{"id":10854,"date":"2022-09-14T05:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2022-09-14T01:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:08:54","slug":"roundup-poilievre-plays-victim-around-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2022\/09\/14\/roundup-poilievre-plays-victim-around-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Poilievre plays victim around the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re in the first week of Pierre Poilievre\u2019s leadership, and he\u2019s already sticking to his antagonistic playbook. He announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/poilievre-commons-leadership-team-1.6581317\">leadership team<\/a> first thing in the morning, with two deputies\u2014Melissa Lantsman (a Jewish lesbian) and Tim Uppal (a Sikh) in order to inoculate himself against the usual cries that the party is racist and bigoted. A short while later, Quebec MP Alain Rayes announced he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/2022\/09\/13\/pierre-poilievre-names-melissa-lantsman-and-tim-uppal-as-conservatives-deputy-leaders.html\">leaving caucus<\/a> and going to sit as an independent, because he didn\u2019t like the direction Poilievre was going. (Cue everyone insisting that the party has \u201cnever been more united,\u201d which is what they all say just before and after such an exit).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doesn\u2019t two deputy leaders seem\u2026inflationary? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HK3PZeVr6d\">https:\/\/t.co\/HK3PZeVr6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_dale\/status\/1569711106784108546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward a couple of hours, and the federal government has announced their assistance package for low-income people dealing the effects of high inflation, and Poilievre calls a press conference to react. And the spectacle begins. David Akin, one of the reporters present, takes offence that Poilievre insists he won\u2019t take questions (and he hasn\u2019t since he was made leader), and starts shouting questions at him. And what does Poilievre do? Call Akin a \u201cLiberal heckler\u201d (because the pool camera can\u2019t see Akin as he\u2019s behind it), and a few hours later, sends out a fundraising appeal to his base that plays victim, that the media is out to get him, and that they\u2019re all protecting Trudeau, and that you need to send him money to take on both Trudeau <em>and<\/em> the media. It\u2019s gross, it undermines institutions, it undermines democracy, but he doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s his game. And most of the media in this country have no idea how to react to it, and it\u2019s going to be a real problem going forward.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/glen_mcgregor\/status\/1569903207555497985<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgurney\/status\/1569872613228400642<\/p>\n<p>As for the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-inflation-measures-announced-1.6581289\">assistance package<\/a> (dental care for low-income children under 12, enhanced rent support for low-income people, doubling the existing GST tax credit, which again, targets low-income households\u2014and yes, the NDP are loudly taking credit for all of it), there are some good analysis threads from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindsayTedds\/status\/1569770945895895042\">Lindsay Tedds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferRobson8\/status\/1569882916410511360\">Jennifer Robson<\/a>, and because these are targeted at the low end, they\u2019re really unlikely to drive inflation, unlike say the cheques certain provinces are sending out to everyone, whether they need them or not. And Poilievre\u2019s insistence that this will make things worse because they increase the deficit (the deficit, if there will even be one this year, isn\u2019t driving inflation\u2014global factors are), and then demands that the government not raise taxes. The only taxes going up is the luxury tax on boats, private planes, and luxury cars. The carbon price is not a tax, and rebates more to lower-income households than they spend. CPP and EI premiums are not taxes. Higher taxes actually fight inflation, lowering them makes it worse. The absolute economic illiteracy should be mind-numbing, until you realises that he gets his information from crypto-bros on YouTube, which tells you pretty much everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindsayTedds\/status\/1569770945895895042<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is an enhancement to the GST credit likely to be inflationary? <br \/>First Q (ht <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinmilligan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kevinmilligan<\/a>) is it big enough, proportional to nominal GDP, that this could sway things? Here's annualized change to nominal GDP forecast for Canada from the OECD. Yes, it's a forecast. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vp1jhecW12\">pic.twitter.com\/Vp1jhecW12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Dr. J Robson (@JenniferRobson8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferRobson8\/status\/1569882916410511360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine Dispatch, Day 202:<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops are not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ukraine-invasion-day-202-1.6580833\">retreating<\/a> from positions in the northeast of the country, they are also retreating in the south, and heading toward positions in Crimea. As these towns and cities are liberated, authorities are moving in to document war crimes against civilians. Of course, shelling does continue around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and Russians are still hitting Kharkiv, even though they have been repelled from the area, which is being taken as a sign of desperation. Analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/rapid-loss-of-territory-in-ukraine-reveals-a-spent-russian-military-analysts\">believe<\/a> this rapid retreat is the sign of a spent Russian military, their approach unsustainable,<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkHertling\/status\/1569704142167506944<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Good reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/queen-funeral-national-holiday-or-not-1.6580582\">announced<\/a> a federal holiday on Monday for the Queen\u2019s funeral\u2014but it\u2019s really only a suggestion, and most provinces aren\u2019t playing along.<\/li>\n<li>Trudeau said it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2022\/09\/13\/trudeau-says-unacceptable-that-new-brunswick-hospital-turned-away-rape-victim\/\">unacceptable<\/a>\u201d that a woman in Fredericton was not able to get a forensic exam after being raped because there weren\u2019t enough trained staff.<\/li>\n<li>Harjit Sajjan says the federal government will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2022\/09\/13\/canada-to-match-individual-donations-for-pakistan-floods-provide-25m-in-aid-2\/\">match donations<\/a> to the Humanitarian Coalition dealing with the massive floods in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>Patty Hajdu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2022\/09\/13\/indigenous-services-minister-attends-funeral-at-site-of-mass-killing-in-saskatchewan\/\">attended funerals<\/a> at the James Smith Cree First Nation yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>It turns out that contentious call between the RMCP Commissioner and the Nova Scotia leadership was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/brenda-lucki-conference-call-recording-brian-brennan-rcmp-1.6581358\">recorded<\/a>\u2014and then deleted. Because of course it was.<\/li>\n<li>Hockey Canada says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2022\/09\/13\/hockey-canada-told-ottawa-of-its-national-equity-fund-in-2019-2\/\">they told<\/a> the minister\u2019s office of their National Equity Fund to pay out settlements in 2019, but the minister at the time says she never saw it.<\/li>\n<li>Heather Scoffield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/political-opinion\/2022\/09\/13\/justin-trudeau-and-pierre-poilievre-both-have-big-plans-to-tackle-affordability-canadians-are-stuck-between-them.html\">remarks<\/a> on the vastly different visions around inflation that Trudeau and Poilievre are building, and hopes the competition leads to solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Colin Horgan <a href=\"https:\/\/theline.substack.com\/p\/colin-horgan-the-new-cpc-leader-speaks\">points out<\/a> Poilievre\u2019s construction of a meta-narrative around societal decline, and how that poison encourages people to try and push the tipping point.<\/li>\n<li>Colby Cosh <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/colby-cosh-vampires-prophets-and-conquerors-king-charless-surprisingly-diverse-ancestry\">meanders<\/a> through royal genealogy, and points out that Camilla does have Canadian ancestors\u2014a pre-Confederation prime minister at that.<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"https:\/\/looniepolitics.com\/for-poilievre-and-his-supporters-being-punitive-is-the-point\/\">column<\/a> points out that Poilievre threatening to fire people he actually can\u2019t is the point of his appeal\u2014his followers are looking to punish people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Odds and ends:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BBC News: Canada's Gov. 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