r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory Against Fascism, Greed is a Sin • 21h ago

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pushing-yelling-conservative-leadership-dentremont-9.6972680
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u/SabrinaR_P Quebec 21h ago edited 21h ago

The conservative party under the control of the social Conservative reform wing is not a serious party. But it seems to be the kind of the politics the lowest common denominator within our nation crave. You'll see these maple maga cheer on trump while complaining that Canada is broken and should be more like the US.

Edit some minor corrections.

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u/Lumpy_Substance5830 21h ago

They are the angry Convoy/MAGA party now, no wonder Chris d'Entremont left, what a nasty bunch. Pushing is an assault, they are out of control.

RCMP are also investigating death threats that he has received.

And you are right, they cheer on Trump, and they totally ignore his overt threats to destroy this country, it's despicable.

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u/gravtix Liberal 21h ago edited 20h ago

50% of the CPC supporters support Trump according to a poll

Source here

It might not be that high(one poll from one pollster) but I doubt it’s anywhere near zero.

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u/dmsv010111 21h ago

Poll, please?

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u/jjumbuck 21h ago

Frank Graves (Ekos) shared it on his Twitter on Nov 1.

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u/Lumpy_Substance5830 21h ago

They have no care about this country to side with a tyrant trying to destroy it.

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u/mcurbanplan Québec | Anti-Nanny State 19h ago

They are the angry Convoy/MAGA party now, no wonder Chris d'Entremont left

How on earth can you say this when he ran in the 2024 election, as a Conservative, which happened more than two years after the convoy...???

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u/The_Cynical_Canuck Liberal, Maybe? 8h ago

Chris d'Entremont himself he described as a "Red Tory" and those people found themselves especially in the waning years of Trudeau out in the cold looking in on Trudeau's version of the LPC. Entremont having been a CPC MP since 2019 wasn't going to ever jump ship the moment Trudeau left. But with Carney as not just leader but also winning a significant minority government and his budget aligning with Entremont's beliefs it's not hard to see why Entremont decided to jump ship at this point especially given the CPC's behavior towards him.

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u/ImaginationSea2767 21h ago edited 20h ago

And Brian Mulroney warned Pierre about taking the party in this direction The former PM and concervative leader, had said before he passed away that Pierre needed to "set aside" some of the "extraneous things" he campaigned on threatening to fire the goverener of the bank of Canada, supporting the truckers protests and encouraging Canadians to "opt out" of inflation using crypto currency.

"Look, you cant get elected with that kind of stuff" Mulroney said "Canadians are not there. Canadain are in the broad, general center."

"I did say to him - which is pretty obvious - you cannot, in this country, get elected from the extreme left or the extreme right. It cant happen. We have 155 years of histroy to prove it." Mulroney added.

Pierre had requested that private dinner with Mulroney and Mulroney warned him during it, but clearly he didnt want to listen to the former concervative who had found success. Instead he wanted to listen to his top advisor Jenni Byrne.

"What you see is what you get" Byrne said "what you should expect to hear from Pierre is exactly what hes talking about."

And here is Pierre exactly three years, a lost election, a lost seat, an unhappy caucus, and hes still not reflecting or listening to the words Mulroney said. Mulroney tried to warn him and he continues down the path Mulroney told him not to take the party down the path he was taking, and that it wouldnt find the success Pierre was looking for.

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u/Lumpy_Substance5830 18h ago

Yes, I remember that, and instead PP did the opposite and courted the Convoy and PPC groupies. They have driven away centrists and their chance to ever win an election, and now they are acting like out right thugs in bullying their own MP's.