"And in Poilievre’s case, a significant number of women appear to be picking up a signal—an incongruity they may not be able to explain rationally, but can feel intuitively." I take issue with this. I can explain why I don't like what Pollievre is offering quite rationally. I don't agree with his policies. I don't agree with targeting "woke ideology" in universities. I don't want a leader who has cozied up to the Convoy crowd and courted anti-vaccine, conspiracist theorists. I don't care about additional money in a TFSA for Canadian investments when our hostile neighbour to the south is threatening our sovereignty. I don't think the industrial carbon tax should be cancelled. And so on and so forth.
I hear & agree with you, but let's not forget this from 2022:
“analysis of 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos showed that they included a tag — hidden from viewers, but not from the videos’ publisher — used by a misogynistic online movement.”
I have said from the first time I watched him that I wouldn’t get into an elevator alone with him. I would let the doors close and wait for the next one. I absolutely don’t think that he would do anything, I would just be so uncomfortable trapped in a small space with him.
Yes!! Exactly! It's not the physical threat it's something else about him.
I'm American and have told my Canadian husband that PP was “creepy”. Then I saw what an absolute mysoginyst he is & how cozy he got with right wing fringe in Canada & spouting things that sound a lot like Project 2025 plans.
So, Canadian women, get out and vote & save democracy! Carney winning would definitely set the stage for more global resistance & cooperation.
He’s creepy and completely disingenuous. He is the antithesis of authenticity. I also completely disagree with Every. Single. Slogan. - that for him and the Cons passes for policy. He’s also a control freak - the way his entire campaign was designed to exclude/micro-manage every interaction with the Press is anti-democratic. PP is the 🍊pretender.
If PP or his type, walked in to a place I was having a beer, I would clock his predatory whereabouts at all times and never be on my own with him. Carney, on the other hand, could join our table for a meal and awesome conversation.
Sure, intuitively he gives off immediate mysoginist, creepy, controlling, insincere predator; but and also, he blatantly states his views often and loudly all the time about his views on women, their rights, their bodies, and “thier place”, is complicit in inciting angry mobs of incels to harass women and girls who he dislikes, and cavorts with anti anti-racist ideologically extreme christian nationalists who see women as subordinate. So yeah, no thanks. And yes, please trust the women on this one. He does not have humanity’s best interest at heart, only grievance. Sound familiar?
Always trust your instincts/intuition. It is rare that I have not and when I do it has always been a huge mistake. I do not trust PP, fake and trying too hard - it is so obvious. Seems to have a problem with women, also very insincere in my opinion. Mark Carney - not without flaws like all of us for sure but trustworthy, smart, steady and calm. Thank you for a great article.
From my mom, my wife, my aunts, my good female friends, my sons girlfriends - PP makes their skin crawl. The visceral and instant dislike and aversion to him is something I’m paying very close attention to. Me, He’s got the perfect slappable kind of face!
I "just know" his conversations with men are going to be VERY different when he'd talk about women... He feels like he's putting on a persona rather than simply being a person. I don't trust that presentation of self. 😠
I agree with this. The fact that he won't stop his cabinet from bringing forward anti-abortion debates tells me that a woman's body is up for debate. I am voting for my daughter's say over her body & her right to choose. The fact that he voted against feeding hungry students, dental coverage, and lowering pharmaceuticals such as insulin tells me that he doesnt care about our middle class/low income families. My gut tells me that he is dangerous for our democracy and country. FYI my intuition is the only reason why my child is alive, it will never steer me wrong and I will forever listen to it.
Everything you described is right out of the Heritage Foundation playbook Project 2025. Same things conservatives did in the US. Fortunately I don't think Canada is overflowing with Evangelical Christian Nationalists like has been done in the states.
I find myself hitting the mute button when his ads come on. Like nails on a chalkboard! The whole trump mimicking is also very offputting. Seeing what they are going through with his reign of terror is not something I wish to watch "maple-style".
Thanks for a well written article (even though my mind was made up before I read this!)
Women have always known to trust our instincts, especially when it comes to men. As we get older, our instincts become even more attuned.
This is a great article. I will say it's not just Poilievre, it's his wife too. When she started the bullying and firestorm of lies thrown at Trudeau, it was disturbing. Then during a meet and greet, she responded to an older women in such a condescending manner, I was disgusted. It reminded me of our southern neighbours' style of politics. So, it's just the whole package that I cannot tolerate.
Not only women have this intuition, And the intuition of women is powerful and essential. Thanks for this beautiful and timely reminder. As for the beer test, what? Oh crikes. Please, no. Can't I stick with my intuition? I don't even like beer.
Thanks for the support, everyone. I am totally sincere. These are wise words about tuition. Please keep up the fight for us all. I will, too. Blessings.
