9月保守党党魁竞选活动进展: Pierre Poilievre 当选

Smoky and Sweet: What you may have missed in the Conservative leadership race this week​

Between the Liberals’ latest environmental plan to reduce emissions and the war still raging in Ukraine, some parts of the CPC race aren’t getting much attention

Author of the article: Christopher Nardi
Publishing date: Apr 02, 2022 • 1 day ago • 4 minute read • Join the conversation
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre exhales smoke from a shisha before explaining that he is “not going to force anybody to use a particular type of cryptocurrency.”


Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre exhales smoke from a shisha before explaining that he is “not going to force anybody to use a particular type of cryptocurrency.” PHOTO BY TAHINIS MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE/YOUTUBE

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OTTAWA – Nearly two months since Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole resigned, the party’s third leadership race in under five years is well underway.


But between the signing of a federal childcare deal with Ontario, the Liberals’ latest environmental plan to reduce emissions and the war still raging in Ukraine, some parts of the CPC race aren’t getting much attention.

The National Post brings you four things that happened in the Conservative leadership race this week that you may have missed.

A “troll” messed with Charest campaign with fake donation promises​


Wednesday afternoon, Conservative member and former O’Toole staffer Melanie Paradis posted a warning on Twitter: “⚠️CPC member data has been stolen ⚠️.” In her posts, she described receiving an email from a leadership campaign thanking her for a $120 donation pledge… that she never made.

Ultimately, a spokesperson from Jean Charest’s campaign says someone “trolled” their campaign by using an old Conservative membership data set to create hundreds of fake donation pledges in other people’s names on their website. They also used a fake location to hide their digital tracks, so the fake pledges seemed to originate from Ukraine.



Charest spokesperson Laurence Toth said they have no idea who was behind it nor how they obtained the data or if they were ever allowed to have it, but the issue was reported to Conservative leadership officials for review.

“Some ill-intent individual went on our website, and filled out forms with names, emails and telephone numbers that exist as part of what we believe is an old membership list,” Toth said. “There was no fraud, there was no conspiracy, it’s not Russians trying to destabilise Canadian democracy. It’s just someone who tried to troll us.”

Poilievre smokes shisha and talks bitcoin​


It was cryptocurrency week for leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre, who promised to make Canada the “Blockchain capital of the world” and “unleash” the power of the likes of Bitcoin and Etherium if elected prime minister.

As part of that announcement, Poilievre filmed a sit-down discussion with Ali Hamam, a Bitcoin advocate and owner of Tahini’s Mediterranean Cuisine in London, Ont. The resulting video was posted on YouTube titled “Shisha and Bitcoin with Pierre Poilievre.”

The video begins with a shoeless Poilievre, sitting on an armchair near Hamam and decked in a Tahini’s t-shirt with a large Bitcoin logo, taking a long drag from a shisha before launching into a rant against Bank of Canada economists.

“You got all these big-shot experts, so called economists and central bankers who claim that money printing doesn’t cause inflation. And I’m seeing this shawarma shop owner from London, Ontario who says no, of course it causes inflation,” Poilievre says.

“I’m not going to force anybody to use a particular type of cryptocurrency and as prime minister, I’m simply going to give you the freedom to choose. If you believe that Bitcoin is the best tool for you to transact, as Ali has decided, then you can do that,” he later added. “As long as you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes.”

Patrick Brown campaigns behind closed doors​


While most leadership candidates publicize most of their gatherings and invite as many potential Conservative members as possible, Patrick Brown opted for a more subtle strategy this week by first hosting gatherings and then telling people about them.

The first stop that caught reporters’ attention was an event in Montreal at the beginning of the week that went unheralded to media and the larger public. It was only via a Tweet after the event that reporters knew that Brown had hammered his message opposing Quebec’s Bill 21 to members of the Tamil community.

On Friday, Brown announced he was in British Columbia but did not post about any public events.

