Miske was rude. Very. Probably just saw her grocery bill.
Before you jump On the hate speech bandwagon remember this: Canadians are being continually lied to ,and deceived by the carney liberals. Eventually it will get more than rude if the economy continues to collapse. Folks losing their jobs, homes and futures may get ugly.
People are commenting that Alberta separatists should be hung. Should they all be arrested?
Canada has changed in so many ways because we have been listening to lying politicians for the last decade and being ruled by activist unelected judges.
And nothing is changing for the politicians but we are getting poorer financially, in education, unity and common sense.
Agree. The sense of helplessness among Canadians ,as bills come in and everything costs more; media repeats the lies and deception from a series of press releases written by the PMO ,so that banner headlines across MSM have similar leads.
Brian you must feel it with your Toronto tax bill. Imagine if your Toronto Sun gig ended suddenly and then government decided your you tube account was unacceptably critical of the administration and should be demonetized.
By the way Brian, speaking of Carnage, if the chief justice of Canada does not recuse himself from hearing the freedom Convoy government appeal due to prejudicial comments he personally made publicly to le Devoir BITD you can expect drama.
“The only notable public criticism from an SCC justice came after the Emergencies Act was used (and even after it was revoked on February 23, 2022). In an April 2022 interview with Le Devoir, Chief Justice Richard Wagner described the Ottawa protests as “the beginning of anarchy where some people have decided to take other citizens hostage” and said such actions against democratic institutions “should be denounced with force.” This drew complaints to the Canadian Judicial Council in May 2022 for allegedly undermining impartiality (especially given later court challenges to the Emergencies Act). “
That judge should be taken off the bench immediately. He needs to keep his opinions to himself & judge law & order - nothing else. He's not doing that nor are many judges today. They're activists & are not following the law at all, especially if they don't like it.
Right Angela. Judges need to only follow the law and not insert their opinions or so called hypothetical cases. Go home and bore your family to death with those.
Just to pile on Brian’s thread with absolutely no relevance other then the destruction of our Canadian life. I drove to Lewiston Ny yesterday. Left with a Full tank. Used Half a tank of gas getting there. Topped up in Lewiston cost me 20 usd. 290 km.
Drove back yesterday afternoon. Half a tank of gas. Just filled up at Port Perry’s estimable Fillup Fuels on the scugog Island reservation this morning:
Pathetic considering how oil rich our country is but instead of rushing to get pipelines open Carnage is still jet setting the world for his own personal gains. Such a bloody hypocrite he talks climate change and back to taxing us for it yet he's the worst offender with his full year of jet setting on our tax dollars at that.
I agree with you about Nicole Pearen Miske; wow, what an example of "how not to interact with the police!" She's an embarrassment to herself and all Canadians. In addition, IMO an antisemite. For me there is no room between declaring one to be "a zionist scumbag" and being an antisemite....but that's just me. No, I am not Jewish. And no, I am not a Carney supporter in the least. But Nicole is a pathetic example of a Canadian....absolute low-class, low-information, low-IQ trailer trash. Yes, I know what a trailer-trash redneck is; nothing like a true redneck (native Albertan here...)
No actually you people calling her low class etc are an embarrassment to Canada. You think it’s ok for the police to spy on our media posts? Seriously? Yes she talked disrespectful but considering what the police have done or not done the last 10 years makes her and a lot of intelligent people not trust the police.
Give your head a shake Mike. Plain and simple, threats are threats and they are illegal. I agree there are some bad apples in the police but I know 1st hand there are far more good apples in the departments and I support them 100%. Glad I'm not an officer because I don't think I could have remained as come as that officer did. She was rude, obnoxious and never afforded him even the opportunity to complete a statement without interruption. Shame on you and your potty mouth. Indeed you are an embarrassment to yourself and your country.
You people on here are the reason why Canada has been destroyed. With everything they have done to citizens would you expect her to be polite? So sad to read but expected!
YOU people you need to take a look inside yourself. Some of us still believe in self respect and manners. Someone probably called in a complaint on that fowled mouth girl and you must fit in her category as well Mike.
