colour in the field. I didn't go for the cheap "dark horse" joke, because Ms Lewis deserves to be taken seriously. She is the the favourite of the social conservative wing up the party, and -- unlike Messrs Charest and Brown -- is a Member of Parliament, representing the southwestern Ontario riding of  Haldimand-Norfolk. Getting elected as a black woman in white-bread country is an achievement in itself.

Last week, Ms Lewis released two major platform updates. In "No Hidden Agenda", posted on her campaign website, she writes:  "I am pro-life. I am not ashamed to say it.... These are issues that concern us all. When we are afraid of talking about important topics, we don't do anything to improve life for Canadian women. That’s why I put forward a 'no hidden agenda' platform on abortion in the 2020 race. I stand by those policies and would put forward the same four if elected leader now."

Her platform reads as follows: "I will fight for the value of every girl through banning the misogynistic practice of sex-selective abortions. I will protect vulnerable women by criminalizing coerced abortions. I will increase funding for pregnancy centres. And I will end abortion funding overseas and focus Canadian funding on actually helping women and girls overseas thrive."

Leslyn Lewis stands on principle. Walt says, good for you and God bless you! Mind you, her chances of winning the CPC leadership are not much better than those of Patrick Brown. But if you call yourself a social conservative, and eligible to vote in the Conservative leadership, you should vote for her!

Here's why. Pierre Poilievre is the acknowledged front-runner in the race, and lots of people will vote for him because they think (mistakenly) that he's a true conservative. Patrick Brown is a liberal, a "progressive consesrvative", even more so than Jean Charest. Every vote for Leslyn Lewis will come off Mr Poilievre's pile. If Mr Brown fizzles, as seems likely, and if Ms Lewis runs a good third, Jean Charest might just squeak through.

But (Walt hears you say) hang on! Is that what you want? Do you want another pinko leading the alt-liberal party? Answer: YES, because this time real conservatives like Ms Lewis (and maybe even Mr Poilievre) should realize the truth of what I wrote above about the CPC, and quit the Party. 

They might even join Max Bernier's People's Party of Canada, to offer a real choice to fed-up Canucks in 2025. That would be my strategy. If you have a better suggestion, do click on the headline to open the comments window, and let us hear about it!

The problem with Poilievre

 As I was saying... The front-runner in the race to become the third leader of the Conservative Party of Canada since the defeat of Steve Harpoon in 2015 is Pierre Poilievre, who says that he is running not for the Tory leadership, but to become Prime Minister of Canada. 

The Canadian parliamentary system [Is dis a system? Mr Natural] doesn't work quite that way, since Canucks don't elect their prime minister directly, as Americans do their president. But no matter. M Poilievre promises to make Canada "the freest nation on earth" and urges Canucks to "take back control of your life!"

M Poilievre (the one on the left) chooses freedom from the overarching command and control of Emperor Trudeau's nanny state as the hill on which he will die. Or so he says. That's why he supported the Freedom Convoy. But for doing so he has been attacked by the leader wannabe, currently a distant second in the race, the once-and-future liberal Jean Charest.

John James "Jean" Charest is Yesterday's Man. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1984 as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several federal cabinet positions between 1986 and 1993. He became the leader of the PC Party in 1993 and remained in the role until he saw a better opportunity, and jumped into provincial (Québec) politics in 1998, as leader of the Québec Liberal Party. The Liberals formed the government in 2003, and M Charest held the office of Premier until 2012.

Now Jean Charest, or "JC" as his supporters call him, has risen from the political dead, and stalks the land, zombie-like, urging Conservatives to put "Progressive" back in the party's name, and save Canada from the evil conservative PP.

In fact, M Poilievre is no conservative, at least when it comes to social issues. He is pro-choice (read: pro-abortion). He does not propose to close Canada's porous border, or reduce immigration levels to a number which would be acceptable to most Canadians [like zero? Ed.] He does not promise to cut taxes and/or reduce out-of-control government spending. His pitch is "to make Canada the freest nation* on earth" -- sufficiently vague that it can be embraced by everyone from "moderate conservatives" to the rightist hard core.

And that's the problem with Pierre Poilievre. At the end of the day, he's still a professional politician, more interested in power than principle. After graduating from the University of Calgary, he founded (with a partner)  a company called 3D Contact Inc., which focused on providing political communications, polling and research services. He worked on Stockwell "Doris" Day's campaign for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, a short-lived successor to the PC Party, and after Mr Day's tenure as Leader of the Official Opposition, worked for him as an advisor.

In 2004, at the tender age of 24, Pierre Poilievre was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, and  he's been there ever since. He served in Steve Harpoon's cabinet from 2013 until the Tories got the boot in 2015, and now sits on the other side of the House as Bad Cop to the Good Cop of the two Fredos who've held the title of Leader of the Opposition.

