These are all my own opinions and conclusions based on the information from reports, interviews. I have done my best to source everything I possibly can with a diverse set of outlets and authorities.

After reviewing Pierre Poilievre’s recent campaigning, and an admittedly surface level review of his history as a politician (his only work experience), I have come to see Poilievre is firmly placing himself in the camp of fascism. It is always a bad idea to give a fascist any access to power, Poilievre’s fascism is dangerous even if it seems unassuming.

I’m not here to tell anyone who to vote for, but please consider anyone but a conservative in this coming election.

If you don’t have all day, feel free to choose a section that speaks to your curiosity. I’ve done my best to include meaningful criteria and thorough analyses in each section.

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1. “Canada First” Video

Haven’t we heard that before? Canada First, our nation above all other considerations, this is the calling card of a fascistic campaign. That logic, driven entirely from a core nationalism is the same toxic source that “true patriots” derive their self-adulation and justification from. This is how you get people to accept and support irrational and brutal acts and policies – and to abdicate any responsibility for those acts – on the false grounds that the nation demands it, the nation needs it. In reality it is merely serving the power of the leader and their party, with no benefit for the rest of us.

That trailer is legitimately hard to watch: the first 30 seconds breeze by like part of the intro to a Helldivers trailer, but at 31 seconds it devolves into something so vile it immediately reminds me of the Neo-Nazi 14 words: the focus on protecting “our people”.

But without a thorough understanding of fascist history (not that I’m an expert) I could see how it might be considered comforting or even hopeful.

This transcript is copied from YouTube, with my own punctuation and formatting added.

It seems uncontroversial to read this introduction in isolation: a strong focus on internal trade, standing on our own, strength from within. Self-reliance as national policy is very similar to “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” (a saying originally used to point out the impossibility of this type of self-reliance). The policy here is overly simple and would be catastrophic if implemented. But for our interest here, it is illustrative of two perspectives of fascism: cutting ourselves off from the allies that might stand in the way of Pierre and the Conservatives fascist goals; and also creating boundaries between “our people” and “those people”.

Cutting off and minimizing relationships with allied nations is playing out before our eyes as Trump increasingly sabotages most of the United States’ trade relationships. PBS provides a handy timeline of this period and its effects. April 2nd was the US’s “Liberation Day,” finally free of international trade relations. Only a day later Canada’s Prime Minister was addressing the world saying: “The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday. The system of global trade anchored on the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership is over. While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality.”

Economic isolation solidifies internal control at the cost of economic stability and our individual quality of life. This is a dictator’s move. You can find this in so many dictatorships, the first that came to my mind was Romania under the Stalinist President Nicolae Ceausescu’s authoritarian leadership. As isolation became absolute people disappeared, officials were exiled or moved, rights were retracted and inconvenient laws suspended.

These same strategies are being executed in the United States as I write this. This is the direct implication of Pierre Poilievre’s rhetoric. It can absolutely happen here, and it has to a lesser degree. The Conservatives have already used these tactics many times over in Canada. Consider Steven Harper’s successful muzzling and gag orders of Canadian Scientists in 2013, Steven Harper’s attempt to gag advocacy groups in 2011, Brian Mulroney’s signing in the Neo-Liberal NAFTA free trade policy in 1998 (the policy that created the specific trade situation Pierre is complaining about, but will not target for change), the 1990 Oka Standoff under Mulroney where we deployed 4000 soldiers, artillery, reconaisance aircraft, armoured vehicles, and the entire national supply of barbed wire to defend a existing golf course’s expansion, and 1932 which saw Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett create Concentration Camps for unemployed Canadian citizens. There is a clear, ongoing pattern of authoritarian behaviour in this party.

The second fascist interpretation of this “We take care of us!” rhetoric and policy is that it can be used to divide the people that we arbitrarily consider “innately Canadian” from those who we consider less Canadian. “We should trade with each other, not with them.” This again is a common trend in Canadian history, and it’s worth noting that this is absolutely not exclusive to conservatives. Our country was founded in colonial ambition: separating ourselves into the ethnic in-group and out-group is a deep, divisive, and extremely evil, self-serving piece, of all Canadian politics.

That said, Pierre Poilievre’s voice-over is pushing this thinking. Alone, that is something that should deeply concern us even if he doesn’t specify who his in and out groups are in the ad. As Umberto Eco pointed out in Ur-Fascism:

“Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old “proletarians” are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.” [Emphasis mine]

This interpretation is a bit of a vibe thing. Unfortunately this type of social division comes from vibes, not facts. This makes it very hard to concretely pin down. Poilievre has talked about being open to immigrants, specifically talking about his wife and their family in a way that you could use to write off this angle of argument. But if you will, perhaps looking at the model US situation can help here too, specifically J.D. Vance, the current vice president of the United States.

J.D. is married to Usha Vance, the “first ever Asian-American and first Hindu-American second lady” she has a history of professional accomplishments as a lawyer and law clerk for many conservative judges. She is someone who could be considered part of the out-group of modern American Fascism… and despite being married to J.D. Vance he is a raving racist. To drive the point home, J.D. specifically backed Elon Musk’s appointment and re-appointment of Marko Elez who had to resign after it came out that he had posted “Normalize Indian Hate”. J.D. also specifically did not stand up for Vivek Ramaswamy an Indian-American who was forced out of DOGE.

There is no way to know with certainty that Pierre would sell out immigrants. But he’s not dissimilar from Vance, and he is the leader of a party that has done worse things in the past. He knows this, and his ads continue to signal this idea.

This section repeats the fascist ideas of the first section, but with the added taste of Naziism. Not to suggest that Pierre is a Nazi, but that his fascist messaging has probably attracted modern Neo-Nazis. We’re going to look a bit wider here, the context of naziism in the CPC (Conservative Party of Canada), Pierre’s own contributions to honouring Nazis and his tendency to be filmed with the very far-right.

And my reaction to this section is the same skin crawling feeling as hearing someone invoke the 14 words. Poilievre might not know the 14 words or that he’s gesturing in their direction, but someone on his staff very well might. Ron DeSantis had a similar incident in 2023 where a Neo-nazi staffer included the Sonenrad in a political ad, an explicitly neo-Nazi symbol that traces directly back to Heinrich Himmler and the SS.

In 2022 the CPC actually had to investigate a neo-Nazi in their own ranks who had sent an internal email praising Hitler and denigrating many nationalities. I bring this up for two reasons, the DeSantis model seems extremely plausible with this history: A) a Neo-Nazi joins the campaign and helps with an ad, it’s happened before and isn’t the party leader’s fault. B) Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Neo-Nazis in your party and rhetoric that is similar means you are saying things Nazis want to hear.