Clearly she did more than just call him names like 'traitor' or express her opinion of his leadership, "YOU F*** TRAITOR". Freedom of expression is all fine and dandy. But when she threatens him, "I'm coming for you...", "You will get yours!" These are clearly threats. I imagine she will tone down her threats and so will others. Online you can't tell who is a serious threat and who isn't. There are people out there who will actually try to physically hurt public officials. I think this caution is great and certainly not a waste of my tax dollars! And I hope that officer is proud of what he does for a living!
rc_, as much as I agree this older lady was very angry and vulgar, how do you see "and I hope that officer is proud of what he does for a living". There are so many things 'officers' let by but they came for this woman in particular because of her language at the PM. If it was for any other citizen, it would likely be ignored. The officer wasn't rude; however, look at what is going on in Toronto right now. The low hanging fruit is always the easiest to grasp.
Wow Poirer has set the stage for Poliviere., but as we know Carney will or might steel his plans.. geez..we know hes done it many times before..maybe why hes reluctant to go places..jmo
Joe Rogan. Interesting.. i don't care for him.not sure why
... but he has a huge followi ... So.
The lady that made the threatening posts...cant go around threatening the PM..hes special and protected..and she not...
Unfortunately, for all the positive news Poilievre is generating, this silly woman is handing the Liberals a hammer.
Threats are not a conservative staple, they are actions of an extremist fringe that have nothing to do with the Conservative Party of Canada. They only stand for themselves and she should have been prosecuted.
Once again when the entire context is revealed, the truth comes out. I'm pro-Israel and have no time for the ICC BS. However, this woman is unhinged; she clearly is making a threat or coming close to it. A wise use of police resources.
During the dirty 30s, a depression severely impacted Newfoundland, leading to high unemployment and poverty. The government, led by Prime Minister Richard Squires, faced allegations of corruption. A peaceful protest began with about 2,000. The protest turned violent when demonstrators attempted to breach the Colonial Building. Police responded aggressively, leading to chaos, property damage, and injuries, Wikipedia. This story reminds me of the convoy and how the corrupt liberals handled it. The only difference was the Newfoundland prime minister and the liberals lost in the next election. Why in this God's earth are the liberals still in power in Canada.
Love your commentaries, Brian. You give information that we don't see in the mainstream media. VERY happy to know that Pierre went on Rogan - we're planning our viewing, lol.
On another note, I think you must be using dictation and/or AI - lots of typos.
Very much in agreement with John Powell's comment on the convoy - there needs to be 100% impartiality.
Poilievre’s Rogan performance is polished, but underneath the anecdotes and gym talk it’s full of distortions, omissions, and dangerous policy fantasies that would make Canada poorer, sicker, and more divided.
1. “Freest country on earth” vs his actual record
He sells himself as the champion of freedom, small government and “mind your own damn business” government. In reality, his record and platform point the other way:
He backs sweeping police and prosecutorial powers, “tough on crime” bail rules, and longer incarceration based on anecdotes about a handful of repeat offenders—policies that have historically hit Indigenous and racialized communities hardest, without reducing underlying crime drivers (poverty, addiction, housing).
He attacks supervised consumption / “safe supply” as “giving out drugs” and insists abstinence‑only treatment is the answer, despite Canadian federal and provincial evidence syntheses showing that harm reduction + OAT drastically reduce mortality and ER usage while abstinence‑only is associated with very high relapse and death rates.
He promises to “cut fake refugees” and unwind temporary migrants while conceding Canada is a “nation of immigrants” and his own wife used humanitarian pathways for family; he never addresses how his caps and purges would interact with real asylum law, labour shortages, or the reality of mixed‑motive migration.
He talks like a civil‑liberties libertarian, but consistently sells a punitive, carceral, surveillance‑state answer when it comes to crime, drugs, borders, and protest. The “freest country on earth” line is branding, not a serious rights agenda.
2. MAID and mental health: moral panic instead of facts
On MAID, he and Rogan lean into the most lurid cases to imply Canada is casually euthanizing the depressed:
Poilievre accepts that MAID has a place for end‑of‑life ALS‑type cases, but then feeds Rogan’s outrage with a story about a “kid” getting MAID for seasonal depression, using it to paint the system as predatory and corrupting public servants.
He omits that the federal government has repeatedly delayed and tightened MAID for mental illness, that strict eligibility criteria exist (capacity, enduring suffering, multiple assessments), and that the notorious “seasonal depression” case was widely misreported and later discredited by clinicians. Up‑to‑date health‑policy sources do not support his suggestion of an open door for teenagers with the winter blues.
