They changed the headline on this article. It originally read, “Polievre launches campaign with a pitch to heal, ‘a divided country’” which made me laugh because he’s spent so much time whipping up the white grievance that carried Trump to power in the US and trying desperately to ride the same wave of populist bullshit with the same message as Trump. When he’s railing about the, “woke” and “political correctness” that suggests that we can expect an all out assault of LGBTQ+ rights, brown people, books, and anything else they don’t like.
The irony that the guy still has Canada First signs up, a direct nod to MAGA, as has been all of his playbook since the Free Dumb Convoy.
Not only a direct nod to MAGA, but a slogan used in printed materials by the “Proud Boys” (another Canadian export that no one wanted)
Like every pro-Trump Canadian votes heavily conservative, which adds up, so they have to balance not getting primaried against being remotely viable in the actual election.
It will be interesting to see where this goes if they lose. Best case scenario, a new more anti-American conservatism arises. Worst case scenario they double down without collapsing and then eventually win a government by sheer force of FPTP.