Starting under Steven Harper and later with the support of Pierre Poilievre the Conservative Party pushed a memorial to the Victims of Communism. This memorial celebrated a minimum of 50-60 known Nazis and used taxpayer money to build it.

I want to close out this wider view with Pierre Poilievre’s history of calling the Nazis socialist. He has done this publicly at least twice, this is undisputedly a Nazi talking point. And it’s a useful parallel between the old fascist of World War 2 and the modern fascists like Pierre Poilievre. Fascists lie, intentionally. The Nazis did call themselves socialist, but they weren’t. They did promise security to the working class, employment and wages, they tied the ideas of economic success to the strength of the military. Those promises aren’t the same, but are very similar to the ideas evoked in this section of Pierre’s ad. He’s not a Nazi, but Pierre and the Nazis are both fascist. Pierre needs you to not make that connection. So he must claim that the Nazis were socialist, they were the opposite of him and his party. You shouldn’t compare them because they’re so different. We see this a lot, mostly when conservatives discuss the Nazis, but also with Mussolini, people will point at his early socialist views, then ignored the ideological pivot he went through. This dynamic comes up every time there is a mass shooting. Right wing commentators will spread misinformation about the shooter to make people look anywhere but at their shared political views and messages.

This pattern of intentional lying, not the lies and exaggerations that all politicians tell, where they over-sell their goals or they assume they’ll get more done than they can. These intentionally lies to their own supporters is such key part of fascism. In fascism, truth is what the leader said, and what the leader said is true is the true patriot’s truth. As Umberto Eco put it “People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People.”

Canada Fists is a direct connection to Donald Trump’s America First, to Hitler’s use of Deutschland Über Alles: Germany Above All. That old German national anthem demonstrates concisely the problem with a slogan and logic like “Canada First” when the song opens with: “Germany, Germany above all—above everything in the world.“

Canada First is a national supremacist slogan. Palingenetic Ultranationalism, a term coined by Roger Griffin to describe the minimum trait of all Fascism around the world. In this campaign trailer, every sentence, every implication, every panning shot with soaring music is an embodiment of this idea.

The video plays soaring music and talks of rebuilding our national borders, creating a strong embrace of national security: “the nation being capable of imminent phoenix-like rebirth from the prevailing crisis…”

To get even more literal, look at the people shown in the video, the diversity… or lack there of. This is the in-group they are signalling will be protected under a conservative government’s strong national embrace: “… embracing all the ‘true’ members of the national community.”

The final two sections connect with the sentence “… defended by brave soldiers, under a proud flag. To preserve that flag and its promise we must work together, fight together, and win together!” Notice how all of the action is in service of preserving a flag. We aren’t being asked to fight for the safety of our neighbourhoods, or the common struggles we face in day to day life. Pierre makes his appeal to the working class, you and I, but the focus is an undefined concept of a nation instead of on real challenges that faces all Canadians and all workers. This is a trick, to invest all of Canadas will in a symbol instead of a struggle. The fighting is to be done by that fighter jet at 0:13, and the soldiers at 1:32 and 1:33. Your job in this paradigm is to support the nation, equate Pierre Poilievre as the nation, then go back to work for Pierre Poilievre the nation.

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In 2016 the Proud Boys (a deeply weird, Nazi-adjacent, violent, and fascist hate group born here in Canada) plastered posters up in Kamloops B.C. The posters said “CANADA FIRST” in giant letters, and then listed their tenets: “minimal government, maximum freedom, closed border, anti-racial guilt, anti-political correctness, glorifying the entrepreneur and venerating the housewife.”

The slogan is the same as Pierre Poilievre’s slogan, half the tenants are a near perfect match to Pierre’s vision of a safe Canada for Canadians. This isn’t a coincidence: they just both believe the same things.

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2. Violent Extremism, Sexism, and Incels

Pierre Poilievre has an extremism problem. Like all fascist leaders his politics are based in deep insecurities, or what we would call grievance politics. This lends itself to mustering, pandering to, and supporting extremists. Fascism also has a fixation on machismo:

“Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.”
– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

In Canada violent extremism is very tightly woven with sexism, our most notable terror events are tied to incel/sexist culture: 2020 Machete attack on spa workers; possibly a 2018 mass hooting; the 2018 Van Attack; the 2000 stabbing of an abortion doctor; 1997, 1995 and 1994 shootings of abortion doctors; the 1992 bombing of an abortion clinic; the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; 1983 shears attack on an abortion activist.

Why is this relevant? Because Pierre Poilievre and his campaign have repeatedly made it an issue that arrises in their communications.

As part of their 2022 online marketing the Poilievre campaign was caught intentionally targeting the #mgtow community, an “aggressive” male supremacist movement. The campaign had tagged at least 50 of their public promotional videos to court the movement. Even after it had already been banned from the social media site Reddit for being hateful.

Before being scrubbed, the #mgtow tags were used in every one of 50 videos reviewed by Global News — including a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, Stephen Harper’s endorsement during the recent Conservative leadership contest, and videos featuring allies like Sen. Denise Batters and former leader Andrew Scheer.

– Global News

The Poilievre campaign were also caught using the tag for Ben Shapiro, a notorious US right wing propagandist most famous for staging debates with college students and running the fascist media network Daily Wire.

This is a direct and intentional outreach to dangerous ideologies that have and will continue to murder people across the country. That support was considered valuable enough to include on all of the conservative videos going back more than four years.

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Pierre Poilievre (leader of the conservative party) is obsessed with women's "biological clocks"

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— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) April 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM

When he talks about issues that he sees as involving women, Pierre invokes disturbing concepts, the hallmark example: “Women’s Biological Clocks”. This is a disturbing framing he’s invoked at least 5 times in public, incurring at least once in a pre-taped interview. Disturbing, weird, and creepy: this paternalistic attitude about biological clocks governing decisions women and couples make has its roots in eugenics and in the machismo of fascism. It also reflect a world view where creating children is the primary goal behind housing.

The ‘child first’ attitude Poilievre has towards women ties into the pronatalist movement. This is another parallel between Pierre and US Vice president J.D. Vance, who is a an advocate for increasing birth rates based on pronatalist talking points.

On April 10th Pierre and his team where in Milton Ontario, and he ran into a small mistake. As is seen at 9:48 in the CPAC recording Pierre says:

“I won’t speak for them, but I would imagine many of these gentlemen here.”
He turns towards a line of construction workers in PPE, turns back to the podium, then seems to do a double take. Pierre quickly turns back to the workers.
“Many of these ladies and gentlemen here.”