His solution—ban public servants from even mentioning MAID and just “promote fitness” and Viktor Frankl—is sentimental but unserious. Exercise and meaning matter, but they are not an adequate replacement for properly funded psychiatric care, housing, and community supports for people in deep, treatment‑resistant distress.
He’s using real public discomfort about MAID expansions as a wedge, while ignoring the actual clinical safeguards, the moratoria, and the root cause: a shredded mental health system that his austerity/deficit‑hawk agenda would make worse.
3. Oil sands and “best industry in the world”: outright propaganda
His description of the oil sands on Rogan is propaganda, not analysis:
He tells Rogan Fort McMurray’s open‑pit mines are “the most responsible oil extraction in the world,” that “you wouldn’t even know there was a mine there” after reclamation, and that there is “no impact to groundwater, no impact to the environment.”
Peer‑reviewed work and Alberta’s own data show: massive tailings ponds covering hundreds of square kilometres; toxic seepage concerns; huge land disturbance; and reclamation proceeding at a tiny fraction of the disturbed area. Even Canada’s federal environment commissioner has flagged chronic under‑provisioning for cleanup. None of this appears in his description.
He declares First Nations “absolutely love” the oil sands and LNG because some communities have secured equity and jobs, without acknowledging the long list of Indigenous nations who are in court against these projects over land rights, contamination, and lack of consent.
He sells an Alberta‑booster fantasy: no environmental damage, Indigenous people all on board, engineers solving everything. In reality, these projects are profitable and job‑rich but also environmentally destructive, legally contested, and extremely carbon‑intensive. His refusal to admit any downside is intellectually dishonest.
His inflation and housing story mixes valid critiques with magical thinking:
He is right that loose monetary policy and asset inflation have transferred wealth from wage‑earners to asset‑holders, and that housing costs have outpaced incomes dramatically. His “10 apples, 20 dollars” explanation of inflation is Econ 101, not some unique insight.
But his solution set—Swiss‑style hard money, strict no‑net‑new‑spending PAYGO, deep cuts to bureaucracy, foreign aid, “fake refugees,” and corporate welfare—would mean:
Pro‑cyclical austerity in downturns (when automatic stabilizers are most needed).
Slashing exactly the supports (social housing, income supports, public health) that blunt inequality and demand spikes.
Freezing or cutting climate, Indigenous, and infrastructure spending under the label of “waste.”
He pretends you can “unlock resources, cut red tape, balance budgets, and everything gets cheaper” without confronting:
Global oil demand volatility and the risk of stranded assets.
That rapid deregulation and compressed project assessments increase catastrophic‑risk tails (tailings dams, spills, fires).
That Canada’s home‑price explosion is as much about financialization, zoning, short‑term rentals, and provincial policy as “federal gatekeepers.”
He diagnoses a real problem—asset‑inflation‑driven inequality—and prescribes a mix of 1990s austerity, Reagan‑era “drill, baby, drill,” and simplistic demonization of migrants and bureaucrats.
5. Crime, drugs, and “soft on crime” myths
His crime segment with Rogan is a greatest‑hits of evidence‑free “common sense” tough talk:
Poilievre cites Vancouver re‑arresting the same 40 people 6,000 times and a Penticton offender whose release makes crime spike, using this to argue for much harsher bail.
He offers zero data on:
What proportion of crime is actually committed by that tiny cohort.
Whether longer detention reduces re‑offending after eventual release.
The role of poverty, severe addiction, and housing insecurity in that pattern.
On opioids, he acknowledges the Sackler fraud and massive death toll, then pivots to say “government giving safer opioids” made it worse and that abstinence‑based treatment “works” and is “very successful”—contrary to Canadian and US evidence showing:
OAT (methadone/buprenorphine) and supervised consumption substantially reduce deaths and infections.
Abstinence‑only has high relapse and overdose rates, especially post‑detox.
He wraps punitive carceral policy and abstinence‑only ideology in stories of grieving mothers and troubled small towns, while erasing what actually works in harm reduction and sentencing reform.
6. Immigration and “fake refugees”
His talk about “fake refugees” and unwinding temporary migration is vague, inflammatory, and hypocritical:
He says Canada is paying “fake refugees” who “pretend” to be in danger; his solution is to cut support and force people out “lawfully” when permits expire.
He never defines how he would distinguish “fake” from “real” in practice beyond the legal process that already exists (IRB, PRRA, H&C). He ignores how often H&C is used for people who are not Convention refugees but have strong establishment and hardship factors—exactly the route his own extended family used.
