Is MP Michelle Rempel-Garner (CPC-Calgary-Nosehill) back?You remember Michelle, don’t you? She was the Conservative immigration critic when all those illegals were merrily crossing the Quebec border into Canada from New York state. Neither the Trudeau government nor the RCMP was doing anything to curb the onslaught, except to introduce the migrants to welfare, free legal advice and tent cities. Later this accommodation was upgraded to hotel status in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. .Well, Rempel-Garner fiercely opposed this invasion and she was on social media and up in the House of Commons daily to eviscerate the Liberals for allowing an open border and refusing to even call an illegal immigrant “illegal.”The Liberals decided on a term even more odious than undocumented and described the immigration as “irregular.” . Rempel Garner speaks to the wokeRempel Garner speaks to the woke .But that firebrand Michelle seemed to disappear in the succeeding years and all she wanted to talk about was the LGBTQ+++ agenda and how miserable it was to be a woman in the Conservative caucus, which was apparently overborne with misogynistic, uncaring males. .And then she supported the oleaginous Patrick Brown for the CPC leadership. Now THIS was almost too much for some people. .Well, Michelle is back! Witness her performance this week in the House of Commons, railing against the price of bread and inflation, insisting she and her constituents had “had enough.”You remember that great scene from the 1975 film “Network,” when the Peter Finch character tells his audience to go to their windows, “open those windows and shout ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.’” .Well, it was that inspiring. .Then she went further, telling that government, “enough of the woke sh*t” before she realized she had just sworn in the House and quickly apologized, changing that to “woke stuff.” Bravo! .And lest you think this conversion is limited to MPs, Red Tories like Tasha Kheiriddin are now seeing Poilievre as the saviour of the party. She recently wrote how she'd “discovered the power of Poilievre” in a column that gushed over how the new Conservative leader was going to give the Trudeau Liberals hell. .This was the same woman who emphatically supported former Liberal Quebec Premier Jean Charest for the Conservative leadership and was an outspoken critic of Poilievre throughout the leadership campaign. She’s been arguing for years that Conservatives have to become more like Liberals to attract new voters. Poilievre is demonstrating the exact opposite, that when Conservatives act like conservatives they attract new voters who are sick of the old Liberal policies. .Kheiriddin also supported the use of the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy, praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford for backing Trudeau’s move with not just approval, but ecstasy. .Poilievre would not be the Official Opposition leader if he'd not decided to back the convoy and create a Conservative Party that was both conservative and inclusive of new immigrants, blue collar workers and young people. .This is why Poilievre needs to continue to talk about those policies that got him elected as party leader now that he is in charge. .And he needs to talk about all of them. .My old friend from CTV, Don Martin, made the observation this week he believes Poilievre is in the midst of a “slow pivot.” Interesting term. It means he isn’t talking about those policies that were most controversial and is instead only talking about matters that are difficult to dispute: like lowering your taxes. .But when is the last time Poilievre talked about privatizing the CBC? Well, I can’t give you a precise date, but I can tell you that issue has been absent from his policy vocabulary since he became leader of the CPC. .Time for some total recall.
Is MP Michelle Rempel-Garner (CPC-Calgary-Nosehill) back?You remember Michelle, don’t you? She was the Conservative immigration critic when all those illegals were merrily crossing the Quebec border into Canada from New York state. Neither the Trudeau government nor the RCMP was doing anything to curb the onslaught, except to introduce the migrants to welfare, free legal advice and tent cities. Later this accommodation was upgraded to hotel status in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. .Well, Rempel-Garner fiercely opposed this invasion and she was on social media and up in the House of Commons daily to eviscerate the Liberals for allowing an open border and refusing to even call an illegal immigrant “illegal.”The Liberals decided on a term even more odious than undocumented and described the immigration as “irregular.” . Rempel Garner speaks to the wokeRempel Garner speaks to the woke .But that firebrand Michelle seemed to disappear in the succeeding years and all she wanted to talk about was the LGBTQ+++ agenda and how miserable it was to be a woman in the Conservative caucus, which was apparently overborne with misogynistic, uncaring males. .And then she supported the oleaginous Patrick Brown for the CPC leadership. Now THIS was almost too much for some people. .Well, Michelle is back! Witness her performance this week in the House of Commons, railing against the price of bread and inflation, insisting she and her constituents had “had enough.”You remember that great scene from the 1975 film “Network,” when the Peter Finch character tells his audience to go to their windows, “open those windows and shout ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.’” .Well, it was that inspiring. .Then she went further, telling that government, “enough of the woke sh*t” before she realized she had just sworn in the House and quickly apologized, changing that to “woke stuff.” Bravo! .And lest you think this conversion is limited to MPs, Red Tories like Tasha Kheiriddin are now seeing Poilievre as the saviour of the party. She recently wrote how she'd “discovered the power of Poilievre” in a column that gushed over how the new Conservative leader was going to give the Trudeau Liberals hell. .This was the same woman who emphatically supported former Liberal Quebec Premier Jean Charest for the Conservative leadership and was an outspoken critic of Poilievre throughout the leadership campaign. She’s been arguing for years that Conservatives have to become more like Liberals to attract new voters. Poilievre is demonstrating the exact opposite, that when Conservatives act like conservatives they attract new voters who are sick of the old Liberal policies. .Kheiriddin also supported the use of the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy, praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford for backing Trudeau’s move with not just approval, but ecstasy. .Poilievre would not be the Official Opposition leader if he'd not decided to back the convoy and create a Conservative Party that was both conservative and inclusive of new immigrants, blue collar workers and young people. .This is why Poilievre needs to continue to talk about those policies that got him elected as party leader now that he is in charge. .And he needs to talk about all of them. .My old friend from CTV, Don Martin, made the observation this week he believes Poilievre is in the midst of a “slow pivot.” Interesting term. It means he isn’t talking about those policies that were most controversial and is instead only talking about matters that are difficult to dispute: like lowering your taxes. .But when is the last time Poilievre talked about privatizing the CBC? Well, I can’t give you a precise date, but I can tell you that issue has been absent from his policy vocabulary since he became leader of the CPC. .Time for some total recall.