This incident seems innocent enough, he recovers quickly and if it wasn’t for the head tilt and tone change it portably would have slid by unnoticed. He priorly could have not turned back to correct himself without anyone caring. But it does beg the question, why didn’t he think laddies and gentlemen the first time? We obviously will never truly know, but in light of his comments about Biological Clocks and his emphasis of bearing a child, it would fit with the other factors if his mental view of construction work was as a male job. It’s weird, but it’s also entirely in line with his other expressed beliefs.

Mia Wong, a fascism and economics expert with It Could Happen Here summarizes this phenomena well: “That’s the thing that because like their image of the world is, is the fascist image of the world, and the fascist image of the world, like labor is just masculinity.“

This is conjecture, and you can ignore this without effecting the clear fascism of Poiliever’s politics, but it does seem relevant when viewed in the context of everything else we’ve covered.

If Pierre Poilievre really believed that “Any form of violence against women is totally unacceptable.”, he wouldn’t court incels and mysoginists. These are opposite ideas that are incompatible.

In Nazi Germany they created a policy of Lebensborn, the “Fount of Life” policy. The goal was to have women birth racially pure children: providing financial support, housing and in some cases military orders to ensure that children were being produced. The goal was to grow the population and increase the ‘quality’ and ‘racial purity’, children were a product and women were a perishable mechanism for delivery. This policy was in place until the war forced them to bring women into the workforce.

Pierre Poilievre specifically emphasizes assisting expecting families with discounted home prices at the same time as demonizing “Uncontrolled immigration” as the cause.

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As discussed above, Pierre’s slogan and values align almost perfectly with propaganda from the Nazi-adjacent and very violent, Proud Boys. They are a self declared “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”

Where Pierre says “rebuild our borders” and “”wrapped in”the protective arms of a solid border”, the Proud boys say “Closed Borders”.

Where Pierre claims “Canadian promise that anyone from anywhere can do anything. That hard work gets you a great life”, the Proud Boys say “Glorify the Entrepreneur”

And where Pierre want’s to get every young woman in a house before their Biological Clock runs out, the proud boys say “Venerate the Housewife”

A key element of Fascism is Synchronicity, as Umberto Eco wrote in Ur-Fascism:

“This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a sliver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

– Umberto Eco, emphasis mine.

This exists very plainly in the points made by the proud boys, wanting to “Venerate the Housewife” and “Glorify the Entrepreneur” to contradictory social roles the appeal to gendered traditions. Or “Minimal Government” with “Maximal Freedom” a vibe that the government stands in the way of freedom, but when we remove regulation we tend to get poisoned water.

This fascist syncretism exists in Pierre Poilievre’s messaging too: He says “anyone from anywhere can do anything” a great idea of equality and openness, welcoming in anyone to come and achieve great things! But then he says “Safe streets, wrapped in the protective arms of a Strong Border, defended by brave soldiers” the god vibes are gone, it’s starting to feel like it might only be Canadian that he thinks should be able to “do anything”…

Poilievre finishes with: “To preserve that flag and its promise we must work together, fight together, and win together! That is what it means to put Canada first.” that definitely seems different that what we started on, like the proud boys, like the Nazi’s, this is a syncretic set of messages that call for Nationalism and a return to Tradition, for the safety of Canadians.

This is the same messaging and beliefs as the Proud Boys, just with less weird cult behaviour. And happening on a national stage with the potential to control our country for 4 years.

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Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly been caught with ‘home grown’ militant and extremist groups. Most notably in 2024 when Poilievre visited a ‘hold the line’ protest encampment, with video touring a trailer marked with the Diagalon icon. Diagalon is a group most famous for plotting and preparing for the attempted murder of a dozen police officers at the Coutts Blockade in 2022. Born out of the racist ‘Plaid Army’ streaming/online community, this is a whole Canadian far right threat that has amassed weapons and publicizes training with them.

In Pierre has been recorded by the Diagalon figure head shaking hands at a public campaign event, where they agreed on political agenda around defunding Canadian media institutions.

After the video was reported on Poilievre refused calls to disavow Diagalon, the leader he met (who was being prosecuted for gun charges at the time), or the far right violent extremist movement.

He continued to avoid disavowing them until the man he shook hands with, leader of the Diagalon movement, threatened to rape his wife Anaida Poilievre during a telegram stream in 2022. A horrifying and disgusting threat, this is a core element of the extreme far-right fascist movements being courted here. This marked a shift, Poiliever proceeded to call Jeremy and his associates “Losers” and “Dirtbags”.

An entirely seperate incident in Ottawa saw Poilievre march with and talking with James Tupp and his followers. That march would have a violent confrontation and choke an Ottawa cop just a few hours later at the National War Memorial. Tupp is an activist who is connected to Diagalon, connected to a Nazi athletic club in Manitoba, as well as other right wing groups. Among the people marching with Tupp and Poilievre where the expected flags and shirts for Canada Marches, but also a Diagalon shirt, and shirts dedicated to James Topp himself.

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3. Umberto Eco’s 14 Ways of Fascism

My understanding of Fascism studies points to Umbert Eco’s 14 ways from his essay Ur-Fascism as being a gold standard for understanding how Fascism workS. Ur-Fascism is itself a very short and good read, I highly recommend it. It is in many ways a philosophical study, if you want to skip to more concrete and tangible signs, the next section Lawrence Britt’s 14 Characteristics of Fascism has you covered!

Eco grew up during Italian Fascism, and his list is the most nuanced but also the most self-intertwined analyses of fascism that I have included. I’ve added his description under each heading so you can fully appreciate his meaning, and apply that understanding to the analyses I am giving, and your own encounters with political rhetoric.

1. The Cult of Tradition & Syncretism

The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counter-revolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but it was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of them indulgently accepted by the Roman Pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages — in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little known religions of Asia.

This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. The most influential theoretical source of the theories of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, merged the Holy Grail with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, alchemy with the Holy Roman and Germanic Empire. The very fact that the Italian right, in order to show its open-mindedness, recently broadened its syllabus to include works by De Maistre, Guenon, and Gramsci, is a blatant proof of syncretism.
If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge — that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Cult of Tradition

Pierre Poilievre has strongly pushed for a return to tradition, often deeming non-traditional things as ‘woke’. In the military he has pointed to changes like removing “Heart of Oak” the Navy’s marching song. The song is traditional, but it has little to do with Canada or ‘Canadian Values’: it predates Canada, coming from 1759; it is a British song, and it celebrates Slavery. The Canadian Navy version’s lyrics include “Still Britons” a lyric clearly more appropriate for a British Navy than a Canadian Navy. this is clear example of prioritizing tradition over the substance of our actions and meaning of our symbols.

