There’s a shift happening in Canadian politics that’s worth pausing on — a change you can actually feel in conversations, in polling, and in the collective eye-roll Canadians seem to be developing every time Pierre Poilievre fires up his megaphone routine.
For a while, the theatrics worked. Shouting “Axe the Tax” at every microphone and park bench gave him energy, headlines, and a very online fan club. But increasingly, the volume isn’t matching the value. And people are noticing.
Canadians aren’t allergic to passion — far from it. What they are allergic to are leaders who speak in all caps because they don’t have enough lowercase letters to form an actual policy. We’ve now watched Poilievre deliver years of slogans without providing the one thing you need if you plan to govern a G7 country: specifics.
On housing?
He blames everything but offers little beyond “build more,” as if no one ever thought of that before.
On healthcare?
He amplifies frustration while ignoring the experts doing the actual work.
On the economy?
He repeats talking points that economists fact-check by lunchtime.
And on every file, the pattern is the same:
High drama, low detail. Maximum outrage, minimum plan.
Even members within his own party — quietly, carefully, anonymously — have begun acknowledging what Canadians already sense: shouting is not a strategy. Slogans are not solutions. And a leader who constantly cranks up the noise may be trying to distract from how thin the rest of the performance really is.
When the speeches get louder and the answers get smaller, it’s not strength.
It’s a warning.
More to come.
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