Yes. I only vote for people who are smarter than I am. I know who my Con candidate is (and was) she isn’t getting my vote. The Liberal candidate was asked by the PM to run, no doubt because of his background. I voted today.
Not exactly. The Prime Minister is not elected by all Canadians like a President. He (she) is elected to lead the Party on a ranked ballot. When there is a general election people vote for a candidate in their Riding. The leader of the party with the most seats is the Prime Minister, the party with the second most seats is the Leader of the Opposition.
As The great Maya Angelou said: "When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time...".
No amount of repackaging can erase more than a decade of voting just to oppose, rather than try to build-and the petty, mean-spirited, US-style disrespectful snark that is he introduced into the national political conversation. He lost me when he bought coffee and donuts for now-convicted occupier yahoos in Ottawa, and referred to the Prime minister of the day by his first name, and made up nasty nicknames for him, too .
You might not like the PM of the day, or his/her people or policies. But at minimum, show some respect for the office. That's the Canadian way. And he is far too US influenced to be effective as PM.
Quite right. His "US-style disrespectful snark" is all he delivers. He turns the House of Commons into a shit-slinging match; he lies, exaggerates, insults. I still cannot understand why the Speaker (the entire series of them) of the HofC has been reluctant to impose the rules of decorum to which the electorate are entitled in their members of Parliament.
You hit the nail on the head. It's not just his policies, it's him. Everything about him. With Trudeau, I always felt reassured and safe, even during COVID. I feel the same with Carney. With PP, it's not that I don't like his policies. I just don't trust him. It's visceral, and I don't usually have that kind of a reaction to other politician I don't like.
"And in Poilievre’s case, a significant number of women appear to be picking up a signal—an incongruity they may not be able to explain rationally, but can feel intuitively." I take issue with this. I can explain why I don't like what Pollievre is offering quite rationally. I don't agree with his policies. I don't agree with targeting "woke ideology" in universities. I don't want a leader who has cozied up to the Convoy crowd and courted anti-vaccine, conspiracist theorists. I don't care about additional money in a TFSA for Canadian investments when our hostile neighbour to the south is threatening our sovereignty. I don't think the industrial carbon tax should be cancelled. And so on and so forth.
I hear & agree with you, but let's not forget this from 2022:
“analysis of 50 of Poilievre’s most recent YouTube videos showed that they included a tag — hidden from viewers, but not from the videos’ publisher — used by a misogynistic online movement.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/9178531/pierre-poilievres-youtube-channel-included-hidden-misogynistic-tag-to-promote-videos/
I have said from the first time I watched him that I wouldn’t get into an elevator alone with him. I would let the doors close and wait for the next one. I absolutely don’t think that he would do anything, I would just be so uncomfortable trapped in a small space with him.
YES!! That's exactly what I said to a friend the other day! It would likely be unpleasant...
Yes!! Exactly! It's not the physical threat it's something else about him.
I'm American and have told my Canadian husband that PP was “creepy”. Then I saw what an absolute mysoginyst he is & how cozy he got with right wing fringe in Canada & spouting things that sound a lot like Project 2025 plans.
So, Canadian women, get out and vote & save democracy! Carney winning would definitely set the stage for more global resistance & cooperation.
He’s creepy and completely disingenuous. He is the antithesis of authenticity. I also completely disagree with Every. Single. Slogan. - that for him and the Cons passes for policy. He’s also a control freak - the way his entire campaign was designed to exclude/micro-manage every interaction with the Press is anti-democratic. PP is the 🍊pretender.
If PP or his type, walked in to a place I was having a beer, I would clock his predatory whereabouts at all times and never be on my own with him. Carney, on the other hand, could join our table for a meal and awesome conversation.
Exactly!
Sure, intuitively he gives off immediate mysoginist, creepy, controlling, insincere predator; but and also, he blatantly states his views often and loudly all the time about his views on women, their rights, their bodies, and “thier place”, is complicit in inciting angry mobs of incels to harass women and girls who he dislikes, and cavorts with anti anti-racist ideologically extreme christian nationalists who see women as subordinate. So yeah, no thanks. And yes, please trust the women on this one. He does not have humanity’s best interest at heart, only grievance. Sound familiar?
He was trained by Stephen Harper a former PM who once said " women do not belong in politics. They belong at home, pregnant and in the kitchen".
This was in his younger years when he was being trained by Preston Manning of the REFORM PARTY! Anyone else remember this
Or maybe I'm just old and have had "a creepy feeling" about all three of them
No, Gail, you are absolutely correct that for sure ALL 3 are mega creepy
THIS!! 💯
When he ate the apple and sparked and condensed I hated him .That has not changed.
