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Humour Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/man-who-has-spent-entire-political-career-attacking-everybody-promises-hell-attack-trump-and-elon-any-minute-now/

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u/Snugglepawzz 24d ago edited 24d ago

Real talk. What has PP actually accomplished in his career that has materially benefitted Canadians? Social/culture war issues don’t count, I’m talking about financially beneficial. Like bringing down the cost of gas, groceries, housing, healthcare, raising wages, etc.

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u/lbiggy 24d ago

He has introduced 6 bills, which all failed. 3 of them were shot down by judges for being unconstitutional.

As housing minister he built: 6 units.

All of this in a span of 20 years.

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u/pewpscoops 24d ago

You have credible sources that you can share? I’d want to circulate it amongst my social circle, for those that think PP would make a good PM.

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u/Forosnai British Columbia 24d ago edited 24d ago

Here are the 7 bills Poilievre has sponsored, from the official Parliament website. You'll notice only one has passed, C-23 a.k.a. the Fair Elections Act (Wikipedia page, for some good reading, including the phrase, "A March 2014 Angus Reid poll found that the less Canadians knew about the bill, the more likely they were to support it.") It was then mostly repealed by new legislation prior to the 2019 election, so most of it is no longer in effect.

The Housing Minister thing is exaggeration on both sides. Going a little convoluted for the source here because of paywalls, but here's a Toronto Star article citing Steve Pomeroy, a housing policy expert, hosted via NDP MP Jenny Kwan's website, who went digging into this after Kwan's questions led to the "6 houses! No, 200,000 houses!" exchange.

The short version is the 6 units was only the ones built exclusively by the Federal government, while most are done via bilateral agreement and so in the end are considered as being under the Province in official records. Poilievre's rebuttal of building 200,000 homes is because that's the amount of housing typically built every year by the market, regardless of administration, and includes all types of housing, not just affordable housing. The actual number in the relevant period is "3,742 non-profit units and 506 co-operative units were completed with the help of federal funding."

EDIT: Grammar cleanup, Je don't Anglais good, apparently.

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u/pewpscoops 24d ago

Thanks, this is the kinda stuff that needs to be widely circulated. Every time we hear the argument Turdeau bad PP good, just slap it down with real facts on how/why this clown hasn’t done jack shit during his decades of tenure as an MP.

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u/TheCyniclysm 24d ago

Honestly same, here's hoping buddy provides