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What Bill is he trying to pass that requires him to be Prime Minister? Why couldn't he have put any legislature forward in the last 20 years?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (7 children)

He spent about half his career in government. Much of it has been spent in opposition.

[โ€“] GreyEyedGhost 10 points 4 days ago (6 children)

He spent nearly half his life in government as an elected official. He has been involved in politics since he was 21, and was in university before that. He is literally a career politician.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

When referring to MPs, "in government" refers to being part of the governing party. He is a career politician, landlord, and attack dog, but the Canadian electorate has only chosen his party to lead three times. He has spent a majority of his career yelling from the sidelines.

[โ€“] Splitdipless 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

attack dog

Calling him an attack dog suggests that he has a bite. He's all yap and as tough as wet paper-towel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Attack dog is an unofficial role in political parties:

An โ€œattack dogโ€ in politics is a person, usually a politician or a political operative, who is designated to aggressively challenge and criticize the opposition.

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They are often tasked with the responsibility of delivering negative messages or criticisms that a candidate or party leader may not want to deliver personally, in order to maintain a more positive public image.

He has done this in the past and been effective at it. His successful (unjustified) criticism of the Liberals carbon tax implementation is a great example of that: he managed to frame public perception of the rebate, despite heaps of evidence to the contrary.

Shitting on Poilievre is fine and fun, but it ignores the reality that his party has successfully framed a number of debates in the past. Assuming Carney wins the Liberal leadership, it's a significant obstacle to him winning the next federal election.

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