Syncretism

As discussed in the opening, Pierre’s This is what it means to put Canada Fist ad uses a few Syncretic ideas: a mix of ideas that should clash but are each necessary parts of the new ideology:

He says “anyone from anywhere can do anything” a great idea of equality and openness! I fully agree we should welcome in anyone to come and achieve great things! But then he says “Safe streets, wrapped in the protective arms of a Strong Border, defended by brave soldiers” the god vibes are gone, it’s starting to feel like it might only be Canadians who should be able “do anything”.

The ad finishes with: “To preserve that flag and its promise we must work together, fight together, and win together! That is what it means to put Canada first.” that definitely seems different that what we started on, like the proud boys, like the Nazi’s, this is a syncretic set of messages that call for Nationalism and a return to Tradition, for the safety of Canadians. Canadians fighting and working in service to the nation.

2. The Rejection of Modernism

Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

The “cult of tradition” requires a “rejection of modernism” a dynamic that only makes sense as Syncretism. Fascist have always use modern technology to their advantage, but ideologically are tied to their tradition and nationalism; the Nazi’s had an expression for this: Blood and Soil, Blut und Boden.

That “Our soil, our flag” might sound removed from the idea ‘Rejecting modernism’, so lets look a bit closer at Poilievre’s feelings about modern culture. Thinks like increasing acceptance of Trans People and diversity, how he views modern addiction treatment for drug addicts, people removing old fashioned ideas form songs, and how he thinks of women joining ‘traditionally’ male occupations.

Diversity and Trans People

The conservative party under Pierre has an obsessive focus on protecting cis Women from the threat of trans Women, but identify trans Men as a threat to cis Men. This pretty strongly implies that they see women as inherently vulnerable.

Drug Addicts

“We need to provide treatment and recovery services that get people off of drugs” is Pierre’s standard opening line, but when he explains what he means: “We will close safe injections sites” … “I’m sorry they’re not safe injection sites” … “They’re drug dens, they’re drug dens and they made everything worse. Everywhere they’ve been done they’ve made everything worse.”

These safe consumption sites are the modern, evidence base treatment option. Along with safe supply initiative they have the best results, lower deaths, and help more people not only stay heathy, but help addicts get off of drugs. Further, all safe supply sites are independent of federal funding. Canada has more than 50 sites, with some going back more than 20 years.

Poilievre posts say to “Ban hard drugs. Defund drug dens.” banning things isn’t the same as treatment, they also are consistently linked to worsening the drug problem and increasing deaths in countries all around the world.

Updating songs and Warrior Soldiers

Pierre’s proposed military policy focuses on modernizing changes like removing “Heart of Oak” the Navy’s marching song. A song that has nothing to do with ‘Canadian Values’: it predates Canada, coming from 1759; it is a British song, and it celebrates Slavery. The Canadian Navy version’s lyrics include “Still Britons“, this song is not Canadian and not for Canadians, but replacing it is a modern change, and the motivations, removing slavery and colonial language, and not being inclusive enough. To Pierre this is modernism and it must be rejected even if traditional song is unrelated to Canada.

Pierre claims our military culture is to ‘woke’ and wants to restore the ‘warrior culture’ he believes we should have. Pierre’s campaign has avoided defining what ‘woke’ s or what ‘warrior culture’ is. Warrior culture is a common sentiment in all militaries and even in police training, our ‘Woke’ military still refers to warrior culture. But militaries that define their primary goals as Warrior Culture tend to loose their effectiveness, hollowed out by the superficial performance of toughness that Pierre wants to see. Examples of Potemkin training in Russia and North Korea highlight the superficiality of this ideology, and the Warrior Culture effectiveness can be measure in how effectively Russian troops and North Korean Troops have been in Ukraine. An operation scheduled to take three to ten days has now extended to three years, with almost a million dead on the invading Warrior side.

Women in Construction

On April 10th Pierre Poilievre seemed to forget that women work in construction during a press conference. As is seen at 9:48 in the CPAC recording Pierre says:

“I won’t speak for them, but I would imagine many of these gentlemen here.”
He turns towards a line of construction workers in PPE, turns back to the podium, then seems to do a double take. Pierre quickly tuns back to the workers.
“Many of these ladies and gentlemen here.”

Mia Wong, a fascism and economics expert with It Could Happen Here summarizes this phenomena well: “That’s the thing that because like their image of the world is is the fascist image of the world, and the fascist image of the world, like labor is just masculinity.”

(For a bonus exersize, work backwards from “labor is just masculinity.”, in a world where men are their job and their value comes from their job. What does that say about the unemployed, homeless and people disabled in ways they can’t work? How does that align with the stance of someone like Pierre Poilievre? Or of any other politician?)

Pierre would never outright say something like that, It’s very possible he doesn’t think he is sexist, that only men can work jobs. But he has shown that he, possibly only subconsciously, thinks Real Men do Real Jobs. Women on the other hand have Biological Clocks to worry about. In his view we need to get young women into a home to be a real wife.

3. The Cult of Action for Action’s Sake

Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Pierre Poilievre is most consistent in showing his commitment to action without though. He loves to describe a simple action like “Build the Homes” or “Treat the addiction”, while immediately following up those action items with a list of contradictory statements that would prevent the substantive solutions.
When espousing on how you “Treat the addiction” his posts say to “Ban hard drugs. Defund drug dens.” those aren’t treatments, they also are consistently linked to worsening the drug problem and increasing deaths in countries all around the world.

Poilievre is calling specifically for thoughtless action, action for actions sake.

4. Disagreement is Treason

No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Poilievre has promised to take away funding from scientific research he deems woke, though he did not layout what Woke means in a research context. Currently the Untied States has purged funding from significant medical studies due to keywords that Elon Musk’s team deemed Woke, the same term and goals Pierre is praising to deliver on.

Past conservative administration that Pierre has been part of have directly attacked scientific research that disagreed with their policies using gag orders and shutting down entire labs to stop evidence from being released.

In his Quebec Platform speech, Pierre made it clear that he will go after research funding. His ‘woke’ umbrella term can include studies on the effects of mental health medication, climate change and environmental studies, even animal population tracking if it mentions ‘gender”. In the US even cancer research has been killed under the guise of woke.