He brushes aside the role of international students and TFWs in propping up underfunded universities, eldercare, agriculture, and low‑wage sectors, then blames them for a housing crisis driven by policy choices and investor speculation.
The subtext for Rogan’s US audience is clear: Poilievre is Canada’s own anti‑“illegals” candidate, minus Trump’s vulgarities. The policy substance is crude and selective.
7. The performance itself: marketing, not seriousness
Finally, the Rogan appearance is a carefully engineered brand‑building exercise, not a serious policy interview:
He spends large chunks of time on kettlebells, GSP, Bruce Lee, Victor Frankl, Bobby Orr, jiu‑jitsu, baby formula, McDonald’s burgers, his apple meme—curated masculinity and “common sense” stories designed to soften and humanize him for a US audience.
Rogan gives him almost no hard pushback on any Canadian policy claim—MAID numbers, oil sands impacts, Indigenous consent, opioid treatment, refugee law, or Alberta’s emissions profile. Instead, Joe repeatedly marvels, “How the hell did you lose? It all sounds amazing.”
Poilievre uses that uncritical space to launder a very aggressive agenda—mass deregulation, fossil expansion, carceral sentencing, migration crackdown, Swiss‑style austerity—under the language of freedom, fitness, and family.
Miske was rude. Very. Probably just saw her grocery bill.
Before you jump On the hate speech bandwagon remember this: Canadians are being continually lied to ,and deceived by the carney liberals. Eventually it will get more than rude if the economy continues to collapse. Folks losing their jobs, homes and futures may get ugly.
Politicians are insulated from reality.
People are commenting that Alberta separatists should be hung. Should they all be arrested?
Canada has changed in so many ways because we have been listening to lying politicians for the last decade and being ruled by activist unelected judges.
And nothing is changing for the politicians but we are getting poorer financially, in education, unity and common sense.
Agree. The sense of helplessness among Canadians ,as bills come in and everything costs more; media repeats the lies and deception from a series of press releases written by the PMO ,so that banner headlines across MSM have similar leads.
Brian you must feel it with your Toronto tax bill. Imagine if your Toronto Sun gig ended suddenly and then government decided your you tube account was unacceptably critical of the administration and should be demonetized.
Can’t happen?
Appreciate your work btw.
Exactly
#AlbertaSeparation
#AlbertaIndependence
#CanadaIsLost
And if thats what it takes for the Libtard voters to finally wake up then i hope the economy crashes!!!!!
Hopefully we wake up before that!
You are right however no one should have to put up with anyone's misdirected anger. She is an embarrassment frankly.
By the way Brian, speaking of Carnage, if the chief justice of Canada does not recuse himself from hearing the freedom Convoy government appeal due to prejudicial comments he personally made publicly to le Devoir BITD you can expect drama.
I posted this to the intrepid Viking ( Roxanne )
“For the record ,as I am a Grok AI Addict:
“The only notable public criticism from an SCC justice came after the Emergencies Act was used (and even after it was revoked on February 23, 2022). In an April 2022 interview with Le Devoir, Chief Justice Richard Wagner described the Ottawa protests as “the beginning of anarchy where some people have decided to take other citizens hostage” and said such actions against democratic institutions “should be denounced with force.” This drew complaints to the Canadian Judicial Council in May 2022 for allegedly undermining impartiality (especially given later court challenges to the Emergencies Act). “
That judge should be taken off the bench immediately. He needs to keep his opinions to himself & judge law & order - nothing else. He's not doing that nor are many judges today. They're activists & are not following the law at all, especially if they don't like it.
Right Angela. Judges need to only follow the law and not insert their opinions or so called hypothetical cases. Go home and bore your family to death with those.
But it was not threatening to NATIONAL security. i get the point though. Even judges dissgree..
Just to pile on Brian’s thread with absolutely no relevance other then the destruction of our Canadian life. I drove to Lewiston Ny yesterday. Left with a Full tank. Used Half a tank of gas getting there. Topped up in Lewiston cost me 20 usd. 290 km.
Drove back yesterday afternoon. Half a tank of gas. Just filled up at Port Perry’s estimable Fillup Fuels on the scugog Island reservation this morning:
$60.00 Canadian. 319 km
SMH
Pathetic considering how oil rich our country is but instead of rushing to get pipelines open Carnage is still jet setting the world for his own personal gains. Such a bloody hypocrite he talks climate change and back to taxing us for it yet he's the worst offender with his full year of jet setting on our tax dollars at that.
