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Pierre Poilievre calls supervised consumption sites 'drug dens' (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"These are not 'drug dens,' they are health centres," said Philpott, now the dean of health sciences at Queen's University, in a post on X.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's because he's a demagogue.

He's trying to bait emotional voters to be angry and vote for him, rather than using logic and policy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup, hopefully people see past the anger and fear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Enough people won't unfortunately. I fear the social backslide that's going to happen as a result of the next election simply because people blame the liberals for global inflation despite it happening exactly the same in conservative-run countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If people want to blame the liberals then they should also blame first-past-the-post for forcing them into 2 options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Which gets us back to blaming the Liberals...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gonna go on the record right now and say that this dude is a real turd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I can back that