5. Fear of Difference

Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

A good example of this is how Pierre Poilievre seems to be terrified of “Woke”. For him Woke seems to simply encompass everything different that he is uncomfortable with. Pierre will point to many things as Woke but when asked to define it the only concept he has ever offered was:

“As for the definition of woke, woke has one purpose and only one purpose. It has plenty of pretexts but only one purpose: control. It is designed to divide people by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, vaccine status and any other way one can divide people into groups. Why?
It is because then one can justify having a government to control all those groups. No more woke; we need freedom.”

You should note that that’s not actually the definition of Woke. But it does clarify how Poilievre feels about Woke things. When someone does something Woke, like coming out as trans or dating someone of the same gender, Pierre interprets that personal choice as an actual attempt to control him. That is both detached from reality and entirely based on his fear of these differences. Something new that the doesn’t understand is here and it scares him.

6. Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class

Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old “proletarians” are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

This characteristic is nearly universal in all modern politicians campaigns, so Pierre Poilievre dose this as much or more than the people he is campaigning agains.

Axe The Tax was Pierre’s go to slogan for literally years, right up until Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney removed the tax. Days later Poilievre began talking about the Carbon Tax Rebate. These complaints have been squarely aimed at the Canadian Middle class, positioning the carbon tax as a major driver of

Poilievre has recently proposed two ways to reduce the burden on purchasing homes, rhetorically he proposes that these will help you people in the middle class to buy their first house. Pierre’s plan maximizes the discount on new homes making it ideal for real-estate investors, essentially a “Buy 4 houses, get one free” style discount for landlords.

7. Obsession with a Plot: The followers must feel besieged.

To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country. This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the U.S., a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson’s The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

He talks about how “Erasing our history” is part of a plot to seize socialist control and enforce a utopian” regime.

When Polievre invokes woke, utopian, socialist, globalists, and even world economic forum, he is doing the same propaganda tactic that the Nazi’s did when they invoked Jewishness, Globalists, and Bolshevism. The Nazi’s alleged a grand plot by Jewish people around the world to press the workers of Germany. This is structurally extremely similar to Poiliever’s proposed conspiracy about the “Woke agenda to erase our culture, or symbols, our past.” and how it “allows authoritarian socialists to write over all of that with a brand new utopian ideology which ends in misery.”

Pierre rarely makes the mistake of expressing these ideas all together like he did in that Sun News interview, but he does bring up in small parts all over the place. The liberal campaign cut together his statements with those of American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a way that shows the similarities. Alex Jones is an american conspiracy theorist who believes in a globalist plot to destroy American freedom and enslave the masses, he also believes he is a prophet of god (who tells him the time without having to check a clock), and is very tightly connected to Neo-Nazis.

Watch the unique and specific language they both use, and refer back to Pierres segment about the Socialist Control of Canada mentioned above. There is an undercurrent of Alex Jones style conspiracy behind a lot of Pierre’s politics, but he knows to only let it out in little bits at a time.

8. The Enemies are at the Same Time Too Strong and Too Weak

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

The best example is ‘woke’. Pierre claims ‘woke’ is weak ideology of soft people: a woke military can’t possibly defend our borders; our students are falling behind because they’re learning woke instead of real skills; and our government is falling behind because it’s to busy following the woke agenda.

But somehow woke was strong and successful enough to infect everything our country does: university research, public service, and especially the military. A total takeover our government and it’s smartest intellectuals, most dedicated employees, and bravest defenders. The people who preach woke bested all of our soldiers, sailors, profesors, and civil servants.

So which is it: is woke soft loser ideas for weak people… or is woke the single strongest cultural shift ever devised? It can’t be both.

9. Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy

For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Pierre’s rhetoric around the ‘Lost Liberal Decade’, especially in regards to the military, is showing this dynamic.

The idea of the ‘Lost Liberal Decade’ is that the Liberals have been to passive, not doing enough, not living the constant struggle enough. The claim is that they have ruined our country, in this specific case ruining our military.

In a release titled “The Carney-Trudeau Liberals Failed our Armed Forces“ Pierre’s campaign says “This is more of the same promises with no plan and no action that Canadians have watched Liberals make and break throughout the lost Liberal decade.”

They claim the Liberals promised things, then broke those promises. The release finishes of: “with costs up and crime up, our economy down and under America’s thumb, with a more dangerous world in which the government has failed to keep Canadians safe“

This is the Armageddon complex, a decade of liberals doing things that Poilievre doesn’t consider valid as the stubble, and now Pierre says that everything is ruined. But he can bring it back, he promised everything you might want:

“a great life, in a beautiful house, on a safe Street, wrapped in the protective arms of a solid border, defended by brave Soldiers, under a proud flag.”

Pierre claims electing him solves the problems and delivers the “further era of peace, a Golden Age” but if you elect him will that actually happen, is that promise physically possible? Or will he need to find a new apocalyptic crisis to solve?

10. Contempt for the Weak & Popular Elitism

Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

A friend pointed out that this is just Negging, a kind of backhanded compliment. Negging comes from pickup artists who desperately want romantic success with person they’re targeting, but think the person is too emotionally secure to stoop to the level of dating the pickup artist. Manipulation born out of insecurity.

Pierre is doing this every time he says “Canada First” in the same speech as he says “Lost Liberal Decade“.

Pierre says Canada is as strong country with a beautiful promise, he even says anyone form anywhere cna access that promise if they just work “hard enough”.

Poilievre has called modern Canada “…an embarrassment to all Canadians.“, he’s called us “a ridiculous clown show of chaos, and that screams weakness.” finishing off with “Everyone is laughing all around the world.“

If you elect him, Pierre promises you’ll have a “a great life, with a beautiful house, on a safe street, under our proud flag.“

Canada is strong and beautiful, but also a global embarrassment. But Pierre says you can stop being a global embarrassment by just working a bit harder and electing him, that’ll fix it all.

Pierre knows his success is not built on popular demand, but on dirty tricks. His success over Patric Brown was assured by paying a whistle blower’s legal fees, and the Indian and Sri Lankan governments at a minimum tried to thumb the scale in his favour.

11. Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero: Heroism is not exceptional, it is the ideological norm

In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Luckily for us we live in a relatively peaceful country, with very little weapons culture, and we currently arn’t at war, so our image of heroism is a little different that the American image we all know from movies, or the Italian heroic image that Umberto Eco would have grown up with.

After consulting with freinds I think this symptom is showing in how the middle class is being led to believe their personal hard work and sacrifice can radically redirect the country.

Pierre’s ads and speeches love to say “That hard work gets you a great life, in a beautiful house, on a safe Street, wrapped in the protective arms of a solid border, defended by brave Soldiers, under a proud flag.”

