Jamie Bennett

Sep 18, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Jamie Bennett

For over a year, Pierre Poilievre and his team have been putting out a remarkably disciplined message: we are not the Liberals. Campaigns are about contrast, and in its dark appraisal of the country’s current state, the Conservative Party has honed a rhetoric that offers frustrated Canadians an alternative. Judging by Poilievre’s current double-digit lead in the polls, the line of attack is working. But, too often, it seems exactly that—a line. Exaggerated talk. Combative but vacant.

Sep 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Jonathan Manthorpe |Jamie Bennett

POLITICS / NOVEMBER 2024 It’s Hard to Tell What Poilievre Makes of the World Besides being anti China, the Conservatives have been largely silent on their foreign policyBY JONATHAN MANTHORPEILLUSTRATION BY JAMIE BENNETT Published 7:44, SEP. 18, 2024The Conservative Party manifesto, published in September 2023, describes a broad approach to world affairs in its two pages and nine clauses on foreign policy. It is only on promised actions against Beijing that it offers an itemized agenda.

Sep 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Paul Wells |Jamie Bennett

On his way to the Conservative leadership, Pierre Poilievre called Jean Charest a Liberal and Patrick Brown a liar. More recently, he’s called opioid policy in British Columbia wacko and Montreal’s mayor incompetent. He’s expressed support for Freedom Convoy protesters and disdain for lobbyists. He wants to defund the CBC. Will he coarsen the national character? If I’m being honest, I have to say I’m not particularly worried. Let me tell you a story.

Sep 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Arno Kopecky |Jamie Bennett

POLITICS / NOVEMBER 2024A Poilievre Government Would Be Steps Back for the ClimateHis environmental policy: lip service and denialBY ARNO KOPECKYILLUSTRATION BY JAMIE BENNETT Published 7:44, SEP. 18, 2024For Canadians who appreciate the twin threats of climate change and collapsing ecosystems, few phrases may be more frightening than “Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre.” Poilievre has promised to lay waste to Justin Trudeau’s climate and energy policies.

Sep 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Michelle Cyca |Jamie Bennett

POLITICS / NOVEMBER 2024 Poilievre’s Idea of Reconciliation Is a MessBut is that any different from Trudeau’s? BY MICHELLE CYCAILLUSTRATION BY JAMIE BENNETT Published 7:44, Sep. 18, 2024On July 11, as Pierre Poilievre began his first in-person address to the Assembly of First Nations, a number of Indigenous delegates and veterans rose from their chairs and turned their backs to the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.