Amateur political analysis

Vincent J. Curtis

10 July 23

RE: Poilievre and the CPC can’t win culture wars.  Op-ed by Craig Wallace.  The Hamilton Spectator 10 July 23.

Craig Wallace falls out of bed, gets an idea, and the Spectator publishes whatever incoherent rubbish he submits.  The other day, Wallace fell on his head, and decided to write a piece giving Pierre Poilievre advice on how to get elected; and the Spec ran it.  The gist of the piece was that Canada was center-left politically, and therefore Poilievre should stop running on a social conservative platform.

I can understand that progressives fear the political success of a social conservative; we’re seeing that in Alberta, where Danielle Smith won re-election.  They fear all their policies being repudiated, and once the trace is broken Humpty-Dumpty can never be put back together again.

Wallace misses two points.  Poilievre speaks weekly to hundreds, even thousands, of people at a time who want to hear his message.  If his message wasn’t resonating with the voters, he’d know it.

The second point is that Canada needs a dose of social conservativism.  The trans agenda has gotten out-of-control crazy.  When the gays can expose themselves in a Pride Parade to children and get away with it, something’s wrong.  When over-exuberant gays can chant “we’re coming for your children!” something’s got to change, and social conservativism is the direction in which things have to change.

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