One more thing. M Poilievre is not as French-Canadian as his name suggests. In fact he's not French-Canadian at all. The little bastard's biological mother was 16 years old when she gave birth to him, and is of Irish descent. Her father, whom  wee Pierre first met as an adult, was Irish-Canadian. [Sure and what's wrong with that?! Ed.]  

M Poilievre was born in Calgary, and adopted at birth by schoolteachers Marlene and Donald Poilievre. He was raised in Calgary and has never been heard to speak a word of French. *If he were even somewhat bilingual, he'd know better than to use the word "nation" in his campaign slogan, because in French, "nation" means a people, not a nation-state as is the meaning in English. So in multi-cultural Canada, particularly in la Belle Province, "nation" is a loaded word.

A good politician -- a professional politician -- is like a good defenceman in hockey. He'll go hard into the corner and do What Must Be Done, and emerge smiling, and occasionally licking drops of blood off his teeth. Winning is the name of the game for Pierre Poilievre. He talks the conservative talk right now, because he wants to win the Conservative leadership. But winning the party is not the same as winning the country, and if M Poilievre has to ditch conservative principles and policies for the sake of appealing to the moderate majority of Canadians, that's what he'll do.

Coming soon-ish: The other contenders for the Conservative leadership, and how I'd play it if I were [Sorry. You're out of space again. Ed.]

Angry Canucks hit the streets again; cowardly Conservatives MIA

Ed. tells me that at least one reader has demanded to know where I've been since Tuesday. He (the reader) accuses Ed. of having me drawn and quartered, then burying me in the backyard, under the blanket of creeping charlie. Terrible stuff that. If you stand still for more than five seconds it'll curl around your shoes and pull you down.

The accusation is baseless, of course. Ed. doesn't have a horse, let alone the four required for a proper quartering. In fact Ed. hates horses, because they're smarter than he is. Smarter, in fact, than most humans and all animals except maybe pigs. And there's some debate about that.

Pigs are very smart. Did you know that pigs can be trained to shit in one corner of their pen and to push, with their snouts, a button which flushes the excreta into a trough? I have seen it with mine own eyes, at the Central Experimental in Ottawa, Canada.

Which brings me to the reason for my absence. I was preparing to be part of the latest iteration of February's Freedom Convoy, which saw 100s of truckers and other fed-up Canadians take to the streets of the world's second-coldest capital to protest against vaccine mandates, Just In Trudeau, censorship, Trudeau, the lickspittle media, Trudeau, Covid lockdowns, Trudeau, inflation, and... You get the picture.

The new rally for freedom, unfolding right now, has been dubbed "Rolling Thunder", and I thought I would fit right in, since Mrs Walt says rolling thunder is the noise I make when we play "Dutch Oven" in bed on cold winter nights. Turns out the new protest is being led, not by truckers but by bikers! So it seemed you needed a motorcycle to participate, and I won't get on one of those things since Dave (an old buddy of Agent 6 and my goodself) got seriously injured when his bike jumped on top of him.

So I didn't go, and spent last night in the company of Poor Len Canayen, watching the final game of the Montréal Canadiens' season, about which he will write later this weekend. While we were crying in our beer (Molson, of curse), Rolling Thunder started rolling. Many of the demonstrators were also part of the Freedom Convoy. 

The protest started relatively calmly on Parliament Hill, but as night fell a line of big rigs, campers and other trucks made their way into the city core. Protesters gathered around the trucks, and police in tactical gear formed a line and faced them down. Police said in a release that seven people were arrested on various charges, including assaulting police, and 24 vehicles were towed. At least one truck also had its windows broken.

Rolling Thunder protest is expected to continue today Saturday) with the convoy of hundreds of motorcycles moves through downtown Ottawa, with a stop at the National War Memorial, before moving to Parliament Hill for another rally.

I'll be waiting to see whether any of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada (yes, the "help wanted" sign is in the window again) shows up to support or at least talk with the protesters. When the Freedom Convoy hit Ottawa in February, Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface went to ground at a cottage somewhere in the Laurentians. Then Tory leader Erin O'Tool was said to have met with some of truckers at an undisclosed location out of sight of cameras.

"Mad Max" Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada, mingled with the truckers and made supportive noises, but he's just a conservative with a small C. The only big-C Conservative who did likewas was Pierre Poilievre, now the front-runner in the race to succeed Mr O'Tool. [You're out of space. Come back later. Ed.]

Canuck Conservative leader pledges to end political correctness

Erin O'Tool, leader of the Allegedly Conservative Party of Canada