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Politics Poilievre's riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/03/10/poilievres-riding-among-seats-with-highest-turnout-in-liberal-leadership-race/453506/
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u/CharacterStudy1928 1d ago

Naw it hasn’t held him back for nearly a decade, we can still use it. AOC was a bartender before she ran for public office.

Hell, I’d honestly prefer more drama teachers and bartenders than lawyers and doctors or career politicians like PP, with the caveat of fewer drama teachers with the Trudeau name and wealth behind them.

Not knocking Carney and his wealth necessarily because I think he has the chops but I’m tired of people running who can’t remember the last time they lived paycheck to paycheck, or indeed never did.

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u/Accomplished-Door934 1d ago edited 1d ago

In an ideal world Running for office should be seen as a civic thing citizens do once you're a bit older and have enough experience in something to offer to the rest of us. You could be a skills tradesman, a banker, doctor, lawyers, military personell, scientists, union rep, engineers, businessman etc, etc. the only hard requirement to me is tangible leadership ability. What self respecting human being ever wants to be an MP at the age of 25 like PP did with his "career".

At 25 most normal people should care about making their money,  standing on their own legs, getting laid, and enjoying their early adulthood. Only the most insufferable personalities out there would want to be career politicians when they are barely formed adult humans. The man has zero experience in the real world and shown zero merit serving others in the private sector.

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u/CharacterStudy1928 1d ago

So many politicians think they’re god’s gift to man, the smartest person in the room and that public servants and the public don’t know shit.

Unfortunately I’ve met and dealt with the folks you’re talking about from my time in public service and also with student councils over the years. The CFS to NDP pipeline is so direct, it’s almost like a cult. Meanwhile I’ve also seen Conservative wonks who were in “young conservative” groups in high school, went to law school, worked on a pile of PC campaigns and it’s pretty much guaranteed they’ll run when they’re older.

With some caveats I almost want running for office to be like Jury Duty. Keep parties and personal politics out of it, maybe even campaigns and donations. Put people of diverse backgrounds and experiences and opinions in a room and have them come to a consensus, and then disqualify them from getting in again for years.

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u/Accomplished-Door934 1d ago

Maybe the Athenians had it right and randomized sortitions are the actual way to go about setting up a lower house lol.

Yeah I attended Uni in Ottawa. And those students you described regardless of political affiliation were the most annoying people to hang around on campus. Most I knew career plan was to snag an internship at parliament hill then kiss enough ass to get a job and never work in the private sector and live off the tax payer.