A viral exchange between Canadian Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre and Castanet journalist Don Urquhart, in which the former casually parries left-wing questions while munching on an apple, has created quite a stir on social media this week.
“In terms of your strategy currently, you’re obviously taking the populist pathway,” the journalist said
Poilievre responded, “What does that mean?
“Well, appearing to peoples’ more emotional levels I would guess,” Urquhart said, to which Poilievre asked him to provide an example
“Certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently,” the journalist insisted.
Poilievre again asked the journalist for an example but could not get a concrete response.
“A lot of people would say that you’re simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book,” Urquhart claimed.
Pierre Poilievre casually smacks down a left wing journalist while munching on an apple. pic.twitter.com/FeAcjCncvw
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Poilievre again asked for clarification: “Which people would say that?”
“Well, I’m sure a great many Canadians,” came the response, to which Polievre again queried “Like who?”
“I don’t know who,” the journalist admitted.
Poilievre shot back, “Well you’re the one who asked the question. So you must know somebody?”
Urquhart again began to claim that the candidate was “taking a page out of the Donald Trump book.”
“What are you talking about? What page? Give me the page. You keep saying that,” Polievre said.
Urquhart again accused Poilievre of making rhetoric regarding the “left wing,” to which the candidate responded, “I don’t know what your question is.”
This is not Pierre’s first smack down of the left media, this one’s pretty epic too. pic.twitter.com/2P2oJyUzvJ
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“Then forget that, why should Canadians trust you with their vote?” Urquhart asked the apple-munching Poilievre.
“Common sense. Common sense for a change,” Poilievre answered. “We’re going to make common sense common in this country. We don’t have any common sense i the current government. The guy prints $600 billion and grows our money supply by 32% in three years, that’s growing the money eight times faster than the economy. No wonder we have the worst inflation in four decades.”
He continued, “I’m going to cap spending, and cut waste, so we can balance the budget and bring down inflation and interest rates. Do you want to be able to pay your mortgage again? Do you want to be able to afford rent? Then you have to vote for Pierre Poilievre because I am the only one with a common sense plan that will bring back the buying power of your paycheck.”
