I received an email from Kevin O’Leary today. Not a personal email, but one sent to people he or someone else on Team Charest thinks might be supporters of Pierre Poilievre for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. O’Leary’s pitch was that while Poilievre is electable as leader, he is not electable as Prime Minister. His reasoning: Poilievre is too right wing --- not middle of the road enough --- to win a federal election. Does it occur to O’Leary that the people who will choose Poilievre as leader of the Party will also vote in a Federal election? And does he accept that, for each person who agrees enough with Poilievre to cast a vote in his favor in the current CPC leadership race, there are who knows how many more that don’t vote for CPC leader because they are not Party members, but who will support Poilievre for Prime Minister?
The Poilievre team has done a masterful marketing job. I say that as someone with a doctorate that was heavy on marketing theory and a business career that has been heavy on implementation of marketing principles. It would be a blue moon event for him not to win the CPC leadership race. Poilievre has positioned himself as the common man’s champion, in contra distinction to Trudeau who is positioned as the champion of the elite whoever they are. I think Poilievre can win a federal election as PM.
Did I tell any of this to O’Leary? No, but I did reply. My short reply included this link: https://www.weforum.org/people/jean-charest --- reflective of a situation that is enough to disqualify Charest from holding high public office in this country, in my opinion. The WEF, which would be better described as the WTF, embraces goals that are counter to what is good for Canadians. How Freeland can be a trustee of such an organization so detrimental to humanity and still be Deputy PM of Canada without being guilty of treason is beyond my intellectual reach. Charest, a past Liberal Premier of Quebec, appears to be a pea in the same pod as the smug and off-putting Freeland.
