05/02/25
Yaron Brook in his recent video stated that it's bad that Conservatives lost the Canadian election. Something similar was said on an ARCUK podcast. I also initially thought that Poilievre (leader of the Conservatives) was advocating policies towards the free market. I did not track him closely, but I found these tweets of his recently, in which he critiques Mark Carney. Pierre Poilievre writes,
Mark Carney loves to brag about his experience. Here it is:
- Plagiarism
- Tax evasion
- Creative accounting
- Abusing tenants
- Union busting
- Moving his headquarters out of Canada to the U.S.
- Denying insurance claims to coal miners dying of black lung
- Taking massive loans from Chinese state-owned banks
- Advisor to Justin Trudeau on the economy
Source: https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1906520498655420431
So Poilievre critiques Carney for legal tax avoidance, for busting unions, for denying insurance claims, for taking loan money from Chinese banks. Poilievre criticizes Carney for actions that are pro-freedom. I would not expect to hear such rhetoric from a pro-capitalist.
Representatives of the Conservative party in Vancouver came onto a talk show that accepted questions from phone callers. I called and asked what is this "union busting" critique supposed to mean, and the representative said that a lot of Canadians work in unions, and the party needs their votes.
In the end I decided not to vote. I didn't want to vote for the Liberal party, since it is openly on the Left, but I didn't want to vote for the Conservative party, because it is against capitalism. In the end, I am happy that Mark Carney won, out of all the possibilities. Also, since Liberals got a minority government, they will be faced with opposition from Conservatives, and I hope this opposition will be a good one.