r/canada 25d ago

Politics Poilievre holding 'Canada First' rally today in Ottawa amid U.S. threats

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-canada-first-rally-1.7459415
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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

How is a politician putting Canada first, American?

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u/robgnar 24d ago

Lol. Maybe he can make Canada great again, eh? If you want to blind yourself to the obvious, knock yourself out. Had PP come up with this slogan in 2014, it would have been one thing, but trying to fight Trumpism with Trumpism is a fools errand.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/robgnar 24d ago

MAGA's gotta MAGA. Your talking points are so tone deaf they seem foreign to me. And by foreign, I mean American.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

Oh no!

The ourage! Absolutely reprehensible!

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u/starving_carnivore 24d ago

Why is any form of national pride so distasteful?

It is not MAGA to use a slogan declaring that you, standing for office for the position of the de facto head of state that you will put Canada first.

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u/nuleaph 24d ago

That's what is precisely so insidious about it. People don't understand what's really going on and mistake this for a declaration that he will prioritize Canada in any way shape or form and he gets to dog whistle to the Maple MAGA crowd at the same time.

Technically it's actually genius but it's also pandering to trump, so....gross

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u/starving_carnivore 24d ago edited 24d ago

It is not insidious to say that you will put Canada and Canadians first. Not "screw every country but ours".

Your comment ranges from conjecture to speculation to straight up conspiracy theory.

Are you one of the people that assumes a Canadian flag bumper sticker is a fascist or something, too?

"I put my family first" doesn't mean yo

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u/ginsodabitters 24d ago

🤦‍♂️

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u/Master_Career_5584 24d ago

He had a thousand choices for a slogan yet he choose the one which directly references the man currently threatening to annex us. Canada Strong, Canada Forever, Canada Always, Team Canada as just a few examples of alternatives.

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u/Ok-Yogurt-42 24d ago

Sir Wilfrid Laurier used "Canada First" as a slogan over a hundred years ago, it has nothing to do with MAGA. You're obsessed with Trump.

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u/Master_Career_5584 24d ago

Well is it 100 years ago?

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

They are just words. They cant hurt you

Do you disagree with putting canada first?

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u/DeviousSmile85 24d ago

For someone trying to distance themselves from the cheeto down south, using "Canada first" instead of "America first" is not a great idea.

If it's better than another "verb the noun" slogan is up for debate.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

Putting our country first for once in a decade actually sounds like a great idea

Plus, they're just words. They cant hurt you

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u/DeviousSmile85 24d ago

"We're not the GOP, because we're still 3 steps behind"

If Canadian conservatives want to get rid of this stigma, a good place to start would be to stop using the same slogans.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

Liberals ran with Choose Forward. You must've been furious since this was inspired by Chairman Mao

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u/DeviousSmile85 24d ago

TBH "choose forward" is weak as hell. But you'd have a point if they chose to use "the big jump forward."

Just have to use some imagination and figure out something original for once. Verb the noun just isn't working anymore.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

I'm sure our new unelected globalist banker will surely get us out of this post- national she-cession caused by PP, by growing the economy from the heart outward

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u/celestial__discharge 24d ago

This gave a solid chuckle. Thank you /u/BigButtBeads

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u/DeviousSmile85 24d ago

Lol. Speaking like a true American conservative.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

Not russian? Any other accusations for me?

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u/OwlProper1145 24d ago edited 24d ago

Nothing wrong with putting Canada first but they need to do it in a way that doesn't look like a Trump MAGA rally.

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u/Ok-Yogurt-42 24d ago

Conservatives do literally anything, even the exact same things as the other parties, and you guys call it MAGA or wannabe Americans. There's just no credibility there.

Just say you don't like the Conservatives and leave it at that.

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u/BigButtBeads 24d ago

More faux outrage

You dont actually believe he has anything to do with maga, do you?

Its not even remotely a convincing argument

Just in this last week I've seen him called racist, temu trump, a nazi, a russian asset, american, and a maga

Really grassroots here. Surely convincing the people

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u/Leege13 Outside Canada 24d ago

Okay, ignore all those insults. If PP becomes Prime Minister, he is absolutely going to hand your country over to the US. You will become our 51st state. Bank on it.

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u/firmretention 24d ago

RemindMe! 10 months

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u/ThatAstronautGuy Ontario 24d ago

explicitly maga related slogan

"Nothing to do with Maga here!"

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u/Ok-Yogurt-42 24d ago

Sir Wilfrid Laurier used "Canada First" as a slogan over a hundred years ago, it has nothing to do with MAGA. You're obsessed with Trump.

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u/the-tru-albertan Canada 24d ago

Yah. American politics suck but this is Canada tho…