The Daily Populous Friday March 21st, 2025 night edition
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blazelet on March 20th, 2025 at 19:26 UTC »

Some context for Americans - Pierre Poilievre is the conservative party leader in Canada and most likely to be Prime Minister if Conservatives win the upcoming election which will happen some time this year.

Canadian conservatives recently abandoned more moderate politics under O'Toole (the previous leader they replaced with Poilievre) and PP (reddit shorthand for Pierre Poilievre) has taken a harder right position. PP is engaging in "anti woke" politics and has ties to the Trump administration. He is largely following the American conservative playbook and policy proposals.

Justin Trudeau stepped down from the Prime Minister's office last week and has been replaced by Mark Carney. Trudeau was the liberal party leader and had been in the Prime Minister's seat for a decade. He was wildly unpopular (disapproval 74% in December) mainly because of cost of living in Canada has exploded on his watch and immigration levels had swelled to 300% above normal. He also didn't do election reforms he had committed to.

In January, before Trudeau left office, polls showed the conservatives ahead of the liberal party in Canada by 27%

Since Trudeau announced his resignation, Trump initiated his trade war and started the "51st state" rhetoric, and Canadian conservatives under PP have refused to distance from the Trump administration and style of politics, polling has shown a complete reversal with liberals under Carney now tied or slightly leading - a massive swing from a 27 point deficit just 2 months ago - source

This image is PP posing with Canada's far right, the "Freedom Convoy" are analogous to the tea party in the US. It was a group of truckers who sought to shut down commerce within Canada over the perceived injustice of needing to be vaccinated in order to travel across the US border during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Ok-Flatworm-9671 on March 20th, 2025 at 20:06 UTC »

The shelves were not empty far as I could tell in 2022.

Semi__Competent on March 20th, 2025 at 21:16 UTC »

Hate to break it to those numbskulls but us working drivers actually picked up their slack being productive and shelves were fine. Those guys were too busy throwing tantrums and circlejerking to notice how useless their foolery was.