“Hard work” is the action that you can take at home, and it’s the supposed foundation of the utopian promises that Pierre is telling to you.

To quote a friend who’s family members have bought into this world view: “Pierre wants middle class people to think that they’ll turn the country around if everyone helps them they fix everything through noble sacrifice.”

12. Machismo: Disdain for women and non-standard sexuality & the fetishization of weapons

Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Disdain for Women

Pierre Poilievre has a almost incel view of women and gender roles. Only a few days ago he loudly proclaimed: “We will not forget that 36-year-old couple whose biological clock is running out faster than they can afford to buy a home and have kids.”

Just a few years ago Poilievre was caught directly targeting Incels with his paid promotion on YouTube using hidden tags to target Canadian misogynist.

For added context, misogynistic violence is a particular highlight of Canadian extremism. From the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre to the 2018 Toronto van attack, the worst violence most Canadians are familiar with is bright by the movement Pierre is courting.

Non Standard Sexuality

Pierre insists he only recognizes two genders, while darling the interviewer to name any others. I think it’s fair to characterize parts of that interview as snide and disdainful. The combative energy and eventual dodge away from questions on a very relevant and real policy issue is disturbing.

Pierre and his Conservative Party has an obsessive focus on protecting cis Women from the threat of trans Women, but identify trans Men as a threat to cis Men.

Fetishization of Weapons

I don’t think Poilievre fetishizes firearms, like trump, his interest seems to be in the strength of military machines.

Pierre has promised he will bring back banned handguns, “assault style” weapons, and scrap the gun buyback program, in an interview with gun rights activist Guy Morin Pierre points out that he repeatedly voted agains gun control bills C-21 and C-71. In the interview he specifies his dislike for the national handgun freeze (C-21), If you search C-21 or C-71 on www.conservative.ca/news it will not bring up any pages. Searching for gun or gun buy back will bring up unrelated pages criticizing the liberals, but none about the promises that he has made.

But Pierre loves talking about military weapons and platforms, and the imagery of the military using them. In his Canada First ad he uses soaring transformers-esque music played over video and audio of a CF-18.

Poilievre’s military plans largely focus on the new machinery we will build and acquire, he has promised: two new lethally armed icebreakers, an unspecified fleet of AWACS, new unspecified tactical helicopters, “advanced” air to air missiles, and air to air refuelling aircraft.

Pierre’s plans also specifically include the two ice breakers, 88 F-35As (originally ordered under Harper), and 16 Poseidon P-8A that the Liberal government have already purchased. Though he doesn’t mention the Liberal government as the source, while highlighting the Harper government and including these machine sin his tale.

13. Selective Populism: the Leader pretends to be the interpreter of the peoples will.

Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view — one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples” — “maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Common Sense Conservatives

Common Sense is convenient, it is obvious, needs no study, and definitely needs no polling or voting. It’s what everyone thinks, or at least everyone worth listing to, after all it is called Common sense. It’s telling that Pierre so often invokes Common Sense Conservatives in his vehicles and convoys, policy releases, speeches, and as a general go to slogan with a variety of minor variations.

Section 33

Pierre has promised to use Section 33, known as the Notwistanding clause, to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as existing Supreme Court rulings. He’s specifically planning to use Section 33 to force lifetime sentences without eligibility for parole.

Pierre specifically said “Parliament has the legitimate constitutional authority and the moral duty to correct this injustice and restore common-sense sentencing with no more discounts for multiple murderers,” combining both Section 33 as a means to overwrite Canadian law and opinion, as well as invoking Common Senes as a justification.

14. Newspeak

Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.

– Umberto Eco’s Ur- Fashism

Pierre is actually calling for the regulation of specific language, making this possibly the easiest to track down element of his fascistic ways. He plans to require “Plain language” specificaly saying that his “Plain Language Act will make government writing and thinking simpler and clearer. The new rule will be that ‘everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler,”

That statement it’s self would fail his new standard assuming it was only applied in the best of faith.

He further specified that the Act would create a “Plain Language Skill” requirement for new hires. That act itself seems like it could be reasonable, assuming that no one is currently putting effort into clear communication adding that focus would be beneficial.

” All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.” (Ur-fascism, Umberto Eco)

Unfortunately, Canada already has directives to ensure clear communication “clear, timely, accurate, accessible and written in plain language.” is mandated. Poilievre’s attacks on that specific directive combined with the Plain Language Act promise being his final policy proposal in his leadership run sujest that this is much more likely to effect Newspeak.

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“We must keep alert, so that the sense of these words will not be forgotten again. Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, “I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares.” Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances“……..”Freedom and liberation are an unending task.“
– Umberto Eco, emphasis mine.

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4. Laurence W. Britt‘s 14 Characteristics of Fascism

Keep in mind that there is much more criticism of this list and it has a complicated history of misuse and misinterpretation, Laurence Britt also gives us extra context to understand this list and his thinking behind it. When in doubt I personally refer to Umberto Eco.

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism

Pierre is running on the nationalist slogan Canada First. His adds feature swelling, almost transformers inspired, music played over the Canadian flag and military activities with the flag showing through uniforms and decals.

Some of this is expected for a national party running in a national election, but we can attempt to judge how much of their campaign presence is about nationalism versus how much of ti is about elements unique to their platform of their parties unique views.

Taking a quick look at their website, they seem to be mostly made of flags, to the point that they have almost as much red (normal the colour of their opposition, the Liberal party) as they do their own Conservative Blue. Almost all of that red comes from the flag they have plastered in every image.

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights

Pierre Poilievre constantly proposes ideas that not only ignore or act against human rights, he sometimes says things the subject he docent see everyone as being a human person.

Medical Consent

“Conservative government will give judges the power to mandate treatment for people struggling with severe addiction.” Forcing a treatment on a person is a horrifying barbaric and archaic idea, this is a policy that violates our laws: “Every resident has the right to give or refuse consent to any treatment, care or services for which their consent is required by law and to be informed of the consequences of giving or refusing consent.”

When it comes to vaccines, Pierre deeply cares about consent being a right saying “He divided, insulted and name-called millions of people right across this country who are patriotic, law-abiding, decent people”. So why docent he want drug users to have this human right? The implication seems to be: if Pierre Poiliever docent personally like what you did, you don’t qualify for human rights.

Parol and Life Sentences:

Poilievre is not only in favour of forcing life sentences specifying that he will undo the decisions of the Canadian Supreme Court. He specifically wants to use the Notwistandign Clause to bypass the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, making it impossible for some prisoners to ever be eligible for parole review.

