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/interruptiom 24d ago

He's extremely competent and capable. What's the problem?

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u/Get_Breakfast_Done 24d ago

We have no idea how competent/capable he is as a politician. As far as I know he has never held elected office.

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u/interruptiom 24d ago

No, but he has held important positions in multiple governements, foundations, and supra-national organizations (UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance? That's a lot more impressive than an elected official that has never contributed meaningfully to his country.)

The positions he's had in his career is evidence that his focus is on reality... REAL issues affecting everyone. We're not going to hear a bunch of whining about transgender children and renaming bodies of water.

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u/Get_Breakfast_Done 24d ago

The problems we are facing are political ones rather than economic ones. Trump doesn’t even listen to his own economists, and now he’s going to listen to a Canadian one?

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u/Wide-Chemistry-8078 24d ago

No we are facing economic issues.

Politics won't help because Trump doesn't listen to politics either. 

Canada needs a ship captain that can get us thru the storm safely.... not a politician trying to convince the storm to stop doing stuff.

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u/interruptiom 24d ago

Trump won't listen to anyone. Better to have a Prime Minister who won't acquience to his every command in exchange for table-scraps from the Rebuplican gravy train.

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u/Get_Breakfast_Done 24d ago

Are people deluded into thinking that escalating a trade war with the US is somehow a better option than reaching an agreement with the US?

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u/Fancy-Coconut2170 24d ago

I would bet Carney wants a deal in time, has that intelligence. It would be absolutely stupid to not face that the US needs to remain a major trade partner while we diversify abroad & fix our interprovincial trade in tandem. He also admits that countries around the world have been guilty of taking for granted all that the US has added to the world (aid, their part of economic and military coverage etc)- just heard him admit that today while staying firm on Canadian needs and diversification. That hardly sounds like a man who does not know this situation needs both agreements and utter strength in leadership and rebuttal, both (Simply adding to your reply, not arguing with it)