LOL if he gets less than 70% in this by election win, he’s a goner as leader.
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Conservatives have destroyed us and we’re still going to vote for stupid cowboy hat wearing rednecks. Vile
He's not a cowboy redneck, he's a rich high society career politician from Ottawa pretending to be a cowboy to hopefully win more than an embarassignly low percentage (70%+) of the vote in the most conservative riding in Canada.
To be fair, this riding is almost entirely cowboy hat wearing rednecks. The funny part is that Pierre is a member of the political elite class these people claim to hate, but they'll vote for him anyway
Rural AB is dumber then a bag of hammers
Hey! As an Albertan I find that………true.
All hat and no cattle
10 gallon hat on a 5 gallon head
Well, hopefully not. He did lose, after all.
He lost and not only left his riding but left his entire province to move to one more likely to support his views.
If that doesnt scream "for the people" what does? /s
I just do not get why any Canadians would even consider him after what a disaster Trump has been for the United States. He's Canadian Trump.
I think a big part of it is there is a lot of propaganda in the country with conservatives being "fiscally responsible". Their candidates rarely are fiscally responsible, for example conservative premier doug ford wants to rip out new bike lanes, spend money in court making bike lanes illegal, and promote car dependancy.
The conservatives also deny climate change and an upsetting amount of canadians deny climate change despite the recent wildfire smoke blanketing the country.
Dude was too much of a coward to run in Calgary, the only bit of Alberta he has a nominal connection to.
Too bad it’s not “who can look like the biggest dork with a cowboy hat on”
Idk he has some stiff competition.
I'm convinced at this point that he practices smiling in the mirror. His entire face is darksided. These thumbnails creep me out.
He will likely win his riding. There is a chance of it not being lopsided though.
In rural Alberta? It'll be lopsided.
Him winning less than 65% of the vote would be embarrassing. I think the last dude won with something like 85%
Either way he's an embarrassment. I can't, for the life of me understand how he's still leader.
Not very crucial. It's a very secure Conservative riding.