All that Linda and not accomplishing much of anything except maybe a nice Italian holiday.
I agree with you about Nicole Pearen Miske; wow, what an example of "how not to interact with the police!" She's an embarrassment to herself and all Canadians. In addition, IMO an antisemite. For me there is no room between declaring one to be "a zionist scumbag" and being an antisemite....but that's just me. No, I am not Jewish. And no, I am not a Carney supporter in the least. But Nicole is a pathetic example of a Canadian....absolute low-class, low-information, low-IQ trailer trash. Yes, I know what a trailer-trash redneck is; nothing like a true redneck (native Albertan here...)
Yes, well said.
Entirely agree w you.
No actually you people calling her low class etc are an embarrassment to Canada. You think it’s ok for the police to spy on our media posts? Seriously? Yes she talked disrespectful but considering what the police have done or not done the last 10 years makes her and a lot of intelligent people not trust the police.
Give your head a shake Mike. Plain and simple, threats are threats and they are illegal. I agree there are some bad apples in the police but I know 1st hand there are far more good apples in the departments and I support them 100%. Glad I'm not an officer because I don't think I could have remained as come as that officer did. She was rude, obnoxious and never afforded him even the opportunity to complete a statement without interruption. Shame on you and your potty mouth. Indeed you are an embarrassment to yourself and your country.
You people on here are the reason why Canada has been destroyed. With everything they have done to citizens would you expect her to be polite? So sad to read but expected!
YOU people you need to take a look inside yourself. Some of us still believe in self respect and manners. Someone probably called in a complaint on that fowled mouth girl and you must fit in her category as well Mike.
Carney is only a Zionist when the polling tells him to be one. If the polling said 51% of Canadians approve of tripping seniors, he'd be all in.
😂
LOL!!
Or Tigers Eating People's Faces.
Clearly she did more than just call him names like 'traitor' or express her opinion of his leadership, "YOU F*** TRAITOR". Freedom of expression is all fine and dandy. But when she threatens him, "I'm coming for you...", "You will get yours!" These are clearly threats. I imagine she will tone down her threats and so will others. Online you can't tell who is a serious threat and who isn't. There are people out there who will actually try to physically hurt public officials. I think this caution is great and certainly not a waste of my tax dollars! And I hope that officer is proud of what he does for a living!
And yet you are ok with the death threats to Jews and Canada for the last 2.5 years?
NO I am not.
rc_, as much as I agree this older lady was very angry and vulgar, how do you see "and I hope that officer is proud of what he does for a living". There are so many things 'officers' let by but they came for this woman in particular because of her language at the PM. If it was for any other citizen, it would likely be ignored. The officer wasn't rude; however, look at what is going on in Toronto right now. The low hanging fruit is always the easiest to grasp.
NO it was not her language at the PM it was her threats toward him. He may deserve it but it's still illegal.
Wow Poirer has set the stage for Poliviere., but as we know Carney will or might steel his plans.. geez..we know hes done it many times before..maybe why hes reluctant to go places..jmo
Joe Rogan. Interesting.. i don't care for him.not sure why
... but he has a huge followi ... So.
The lady that made the threatening posts...cant go around threatening the PM..hes special and protected..and she not...
That woman not only violated Canadian law, she criticized Israel and its leader which is a breach of (unspoken) international law.
Unfortunately, for all the positive news Poilievre is generating, this silly woman is handing the Liberals a hammer.
Threats are not a conservative staple, they are actions of an extremist fringe that have nothing to do with the Conservative Party of Canada. They only stand for themselves and she should have been prosecuted.
Did I miss something here? I didn't read she was a conservative?
Once again when the entire context is revealed, the truth comes out. I'm pro-Israel and have no time for the ICC BS. However, this woman is unhinged; she clearly is making a threat or coming close to it. A wise use of police resources.
During the dirty 30s, a depression severely impacted Newfoundland, leading to high unemployment and poverty. The government, led by Prime Minister Richard Squires, faced allegations of corruption. A peaceful protest began with about 2,000. The protest turned violent when demonstrators attempted to breach the Colonial Building. Police responded aggressively, leading to chaos, property damage, and injuries, Wikipedia. This story reminds me of the convoy and how the corrupt liberals handled it. The only difference was the Newfoundland prime minister and the liberals lost in the next election. Why in this God's earth are the liberals still in power in Canada.
