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.

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    1 year ago

    What really grosses me out is how much antisemitism is being churned out of the WEF conspiracies. If you are trying to present yourself as a mainstream option to voters, this is not something you want to be associated with. Peter MacKay called the social conservatives of the party a “stinking albatross,” but I find this alt-right faction of the party to be infinitely worse and unpalatable.

    It also signals that the alt-right branch of the CPC is turning into another tent-pole that the leader has to appeal to, lest they want to lose them to the PPC. Some might argue that the “Reform/Canadian Alliance” branch of the CPC already contained these people. I’m hesitant to agree simply because I think many of these people were non-voters, prior to the invention of the PPC. In many respects, this is a new group that is trying to hijack the political agenda of a mainstream party.

    Canadians ought to be wary of this, and I’m hopeful they see these people for what they are. However, I look to Europe and the surge of far-right parties and it fills me with dread that we could see the same here.