PP: WHY WON’T YOU GET SECURITY CLEARANCE?!! And why is anyone allowed to run without it??
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Clearly something that needs to be changed in Canadian politics. No donations from other countries! (I still think he’s lying, though)
It's interesting that PP has a soft spot for representatives of a democracy-cosplaying authoritarian leader of another country who saw fit to commit an assassination in Canada.
I've gone through this and nothing was actually illegal or questionable. I'm not really sure what the contention is.
Doesn’t have to be anything, it’s good that you’re informed
I will say he is at least dishonest; between refusing security clearances and
He also met with the co-chair of Poilievre’s leadership campaign in Ottawa, and hosted a breakfast at his home for two Conservative MPs and party supporters to discuss the Tory “vision for Canada’s future.”
Pretending not to know these people
“I received 37,000 separate donations that anybody can make online,” Poilievre said. “We don’t have the capacity to do CSIS background checks on every single person who makes those 37,000 donations.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11124257/poilievre-responds-donors-overseas-friends-bjp-modi/
These guys aren't the Stronachs, Westons, Irvings or Sobeys pumping money into parties, who the leaders have to know. I'm not going to put it past PP to not remember the name of a brown person who he didn't meet for breakfast either.
It puts him networked enough in the party for someone to have told him that he’s more than just a donor between the report and that statement