Social media. Too much information. Not enough free thinking and common sense.
And then you have bloated government public sector employees supporting their payrollls. 😉
Love your commentaries, Brian. You give information that we don't see in the mainstream media. VERY happy to know that Pierre went on Rogan - we're planning our viewing, lol.
On another note, I think you must be using dictation and/or AI - lots of typos.
Very much in agreement with John Powell's comment on the convoy - there needs to be 100% impartiality.
I'm my own editor here, which is not ideal.
When you know what you meant to say, that is what your eyes often see during a proof read.
Get it - me too!
Francois Poirier, the CEO of TC Energy.
Will be listening to Pierre on Rogan as soon as I can! Nice 👍
Who is Poirier?
CEO of TC Energy
Poilievre’s Rogan performance is polished, but underneath the anecdotes and gym talk it’s full of distortions, omissions, and dangerous policy fantasies that would make Canada poorer, sicker, and more divided.
1. “Freest country on earth” vs his actual record
He sells himself as the champion of freedom, small government and “mind your own damn business” government. In reality, his record and platform point the other way:
He backs sweeping police and prosecutorial powers, “tough on crime” bail rules, and longer incarceration based on anecdotes about a handful of repeat offenders—policies that have historically hit Indigenous and racialized communities hardest, without reducing underlying crime drivers (poverty, addiction, housing).
He attacks supervised consumption / “safe supply” as “giving out drugs” and insists abstinence‑only treatment is the answer, despite Canadian federal and provincial evidence syntheses showing that harm reduction + OAT drastically reduce mortality and ER usage while abstinence‑only is associated with very high relapse and death rates.
He promises to “cut fake refugees” and unwind temporary migrants while conceding Canada is a “nation of immigrants” and his own wife used humanitarian pathways for family; he never addresses how his caps and purges would interact with real asylum law, labour shortages, or the reality of mixed‑motive migration.
He talks like a civil‑liberties libertarian, but consistently sells a punitive, carceral, surveillance‑state answer when it comes to crime, drugs, borders, and protest. The “freest country on earth” line is branding, not a serious rights agenda.
2. MAID and mental health: moral panic instead of facts
On MAID, he and Rogan lean into the most lurid cases to imply Canada is casually euthanizing the depressed:
Poilievre accepts that MAID has a place for end‑of‑life ALS‑type cases, but then feeds Rogan’s outrage with a story about a “kid” getting MAID for seasonal depression, using it to paint the system as predatory and corrupting public servants.
He omits that the federal government has repeatedly delayed and tightened MAID for mental illness, that strict eligibility criteria exist (capacity, enduring suffering, multiple assessments), and that the notorious “seasonal depression” case was widely misreported and later discredited by clinicians. Up‑to‑date health‑policy sources do not support his suggestion of an open door for teenagers with the winter blues.
His solution—ban public servants from even mentioning MAID and just “promote fitness” and Viktor Frankl—is sentimental but unserious. Exercise and meaning matter, but they are not an adequate replacement for properly funded psychiatric care, housing, and community supports for people in deep, treatment‑resistant distress.
He’s using real public discomfort about MAID expansions as a wedge, while ignoring the actual clinical safeguards, the moratoria, and the root cause: a shredded mental health system that his austerity/deficit‑hawk agenda would make worse.
3. Oil sands and “best industry in the world”: outright propaganda
His description of the oil sands on Rogan is propaganda, not analysis:
He tells Rogan Fort McMurray’s open‑pit mines are “the most responsible oil extraction in the world,” that “you wouldn’t even know there was a mine there” after reclamation, and that there is “no impact to groundwater, no impact to the environment.”
Peer‑reviewed work and Alberta’s own data show: massive tailings ponds covering hundreds of square kilometres; toxic seepage concerns; huge land disturbance; and reclamation proceeding at a tiny fraction of the disturbed area. Even Canada’s federal environment commissioner has flagged chronic under‑provisioning for cleanup. None of this appears in his description.
He declares First Nations “absolutely love” the oil sands and LNG because some communities have secured equity and jobs, without acknowledging the long list of Indigenous nations who are in court against these projects over land rights, contamination, and lack of consent.
He sells an Alberta‑booster fantasy: no environmental damage, Indigenous people all on board, engineers solving everything. In reality, these projects are profitable and job‑rich but also environmentally destructive, legally contested, and extremely carbon‑intensive. His refusal to admit any downside is intellectually dishonest.
