The Canadian Press reports that Pierre Poilievre is selling conspiracy theories:
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments.
It is, some experts suggest, another sign that some conspiracy theories are moving from the fringes of the internet to mainstream thinking, as people's distrust of government grows.
In speeches to Conservative supporters across Canada, Poilievre has promised that none of his ministers will attend the international organization's conferences, including the annual meeting typically held in Davos, Switzerland.
"It's far past time we rejected the globalist Davos elites and bring home the common sense of the common people," said a Saturday fundraising email.
The Conservative party also recently sent out mailers with a poll asking people to tell Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who they think the prime minister should stand with: working Canadians or the World Economic Forum.
The wording implies Trudeau's cabinet is beholden to the latter.
The nutbars have moved into the mainstream:
Duane Bratt, political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said some people have long embraced conspiracies, but now they have moved into mainstream politics.
"The big shift that we have seen is that it is now being promoted by someone who could be prime minister," said Bratt.
Poilievre peddled the WEF control claims during the Conservative leadership race in 2022, and it has emerged again as a regular talking point following the federal byelection in southern Manitoba, said Bratt.
In that contest in Portage-Lisgar, the Conservatives were looking to beat back a growing challenge from the People's Party of Canada.
Maxime Bernier, the leader of that party who has long accused the WEF of having a globalist agenda, ran in the byelection. The Conservatives attacked him for having attended the Davos summit when he was Harper's foreign affairs minister in 2008. Bratt said Poilievre's embrace of conspiracy theories could be because he's attempting to steal back votes from the PPC.
Poilievre was the man who suggested that Bitcoin was the way of the future. His vision wasn't very good when he wore glasses. It's even worse since he took them off.
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I’ll lay fiver down that bets Harper wouldn’t miss Davos and a chance to mingle his elitist pals.
Hypocrisy is rampant among Conservatives these days, zoombats.
What? Claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments have been debunked? Has anyone told the WEF?
World Economic Forum
Our Mission
The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
What's amazing is today's topsy-turvy world in which conservatives claim to oppose the agenda of WEF plutocrats, while liberals defend it. It wasn't so long ago that liberals were criticizing Harper's keynote speech in Davos. Weird.
Every vote secured on the extreme right via this WEF nonsense and delivering coffee to miscreant convoy terrorists chases away 10 mushy-middle swing voters.
The G & M has an excellent piece about Lil'PP the class tourist who forgot to read the guidebook.
The dippers and Libs will have endless clips of Lil'PP waxing about Sudbury waitresses earning $60k and dissing half the population who can't afford his lifestyle and live in places he calls shacks.
The Nat. Post and their USA-owners and the rest of our comprimised media have a big challenge: making Lil'PP into anodyne Stephen Harper.
The world has been turned on its pole, Cap.
Poilievre's problem is that no one believes he will change, PoV.
Relying on intuition seems to fit the bill, jrk. There is a place for intuition. But as a strategy to guide one's life, not a good choice.
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