Pierre Poilievre is courting voters by capitalizing on immigration fears in Quebec

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Pierre Poilievre is courting voters by capitalizing on immigration fears in Quebec
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives allied themselves with the Bloc Québécois to support fear-mongering rhetoric around immigration as they court francophone voters.
By Althia RajNational Columnist
Wed., May 17, 2023 timer4 min. read
updateArticle was updated 12 hrs ago

Be afraid. Be very afraid.



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That’s the message Le Journal de Montréal, Quebec’s popular tabloid, is trying to convey. Two weeks ago, it refuelled ongoing discussion over immigration in Quebec by splashing on its Saturday cover the image of a fleur-de-lis trapped.

“LE QUÉBÉC PRIS AU PIÈGE” screamed the headline, “Quebec trapped, in a Canada that wants 100 million habitants.” There was an eight-page spread about “Ottawa’s grand plan,” declaring “French forced to decline,” and “(Quebec’s) political influence condemned.”

The paper’s top columnists weighed in, with headlines such as: “Justin Trudeau is more cunning than we believed,” “They want to assimilate us,” “All this without any debate,” and “Two catastrophic scenarios.”

The sensationalist coverage — coming seemingly out of nowhere — got Quebecers talking, from university presidents to the folks at Tim Hortons.

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1. I wonder about the people in the burbs around Toronto feel about

Poilievre's immigration stance.

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2. He's nobody

His party does not have enough support to win a federal election, and even if they came close, they would not be able to find other parties willing to form government with them.
Poilievre himself is a dog whistle politician who has never worked a real job in his life. He was brought up under Harper, who had real difficulty finding French speaking Quebeckers to run for his party. Since the departure of Harper he's been blowing every Trump and Dog whistle he can find.
He does one thing in Quebec, then does the opposite in Alberta. The guy is so transparently hypocritical that most Canadian view him as nothing more than a bad joke.
He and his party are going nowhere, despite all the corporate right wing money behind them.

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3. They are ahead in the polls.