4. Economics: half‑true diagnosis, dangerous cures
His inflation and housing story mixes valid critiques with magical thinking:
He is right that loose monetary policy and asset inflation have transferred wealth from wage‑earners to asset‑holders, and that housing costs have outpaced incomes dramatically. His “10 apples, 20 dollars” explanation of inflation is Econ 101, not some unique insight.
But his solution set—Swiss‑style hard money, strict no‑net‑new‑spending PAYGO, deep cuts to bureaucracy, foreign aid, “fake refugees,” and corporate welfare—would mean:
Pro‑cyclical austerity in downturns (when automatic stabilizers are most needed).
Slashing exactly the supports (social housing, income supports, public health) that blunt inequality and demand spikes.
Freezing or cutting climate, Indigenous, and infrastructure spending under the label of “waste.”
He pretends you can “unlock resources, cut red tape, balance budgets, and everything gets cheaper” without confronting:
Global oil demand volatility and the risk of stranded assets.
That rapid deregulation and compressed project assessments increase catastrophic‑risk tails (tailings dams, spills, fires).
That Canada’s home‑price explosion is as much about financialization, zoning, short‑term rentals, and provincial policy as “federal gatekeepers.”
He diagnoses a real problem—asset‑inflation‑driven inequality—and prescribes a mix of 1990s austerity, Reagan‑era “drill, baby, drill,” and simplistic demonization of migrants and bureaucrats.
5. Crime, drugs, and “soft on crime” myths
His crime segment with Rogan is a greatest‑hits of evidence‑free “common sense” tough talk:
Poilievre cites Vancouver re‑arresting the same 40 people 6,000 times and a Penticton offender whose release makes crime spike, using this to argue for much harsher bail.
He offers zero data on:
What proportion of crime is actually committed by that tiny cohort.
Whether longer detention reduces re‑offending after eventual release.
The role of poverty, severe addiction, and housing insecurity in that pattern.
On opioids, he acknowledges the Sackler fraud and massive death toll, then pivots to say “government giving safer opioids” made it worse and that abstinence‑based treatment “works” and is “very successful”—contrary to Canadian and US evidence showing:
OAT (methadone/buprenorphine) and supervised consumption substantially reduce deaths and infections.
Abstinence‑only has high relapse and overdose rates, especially post‑detox.
He wraps punitive carceral policy and abstinence‑only ideology in stories of grieving mothers and troubled small towns, while erasing what actually works in harm reduction and sentencing reform.
6. Immigration and “fake refugees”
His talk about “fake refugees” and unwinding temporary migration is vague, inflammatory, and hypocritical:
He says Canada is paying “fake refugees” who “pretend” to be in danger; his solution is to cut support and force people out “lawfully” when permits expire.
He never defines how he would distinguish “fake” from “real” in practice beyond the legal process that already exists (IRB, PRRA, H&C). He ignores how often H&C is used for people who are not Convention refugees but have strong establishment and hardship factors—exactly the route his own extended family used.
He brushes aside the role of international students and TFWs in propping up underfunded universities, eldercare, agriculture, and low‑wage sectors, then blames them for a housing crisis driven by policy choices and investor speculation.
The subtext for Rogan’s US audience is clear: Poilievre is Canada’s own anti‑“illegals” candidate, minus Trump’s vulgarities. The policy substance is crude and selective.
7. The performance itself: marketing, not seriousness
Finally, the Rogan appearance is a carefully engineered brand‑building exercise, not a serious policy interview:
He spends large chunks of time on kettlebells, GSP, Bruce Lee, Victor Frankl, Bobby Orr, jiu‑jitsu, baby formula, McDonald’s burgers, his apple meme—curated masculinity and “common sense” stories designed to soften and humanize him for a US audience.
Rogan gives him almost no hard pushback on any Canadian policy claim—MAID numbers, oil sands impacts, Indigenous consent, opioid treatment, refugee law, or Alberta’s emissions profile. Instead, Joe repeatedly marvels, “How the hell did you lose? It all sounds amazing.”
Poilievre uses that uncritical space to launder a very aggressive agenda—mass deregulation, fossil expansion, carceral sentencing, migration crackdown, Swiss‑style austerity—under the language of freedom, fitness, and family.
Love you Pierre!!!!!!