“Mr. Brown is focused on growing the Conservative party and is proud to have taken part in dozens of membership sales events across the country. This will remain his focus,” spokesperson Jeff Silverstein responded when asked by National Post why these events weren’t announced to media.

Two Sweet​


On Feb. 22, former Conservative MP David Sweet and six other party MPs or senators penned an open letter exhorting former Quebec Premier Jean Charest to run for CPC leadership.

“Canada needs you, Mr. Charest,” the letter reads, flaunting his “unflinching resilience”, “unifying leadership” and “second to none” reputation in international trade relations.

But Sweet’s possible love affair for Charest was short lived (he insists that the letter never “endorses” the Quebecer as a CPC leader) because another candidate stole his heart shortly after: independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber.

Sweet was the first Conservative caucus member to endorse Baber for party leadership and is now his campaign chairman. Sweet and Baber previously hosted anti-COVID-19 lockdown events together in 2021, about the same time the MP announced he would not run for re-election.

“I don’t regret it,” Sweet told National Post about signing the letter calling on Charest to run.

“I think having good high calibre people in the race is what’s needed. Roman was not in the race at that time. And when Roman called me and said that he was planning on running for leadership… I just saw him as a great team player, a great builder of community… and a courageous man,” Sweet added. “So I decided to throw him my support.”

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Smoky and Sweet: What you may have missed in the Conservative leadership race this week

Between the Liberals’ latest environmental plan to reduce emissions and the war still raging in Ukraine, some parts of the CPC race aren’t getting much attention
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小PP一副睡不醒的样子，哪里是做国家领导人的样子。

自由党跟NDP合伙了，五年内不会有问题。
 
小PP哪里睡不醒。 每天上窜下跳到处骂土豆
枫国冰都 说:
小PP一副睡不醒的样子，哪里是做国家领导人的样子。

自由党跟NDP合伙了，五年内不会有问题。
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保守党魁竞选第一次辩论，几个焦点：COVID 强制政策，卡车车队抗议活动，华为（Charest在华为的兼职问题）​

Conservative leadership candidates spar over COVID mandates, trucker convoy, Huawei​


CPC candidate pledges to end supply management​


Updated May 5, 2022 10:01 p.m. EDT
Published May 5, 2022 4:59 a.m. EDT

OTTAWA - Longtime Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest, Quebec's former premier, took turns attacking one another's political records Thursday in the first unofficial debate in the Tory leadership race.

Poilievre, who's campaigning on a promise to give more freedoms to Canadians and has been attracting crowds of thousands at rallies across the country, took aim at Charest throughout the event, where five out of the six candidates appeared on stage before a room of conservative faithful.

The Ottawa-area MP repeatedly called Charest a "Liberal" for having once led the Quebec Liberal party, as he has done since before the former premier officially entered the race.

"We reduced income taxes and the credit rating agency actually said that that's what allowed Quebecers to come through the great recession much better than anyone else," Charest said in defence of his record.

Poilievre responded that Charest raised several other taxes, including the gas tax and the sales tax, and left Quebec the most indebted province in all of Canada during his time as premier.

At one point, Poilievre repeatedly pressed Charest about past work with the telecom giant Huawei.

"He has never told us how much he got paid," he said. "This is a company whose software and hardware has been banned from the 5G networks of four of the Five Eyes countries because of allegations, in many cases proven, that they have used it for espionage."

Speaking to reporters afterward, Charest dismissed any suggestion that his past work with the company was a liabilityfor him in the race.He said it's not an issue that he hears about while campaigning, saying any mention of it is history. Charest said he considered the attacks on him to be compliment.

The debate, organized by the Canada Strong and Free Network political advocacy group, also featured heated exchanges between candidates about their levels of support for the truckers' convoy protest in Ottawa and for those fighting COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.

Charest, who is pitching himself as an experienced national leader who believes in a united Canada, earned boos from the crowd of hundreds by criticizing Poilievre for endorsing what he called illegal blockades.

