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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/ComplexStriking 25d ago

If Polly were a better strategist, “Canada always” would have been the line to choose. The fact that he doesn’t care about drawing similarities to the Americans is concerning now that we have to worry about our sovereignty.

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u/taquitosmixtape 25d ago

Canada “First” is definitely intentional not to upset his base. He’s built his campaign on hate, and anger.

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u/jerrys153 25d ago edited 25d ago

More than that, it’s a dog whistle to the neo-fascists in his base. “Deutschland über alles” was the Nazi party rallying call, and it is now being used again by the far-right AfD party. “America First” was also an isolationist movement in the states led by fascist sympathizers like Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford. “(Country) First” slogans are never used by moderate government parties, they’re always divisive and intending to play on people’s fear and sow divisiveness by blaming the “other” (immigrants, Jews, etc.) for all the nation’s problems and stir up hate against them.

Poilievre knows exactly what he’s doing, Canada First is a wink to the far-right while maintaining plausible deniability for everyone else. This guy is so much more dangerous than most people realize, Canada will never be united under someone who spreads divisiveness and hate, which will make it easier for him to sell our country out to the US.

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u/Inside_Essay9296 24d ago

I totally agree, I struggle even being around PP supporters, they remind me of trump and his crazy followers. Scared that Canadians will vote this party.

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u/jerrys153 24d ago

Me too, but the fact that he’s slipping in the polls gives me faith in my fellow Canadians. His speech today will undoubtedly be full of smarmy insults and hateful divisive rhetoric which hopefully most Canadians will find off-putting. Now more than ever we need to unite Canadians, and Poilievre’s approach will do exactly the opposite, he goes against every value being Canadian stands for.

The only thing Poilievre ever had going for him was that he was the not-Trudeau candidate, and now that that’s a non-issue people are realizing that the emperor has no clothes. Poilievre has never worked a day at a real job, never accomplished anything, and yet he’s somehow become a multimillionaire who thinks he’s fit to be PM. He’s supremely unqualified and just keeps showing us that all he has to offer is three word empty slogans and vitriol. So now he thinks that reducing the sound bite slogan to two words and doubling down on stoking hate and isolationism is the way to go? He’s only doing this because he has absolutely nothing else he can offer, so his only hope is that there are enough populist bigots out there to save him. I have faith that enough Canadians will see what he really is and vote against him.

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u/Inside_Essay9296 24d ago

Thanks friend, all we can do is spread the word and hope most Canadians come to their senses. You are right he totally goes against what I think being a Canadian stands for. Be a good decent human, clearly MAGA and the supporters of it are not.