I meant spoke and condescended.
Agreed. Although I kind of like "sparked and condensed". Feels a bit like a candle blowing out.
Thanks dear heart!!
It Is
I Trust my wife on this one.
Always trust your instincts/intuition. It is rare that I have not and when I do it has always been a huge mistake. I do not trust PP, fake and trying too hard - it is so obvious. Seems to have a problem with women, also very insincere in my opinion. Mark Carney - not without flaws like all of us for sure but trustworthy, smart, steady and calm. Thank you for a great article.
Elbows up for us🇨🇦
From my mom, my wife, my aunts, my good female friends, my sons girlfriends - PP makes their skin crawl. The visceral and instant dislike and aversion to him is something I’m paying very close attention to. Me, He’s got the perfect slappable kind of face!
Good on you for trusting the women in your life. PP makes every woman I know cringe and their skin crawl.
Yes!! Like JD Vance….he also has the face that begs for knuckles. Lol
I "just know" his conversations with men are going to be VERY different when he'd talk about women... He feels like he's putting on a persona rather than simply being a person. I don't trust that presentation of self. 😠
Thats it exactly!
I agree with this. The fact that he won't stop his cabinet from bringing forward anti-abortion debates tells me that a woman's body is up for debate. I am voting for my daughter's say over her body & her right to choose. The fact that he voted against feeding hungry students, dental coverage, and lowering pharmaceuticals such as insulin tells me that he doesnt care about our middle class/low income families. My gut tells me that he is dangerous for our democracy and country. FYI my intuition is the only reason why my child is alive, it will never steer me wrong and I will forever listen to it.
Everything you described is right out of the Heritage Foundation playbook Project 2025. Same things conservatives did in the US. Fortunately I don't think Canada is overflowing with Evangelical Christian Nationalists like has been done in the states.
I find myself hitting the mute button when his ads come on. Like nails on a chalkboard! The whole trump mimicking is also very offputting. Seeing what they are going through with his reign of terror is not something I wish to watch "maple-style".
Thanks for a well written article (even though my mind was made up before I read this!)
##NeverPoilievre
Women have always known to trust our instincts, especially when it comes to men. As we get older, our instincts become even more attuned.
This is a great article. I will say it's not just Poilievre, it's his wife too. When she started the bullying and firestorm of lies thrown at Trudeau, it was disturbing. Then during a meet and greet, she responded to an older women in such a condescending manner, I was disgusted. It reminded me of our southern neighbours' style of politics. So, it's just the whole package that I cannot tolerate.
Not only women have this intuition, And the intuition of women is powerful and essential. Thanks for this beautiful and timely reminder. As for the beer test, what? Oh crikes. Please, no. Can't I stick with my intuition? I don't even like beer.
Thanks for the support, everyone. I am totally sincere. These are wise words about tuition. Please keep up the fight for us all. I will, too. Blessings.
Yes. I only vote for people who are smarter than I am. I know who my Con candidate is (and was) she isn’t getting my vote. The Liberal candidate was asked by the PM to run, no doubt because of his background. I voted today.
Is that how it works? I'm a PR here & trying to understand the system here. So JT picked Carney or the whole party to replace him?
If I were JT I would be damn happy I didn't have to smell Donald anymore. 😂🤣
Not exactly. The Prime Minister is not elected by all Canadians like a President. He (she) is elected to lead the Party on a ranked ballot. When there is a general election people vote for a candidate in their Riding. The leader of the party with the most seats is the Prime Minister, the party with the second most seats is the Leader of the Opposition.
As The great Maya Angelou said: "When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time...".
No amount of repackaging can erase more than a decade of voting just to oppose, rather than try to build-and the petty, mean-spirited, US-style disrespectful snark that is he introduced into the national political conversation. He lost me when he bought coffee and donuts for now-convicted occupier yahoos in Ottawa, and referred to the Prime minister of the day by his first name, and made up nasty nicknames for him, too .
You might not like the PM of the day, or his/her people or policies. But at minimum, show some respect for the office. That's the Canadian way. And he is far too US influenced to be effective as PM.
Quite right. His "US-style disrespectful snark" is all he delivers. He turns the House of Commons into a shit-slinging match; he lies, exaggerates, insults. I still cannot understand why the Speaker (the entire series of them) of the HofC has been reluctant to impose the rules of decorum to which the electorate are entitled in their members of Parliament.
We say that every damn day about Donald and his sycophants.
You hit the nail on the head. It's not just his policies, it's him. Everything about him. With Trudeau, I always felt reassured and safe, even during COVID. I feel the same with Carney. With PP, it's not that I don't like his policies. I just don't trust him. It's visceral, and I don't usually have that kind of a reaction to other politician I don't like.