Poilievre responded by saying "Mr. Charest learned about the trucker convoy on CBC like other liberals, and he misrepresented them." He added that Charest perpetuated cancel culture for saying in previous interviews that Poilievre's support of the protest means he should be disqualified.

Leslyn Lewis, the MP who placed third in the 2020 leadership race, also challenged Poilievre over his record on standing up for Canadians' freedoms throughout the pandemic. Many Conservatives opposed health measures such as vaccine and mask mandates over concerns that they infringe on personal choice.

As Poilievre tried arguing that he was one of the loudest voices, Lewis charged he was not.

"You did not speak up until it was convenient for you to speak up. You did not even go to the trucker protest," she said.

"You actually went and you took a picture in your neighbourhood at a local stop."

Lewis, who is promising to ban so-called sex-selective abortions, also challenged Poilievre over his stance on social conservative issues. She accused him of avoiding media questions about abortion in recent days after the draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked.

"He cannot just be a minister of finance if he wants to be a prime minister," she said.

Poilievre said earlier in the week that a government led by him wouldn't introduce or pass laws that restrict abortion.

As Charest, Poilievre and Lewis all took turns focusing on one another, Ontario MP Scott Aitchison said on stage that as Conservatives, "all we do is yell and scream at each other," and said that's an issue if the party wants to be competitive in the next election. However, there were heated exchanges throughout the entire debate.

"Here we are calling each other names. What Canadian is going to trust this lot? We've got to do better," said Aitchison.

He also added that: "Every time I hear a Conservative talking about some conspiracy theory ... there's another group of swing voters in the GTA that just are not going to come our way."

That comment prompted pushback from Lewis as well as Roman Baber, the independent MPP from Ontario who was booted from Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative caucus in 2021 over opposing a COVID-19 lockdown that was in place at the time.

Baber says many Canadians still cannot board a plane in the country because of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

"Canadians are witnessing the continuous erosion of our democracy and we should be mindful of this conversation instead of mocking them like the Prime Minister does," said Baber.

After the debate, Baber told reporters he was concerned about the divisive tone.

While the leadership contenders sparred on stage, most appeared collegial once the questions ended. Poilievre and Charest, however, studiously avoided shaking hands with each other on stage.

Candidates were also questioned on the party's past few election losses, former leader Erin O'Toole's attempts to move the party to the centre to grow support, and issues of national unity.

Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton, Ont., did not take part in Thursday's event. His campaign said he was focused on selling memberships to supporters before the June 3 deadline needed to vote in the Conservative leadership race.

Moderator Jamil Jivani, incoming president of the Canada Strong and Free Network, took aim at Brown's campaign tactics in his absence.

"Some Canadians are concerned that Mayor Brown is sowing division in our country. He has been criticized for manipulating diaspora politics to bolster his campaign," Jivani said, before inviting the candidates on stage to contrast their own approach to Canadians with diverse backgrounds.

"The bottom line is that Patrick Brown says one thing in one room and exactly the opposite in another room. And that is what he has done throughout this campaign," Poilievre said in response, pointing to a flip-flop on Brown's support for the carbon tax as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives.

An official with Brown's campaign told The Canadian Press his efforts to bring new Canadians into the party should be celebrated and not mocked.

Brown will be on stage next week when all six candidates take part in the first official debate in Edmonton.

The party is set to pick a new leader on Sept. 10.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 5, 2022.

www.ctvnews.ca

Conservative leadership candidates spar over COVID mandates, trucker convoy, Huawei

Longtime Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest, Quebec's former premier, took turns attacking one another's political records Thursday in the first unofficial debate in the Tory leadership race.
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Poilievre either misunderstands or doesn't care about Canada's economic reputation, Trudeau says of pledge to fire central banker​

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out swinging Thursday in response to Pierre Poilievre's pledge to fire the governor of the Bank of Canada if he became prime minister. Trudeau said that the perceived Conservative leadership frontrunner either misunderstands or doesn't care about how integral the independence of the central bank is to the country's economic stability and international reputation.
 
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