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Pierre Poilièvre

WATCH: Tory Defends $90,000 Cheque

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Politics

A Tory MP says Harper’s chief of staff was just protecting taxpayers when he wrote embattled Sen. Mike Duffy a personal cheque for $90,000. Pierr...

WATCH: Tory MP Disses 'Oil Profiteer' Al Gore

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada Business

The war of words between former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and Canada’s Conservative government accelerated again on Friday when a prominent Conser...

The Worst Thing You Can Call a Union Leader? A Boss

Yves Engler | Posted 05.02.2013 | Canada Politics
Yves Engler

Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term "union boss"? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Strangely, one of the main reasons workers seek to unionize is to protect themselves from the arbitrary power of bosses.

Mr. Poilièvre, the End Does Not Justify the Means

Celine Hervieux-Payette | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Politics
Celine Hervieux-Payette

Dear Mr. Poilièvre: Everyone knows how little empathy the government, including yourself, has towards unions. In reality, Bill C-377 is your way of attacking a workers freedom of association. As a Senator, I refuse to take advice from someone who is against a firearms registry but is in favour of creating a registry of union data.

WATCH: MP Defends 'Root Causes' Quip, Slams 'Pseudo-Intellectuals'

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Politics

Pierre Poilievre isn’t backing down from his comments about the “root cause” of terrorism, no matter how many “Liberal pseudo-intellectuals”...

The Week In Review: HuffPost Bloggers Bravely Commit Sociology

Marni Soupcoff | Posted 04.28.2013 | Canada
Marni Soupcoff

This week, the debate raged on over the "root causes" of terrorism. On CBC's Power & Politics, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre took a literalist approach, declaring the root causes of terrorism to be terrorists. On HuffPost, the analysis ran a little deeper, with many suggested causes, including oppressive foreign policy. "The root cause [of terrorism] is only depravity," wrote one blogger, Lauryn Oates. "The line between seeking to understand this depravity, and seeking to justify it, is fine and must be tread upon with care." Whatever one's perspective, that's advice worth heeding.

'The Root Cause Of Terrorism Is Terrorists'

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.26.2013 | Canada Politics

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has apparently taken the memo from his boss not to “commit sociology” or think too hard about what causes terrori...

Tories Attack Rand Formula to Silence Workers

Sid Ryan | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada Politics
Sid Ryan

The thrust of this Conservative campaign is to undermine union funding and silence workers' collective voice. In every case, they erect flimsy straw targets to disguise their agenda and the same is true of their attack on the Rand Formula -- the funding model for unions and a cornerstone of labour relations in Canada.

How Canucks Avoided the Fiscal Cliff

Pierre Poilievre | Posted 02.27.2013 | Canada Business
Pierre Poilievre

In a few days the "fiscal cliff" deadline will arrive and potentially bring massive automatic spending cuts and tax increases to the U.S. Even if Congress and the President agree to avoid the cliff, the next crisis awaits. It has long been said that when the U.S. sneezes, Canada catches a cold. So why have these debt-related ailments in the U.S. not afflicted the Canadian government? The answer is that Canada has been practicing what the U.S. always preached. That is why we Canucks are not jumping off cliffs or smashing into ceilings.

Not Making Friends In Europe?

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.07.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - It's unclear whether Stephen Harper made any European friends during his visit this week. It's a safe bet, however, that his Conservative MPs...

Althia Raj

Shriners Donation Addressed To Conservative Party?

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada Politics

An elderly Quebec man was shocked to find out he was expected to send his Shriners donation to the Conservative Party of Canada. Lorenzo Sirois, w...

Tories Plan To Party Like It's 1812

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The public's knowledge of the War of 1812 might be a bit sketchy, but Canadians might not easily forget who's banging the drum for the bicent...

Stephen Harper's Royal History Lesson

Marko Sijan | Posted 11.06.2011 | Canada
Marko Sijan

By digging deeply into our royal roots, we wouldn't achieve the "renewed patriotism" Harper, Poilievre and his other Tory cronies covet. Instead, an honest "renewal of historic memory" would expose the truth that modern Canada, like British North America, is a military power that drives civilization to collapse.