[dismalaf]

MAGA? It's funny how inundated Canada is with leftist propaganda. Poilievre is barely right of centre...

We had far more restrictive laws on immigration and the LGBT community in the days of the Chretien-Martin Liberal government for example...

[lupusreal]

The social policy Obama campaigned with in 2008 would get him called a fascist in 2024.

[boringg]

I'm not telling you any of my political preferences I'm pointing out how it will play out in the national campaign and how it has already roiled the polls. Canadians don't trust him to support the Canadian interests at least at the current moment - it's a big problem for him and the national conservatives.

[DiogenesKynikos]

Poilievre very consciously mimics Trump in slogans, style, etc. Just look at this picture and tell me it doesn't remind you of something: [0].

The question is whether Canadians want to elect someone who models himself after Trump at a time when Trump is threatening to end Canada's existence as a sovereign nation.

0. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2137961/poilievre-co...

[dismalaf]

It's Poilievre in front of Canadian flags... Every leader of every country stands in front of their country's flag...

I guess it would be jarring to Canadians, who have a current leader who called us a post-national state and said immigrants are more Canadian than people born in Canada...

[DiogenesKynikos]

"Canada First"

[dismalaf]

Literally the status quo for most of the history of democracy: putting your own country first...

The fact any Canadian thinks it's weird or anything like MAGA shows how far Canada has fallen...

[DiogenesKynikos]

It's a specific political slogan borrowed from Trump, who himself got it from 1930s-era isolationists / Nazi sympathizers.