Pierre Poilievre

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That's something Cons should consider.

Don't get me wrong, that the Cons held onto so many seats, and even gained when NDP people left to vote FOR them, says a LOT (about the Cons and NDP overall).

But Skippy P is going to be a continuing issue.

The fact he was SO self centered that the guy whose riding he was 'offered' was just SIX MONTHS from getting his pension, yet PP's hold to power was more important.

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You know, just in case the resident blueball lovers cry "fake news".

This essay was published in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Poilievre

"In 1999, as a second-year student, Poilievre submitted an essay to Magna International's "As prime minister, I Would..." essay contest. His essay, "Building Canada Through Freedom", focused on individual freedom and, among other things, argued for a two-term limit for members of Parliament. As a finalist, Poilievre won $10,000 and a four-month internship at Magna, with the essay published in the book that collected the essays, @Stake — "As Prime Minister, I Would..."[10][23][24]"


I WILL add that I included the paragraph above about taking his case to the House, because I actually LIKE the idea. I also like his suggestions for the Senate. Now, granted, this was years ago for him and obviously he's changed a LOT of his tune on almost everything (I mean, that happens when you go from idealistic 20 to reality bidden post-grad, married and a father).
 
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Poilievre made significant gains this election against Trudeau/Carney/Singh/May/Trump. Let’s see what happens in a year when the Trump thing winds down and we (Canadians as a whole) get to see where Carney goes with things.
 
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That's something Cons should consider.

Don't get me wrong, that the Cons held onto so many seats, and even gained when NDP people left to vote FOR them, says a LOT (about the Cons and NDP overall).

But Skippy P is going to be a continuing issue.

The fact he was SO self centered that the guy whose riding he was 'offered' was just SIX MONTHS from getting his pension, yet PP's hold to power was more important.

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Building Canada Through Freedom Essay Pierre Poilievre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Essay submitted to Magna International's As Prime Minister, I Would... by Pierre Marcel Poilievre, titled Building Canada Through Freedom, focused on the...
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You know, just in case the resident blueball lovers cry "fake news".

This essay was published in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Poilievre

"In 1999, as a second-year student, Poilievre submitted an essay to Magna International's "As prime minister, I Would..." essay contest. His essay, "Building Canada Through Freedom", focused on individual freedom and, among other things, argued for a two-term limit for members of Parliament. As a finalist, Poilievre won $10,000 and a four-month internship at Magna, with the essay published in the book that collected the essays, @Stake — "As Prime Minister, I Would..."[10][23][24]"


I WILL add that I included the paragraph above about taking his case to the House, because I actually LIKE the idea. I also like his suggestions for the Senate. Now, granted, this was years ago for him and obviously he's changed a LOT of his tune on almost everything (I mean, that happens when you go from idealistic 20 to reality bidden post-grad, married and a father).
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Yup if only PP was a liberal .
 
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Yep, they used the rules as currently written to beat Poilievre. I assume you'd prefer it if only Conservative candidates were permitted to run at all (or at least to win), but that's not going to happen, so I suggest you throw yourself on the floor, kick your feet, and wail "It's not FAIR!"
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Do you know why they did it?

It’s a protest, against Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, from four elections ago, back in 2015. Did they do this to the Liberal candidate literally right next door in the next riding in the same city? Probably on the same bus route overlapping in some cases? Nope. Isn’t that curious?

Guess who was & wasn’t forming government since 2015. Meh, whatever. It happened & it’s done now.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Yep, they used the rules as currently written to beat Poilievre. I assume you'd prefer it if only Conservative candidates were permitted to run at all (or at least to win), but that's not going to happen, so I suggest you throw yourself on the floor, kick your feet, and wail "It's not FAIR!"
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Except that 87 or 88 of these candidates have the same financial backer.
 
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Ron in Regina said:
Do you know why they did it?

It’s a protest, against Justin Trudeau’s broken promises, from four elections ago, back in 2015. Did they do this to the Liberal candidate literally right next door in the next riding in the same city? Probably on the same bus route overlapping in some cases? Nope. Isn’t that curious?

Guess who was & wasn’t forming government since 2015. Meh, whatever. It happened & it’s done now.
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OK, so they got in their performative OUTRAGE, and Carny is the PM.

Everybody's happy.
 
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This’ll learn those Liberals & their broken promises from four elections back, all with Liberal governments. This’ll put the fear of God into Carney & Trudeau both, so they never ever do that again…
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This’ll learn those Liberals & their broken promises from four elections back, all with Liberal governments. This’ll put the fear of God into Carney & Trudeau both, so they never ever do that again…
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Longest ballot committee planning 200-name ballot for Poilievre byelection
Long-running election protest stems from broken Trudeau promise to introduce election reform, do away with 'first-past-the-post' elections

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published May 05, 2025 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 2 minute read

OTTAWA — If you thought Carleton’s election ballot was long, you haven’t seen nothing yet.


That was the message Monday from the Longest Ballot Committee, which plans to once again unleash their long-running election reform protest on the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre hopes to win back a seat in the House of Commons — this time with a record-smashing 200-name ballot.

“2015 was supposed to be the last election by first-past-the-post, and of course that promise fell through” said committee spokesperson Donovan Eckstrom, referring to the contentious polling system that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned to do away with.

“It gets the conversation going — people say, ‘Why is this ballot so big?’ and then they look it up and say ‘Oh, that’s interesting’ — everybody smiles, and nobody gets upset.”

Eckstrom has run in numerous elections, both as an independent as part of longest ballot and for the Rhinoceros Party.


Last week, re-elected Conservative MP Damien Kurek offered to step aside to let Poilievre run after the Tory leader lost his seat in the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton on election night to Liberal challenger Bruce Fanjoy.

Battle River-Crowfoot is a rural riding in east-central Alberta and is among the country’s safest Conservative seats. The PMO has yet to announce a date for that byelection.

While the committee planned to also run candidates in Prime MInister’s Mark Carney’s riding, his installation as Nepean’s Liberal candidate came too late to organize a protest there.

The committee’s work in Carleton produced a nearly metre-long ballot, listing 91 candidates — matching the record-breaking ballot in the Sept. 2024 federal byelection in LaSalle—Emard—Verdun.

That topped the previous record of 84 candidates for the June 2024 byelection in Toronto-St. Paul’s.


Responding to criticism and accusations of electoral interference after the committee chose to take action in Carleton, Eckstrom noted that while most of the anger came from Conservatives, their usual critics rank among Trudeau-supporting Liberals.

“Leading up to that point, it was the Liberals who thought the long ballot was a conniving scheme lead by Pierre Poilievre and the Koch brothers to take out (newly-elected Carleton MP) Bruce Fanjoy,” he said.

Eckstrom said that he suspects if bills like C-65 — an election reform bill that died on the order paper when Parliament was prorogued — gets reintroduced, the protest could be legislated out of existence.

“So instead of fixing it, they’re going to make it harder for regular people to run,” he said, adding that making their campaign illegal instead of fixing a broken electoral system is peak Canada.

“It’s like if my roof has a small leak, so let’s just tear down my house to rebuild it. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but that’s government for you.”

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“2015 was supposed to be the last election by first-past-the-post, and of course that promise fell through” said committee spokesperson Donovan Eckstrom, referring to the contentious polling system that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned to do away with.
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Crazy Justin-ification eh?
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In the 2025 federal election, the Longest Ballot Committee targeted the Carleton riding in the Ottawa area, where Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was running but not the neighbouring riding that Liberal Mark Carney was running in in. Poilievre would end up losing his riding, with the group declaring victory.
 
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