These people don’t just walk free once a date hits as he insinuates, they are given a chance to prove that they are safe for release, and to ease back into society. The parole system is so consistently safe that 99 % have not committed a new violent offence while on parole.

Women:

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative do not support the right to abortion.

The Guardian reported in 2023 that “Canada has zero pro-choice Conservative MPs, watchdog says”

In 2019 the house had a standing ovation in support of affirming women’s right, all conservative stayed seated. It’s hard to tell, but I think you can actual see Pierre Poilievre sting though this in the GlobalNews video.

When commenting on economic factor like housing and inflation Poiliever can’t stop talking about women in terms of “Biological Clocks” first and foremost. A view that seems to skip past their humanity and look at them more like a machine or factory.

As discussed above, Pierre’s campaign spent more than four years directly targeting the misogynist #MGTOW movement on YouTube.

3. Identification of enemies/scape-goats as a unifying cause

The Nazis didn’t hate Jewish people merely because they where Jewish. Germany had a rough economic situation and the Nazis could point at Jewish communities, less than 1% of the population, as a scapegoat for the economic strife. Most people wouldn’t know a Jewish person, christians had lots of anti-jewish tropes and stereotypes already passed down to them, Jewish people where an easy target.

If you are experiencing a real problem, and someone points at an ethnic, gender, or sexual minority group as the source or cause, that is the exact thing the Nazi’s did in the 1930s.

A scapegoat is often a small population without any tangible power or control, they are blamed for large scale and challenging government issues as an easy solution instead of looking at the actual causes and solutions that would be less catchy than shouting “Deport that group!” or “We need to ban this group.”

Building policy on scapegoating means you hurt innocent people, but you also don’t solve the problem. Once the group is gone, and the problem remains, you need another group to blame. This is the point of the First They Came For poem form WW2. This dynamic is one of the very tangible signs that people like to call the “slow creep of fascism”.

Trans People:

Pierre and his Conservative Party repeatedly blame issues of women’s safety after on a tiny minority of trans Women.

In 2021 only 0.19% of the Canadian population is trans. That account for Trans Men and Trans women, there are so few of them that it is implausible for them to pose the threat that Pierre Poilievre alleges.

Woke Military

Pierre claims our military culture is to ‘woke’ and wants to restore the ‘warrior culture’ he believes we should have. Pierre’s campaign has avoided defining what ‘woke’ s or what ‘warrior culture’ is.

This is a scape goat, beyond its lack of specificity, recruiting is down in Canada and in other allied countries like the US. It’s also very possible that the ‘warriors’ Pierre wants are busy as some of the 550-ish volunteers in Ukraine where there is an actual defensive war going on.

Islamophobia & ANti Palestinian Hate:

The conservative party has targeted muslim people for decades, Pierre Poilievre continues this tradition in how he has recent events around Palestine. He has repeatedly called marches again the genocide in Gaza “Hate Marches“ Pierre has gone so far as to call Palestinians “Terrorist Networks”.

This misrepresentation of anti-genocode movements, and Palestinian solidarity movements as a network of dangerous Terrorists is islamaphbics, putting innocent Canadians in the firing line of Terrorism enforcement and the extreme tactics we use once people are labeled as terroists.

“Conflating anti-Semitism with criticism of a modern apartheid state is dangerous historical revisionism. It ignores the fact that since the conception of Zionism, there has always existed strong and diverse Jewish opposition to it. For decades, progressive Jewish movements have held Zionism to be a dangerous form of nationalism, with some Holocaust survivors openly denouncing Zionist policies.”

• Lela Tolajian, founder of the International Coalition Against Modern Slavery, in Aljazeera

Poilievre has gone further recently announcing that he plans to deport people who take part in protests he deems to be criminal, focusing on anti palestinian genociede protestors.

Immigrants:

Pierre Poilievre frequently blames immigrants for our housing market, and for our job market.

But what would stopping immigrants do? Part of our housing problem is to few construction workers, and a lot of our construction industry relies on immigrants.

Looking into the cost of housing, it seems untethered from immigration. As the Bulwark points out, housing costs are rising by much more than immigration rates are.

According to experts, the housing troubles across Canada are mostly the fallout of Covid’s impact on the construction industry and the chaotic web of interdependent systems all trying to catch up. Add in the price gouging and landlords buying up housing, and you have a giant complicated mess that all parties want to blame on a the simple immigration lie.

Gunderson and his co-author argued that beyond immigration, unaffordability is exacerbated by factors like the financialization of the housing market, a dearth of affordable and social housing, extended timelines for housing development due to regulation and planning-related bureaucracy, spikes and troughs in interest rates and financing, NIMBYism, and a stagnant, under-equipped construction sector still grappling with the aftermath of COVID-era disruptions.

Additional research has shown that the country’s rental housing stock is being financialized—turned into a means of profit for shareholders—at a rate far greater than it’s being developed. While the luxury condo market has boomed, affordable housing development has stagnated since the ‘90s. And any existing residential development is riddled with months of delays, costing homeowners thousands.

– The Local: In Ontario’s Housing Crisis, Immigrants Are the Scapegoat and the Solution

Antisemetism

It is worth noting that Pierre Poilievre says a lot of things that echo of historical anti-semitism.

Poilievre will talk about how Canada needs to be strong and “Not a nation of tax collectors and toll masters.”, he has rallied against the “Global Elites”, and he talks about banning ministers form attending the World Economic Forum in Davos.

These are dogwhistles have historically been used to signal conspiracies about Jewish control over the economy or government, and even specific industries. These are the terms that modern and historical Nazis used in their propaganda. This docent make Pierre Poilievre a Nazi, but this language can drive more people into conspiracies that are antisemitic.

4. The supremacy of the military/ avid militarism

Woke and Warriors

Pierre claims our military culture is to ‘woke’ and wants to restore the ‘warrior culture’ he believes we should have. Pierre’s campaign has avoided defining what ‘woke’ s or what ‘warrior culture’ is.

In a Sun News interview Pierre revealed his focus on a “Clarion Call for young people”, and when pushed on substantial claims he blames “Woke” and “the NDP”. He then agrees with the interviewer that British songs from the 1700s are an important part of independent Canadian culture.

While Poilliever insists on a Warrior Culture without giving a definition, it’s good to see wha other nations that push that idea of Woke vs. Warrior end up with:

The term we use for this performative ‘warrior culture’ is Potemkin Army. A hollow fake army that looks trades looking mean for being able to effectively fight. In foreign military propaganda you can watch ‘Special Forces’ do back flips and wrestle shirtless in the snow… like real ‘warriors’. As military commentator and US veteran Ryan McBeth points out “these potamkin videos really only impress the kind of people who don’t know how the military works in the first place.”

