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What Pierre Poilievre Doesn’t Get About His Economic Hero | The Tyee

Adam Smith wasn’t a conservative and knew markets could fail, even if Poilievre says otherwise.

The Tyee

"#Poilievre presents justice — fairness, poverty reduction, the well-being of those left behind — as something that markets produce incidentally when they are left alone. ... But this framing depends on a separation of efficiency and justice that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny."

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/04/27/What-Pierre-Poilievre-Economic-Hero/

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What Pierre Poilievre Doesn’t Get About His Economic Hero | The Tyee

Adam Smith wasn’t a conservative and knew markets could fail, even if Poilievre says otherwise.

The Tyee

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️10h ago

... re: pardons ...

Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/04/donald-trumps-pardon-economy
nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/YxYO3

For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game—or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago—away

Thank John Roberts' / SCOTUS

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #ChristianNationalism #theocracy #patriarchy #misogyny #tyranny #hegemony

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #antiLGBTQ+ #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
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Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy

Clemency is big business under Trump, who has pardoned Rod Blagojevich, George Santos, the reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, the crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, and hundreds of others. Ruth Marcus reports.

The New Yorker

CBC Politics 1d ago

Poilievre demands Carney cap federal deficit at $31B ahead of spring economic update
Ahead of an important fiscal update this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding Prime Minister Mark Carney cap the federal deficit at $31 billion by eliminating big ticket items like a major rail project and the gun buyback program.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-carney-budget-update-us-trade-war-donald-trump-tariffs-9.7177934?cmp=rss

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

...
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #antiLGBTQ+ #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

🇺🇲 Christofascism: funding hate - License Plates Funding Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Groups
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/your-license-plate-might-be-funding

More than $7 million of funds for specialty license plates have been funneled to groups notorious for their anti-LGBTQ policies

Alliance Defending Freedom, other SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #ChristianNationalism #theocracy #patriarchy
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

Your License Plate Might Be Funding an Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Group

An Uncloseted Media and LOOKOUT investigation has found that more than $7 million of funds for specialty license plates have been funneled to groups notorious for their anti-LGBTQ policies.

Uncloseted Media

Byrnejmf 2d ago

interesting. #Canada attracting more foreign investment under #carney then all other #G7 countries! Don't believe the gaslighting, lies from #CPC #poilievre!