The Russian has pursued the same anti-woke warrior culture that Pierre insists we need: When they invaded Ukraine the entire 3 day plan fell through, leading to the current 3 year war. The first attacks, using the most well trained a fearsome Russian warrior forces like the VDV where repulse over a matter of hours by under equipped local forces and individual civilians with pickle jars. After a year of fighting they had suffered 87% loss of their entire original army.

North Korea’s military has also been deployed in Ukraine, suffering 27-36% losses in the first half year of combat.

There is a reason the Warrior armies fail repeatedly, it focuses on the ‘Tip of the spear’ people fighting. But forgets the 95% of logistics and support that make a military functional. If you don’t have a great delivery driver and a desk jockey to buy the weapons, then your best warrior is stuck with hand to hand combat.

Pierre Poilievre’s of Woke vs. Warrior rhetoric is at best virtu signalling, and at worst would gut our already lowerred military effectiveness.

“My own military experience is 60 years in the past, but my army-issue bullshit detector still works just fine. “Warrior culture” is bullshit, and especially in Canada.”

– Crawford Kilian, US Veteran and contributing editor of The Tyee

Arctic

Pierre didn’t serve in the military, but he loves to use its imagery in his ads and plans to increase our military budget by cutting foreign aid. Directly decreasing our international soft power to increase our hard power at home and in the arctic. (In fairness, the arctic is a contested environment with unique defence needs. Stronger defence up there is probably somewhere from fine-good for the country, cutting foreign aid to do it bigger and faster is probably a bad idea though)

Despite our current existing sovereignty, Pierre insisted that the only way to be sovereign is to vote for his militarization plan.

5. Rampant sexism

Viewing women as inherently vulnerable to men

The conservative party under Pierre has an obsessive focus on protecting cis Women from the threat of trans Women, but identify trans Men as a threat to cis Men. This pretty strongly implies that they see women as inherently vulnerable.

Women in construction

On April 10th Pierre Poilievre seemed to forget that women work in construction during a press conference. As is seen at 9:48 in the CPAC recording Pierre says:

“I won’t speak for them, but I would imagine many of these gentlemen here.”
He turns towards a line of construction workers in PPE, turns back to the podium, then seems to do a double take. Pierre quickly tuns back to the workers.
“Many of these ladies and gentlemen here.”

6. A controlled mass media

Poilievre has gone after journalists and media for several years. His largest target has been the CBC though he also groups in the Toronto Star and the Canadian Press in ads and statements, his policy focuses squarely on defunding the CBC.

Poilierver’s attacks on “Trudeau media allies“ fall short of his other nationalistic campaigning, with almost no criticism of internationally held news media. In Canada our most notable international held media conglomerate is Postmedia, and American controlled news parent company.

Postmedia has spent the last several years solidifying its grip on Canadian news. A current review of their own website claims they hold 130+ news sources across Canada. And they have acquired at least 310 outlets in the past.

Postmedia has a strong conservative lean, and was a core player in the Harper administrations 2007 push for international media ownership. Founded under the name CanWest Global Communications Inc. by Izzy Asper. The Apser’s and CanWest proceeded to have tight relationship with Conservative politicians, nominating prolific Conservative Party strategist Derek Burney to the CanWest chairman position, Harper using CanWest corporate helicopters to avoid Toronto traffic, and fundraising for the Conservative campaign.

To this day Postmedia controlled outlets have a massive conservative lean, around 2015 at the National Post “editors were told the paper had to become more reliable in its conservative politics”. One employee said ““Postmedia sees its market niche as being the only mainstream conservative media outlet in the country”. Apparently around this time Jordan Peterson, began working in secret in the Postmedia offices.

Postmedia has been both accused of and confirmed as forcing conservative endorsements from their newspapers.

With Pierre Poilievre’s insistence on Canada First, strong Sovereign power, and trade within our own borders, it seems indicative that Poilievere hasn’t attacked the foreign owned Postmedia.

It seems like there might be a relationship, where conservative interest have near absolute control over the Canadian Media.

7. Obsession with national security

Poiliever rallies on a stong secure nation, while refusing to get his security clearance. He very literally does not know how secure Canada is because it would be illegal for anyone to tell him, a situation he can fix at any time.

Poiliever has promised “a solid border, defended by brave Soldiers, under a proud flag.” in ads, and a promise to “rebuild our borders”, and his platform incudes an expansion of our military with a focus on securing the arctic.

Internally he refers to peaceful protest a hate-marches and “Terrorist Networks”, promising he will resort security by deporting non-citizens who take part in these protests.

8. Religion and ruling elite tied together

“Evangelicals at the elite level are a really important part of the conservative infrastructure,” Bean said. “So if you look at his own mentors, people like Stockwell Day [and] Preston Manning, [Poilievre] is not himself an evangelical, but he’s surrounded by people who are.

Global News: In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians

Pierre seems to be christian, does not seem to attend church for personal reasons. He was raised Roman Catholic, and often invokes god in his speeches.

Pierre has made a point of using local churches in his campaing, sometimes stoping at 3 churches in one day.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic he has used religious freedom and sentiment of prosecution appeal to many Canadian christians.

In a live streamed church speech he connected ideas of freedom to choose with parents fear around their children’s sexuality and gender.

9. Power of corporations protected

DeSmog mapped Pierre Poilievre’s ties to corporate interest in a handy interactive guide.

In 2014 conservatives, with Pierre Poilievre as Minister of State for Democratic Reform, protected CanWesr Global Communications Inc. from foreign ownership regulation.

Poilievre will foten propose a solution to a working class problem, but with the end result of inceeasing poer for large corporations. A perfect example is his new plan to cut housing taxes by as much a $100,000.00 , except that this discount is maximized on new homes in the million dollar range. As Steve Boots put it, this is a “Buy 4 houses, get one free” style discount for corporate landlords.

10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated

Pierre Poilievre is anti-labour, in his campaign he has visited have visited many unions, but I couldn’t find an example of him supporting a strike or visiting a picket line. Unions across Canada have come out against Pierre Poilievre:

• United Steel Workers: United Steelworkers union call out Pierre Poilievre’s misleading attack on Pharmacare
• CUPE: Pierre Poilievre: in it for banks, billionaires, and big polluters – not for you
• Canadian Labour Congress: Poilievre and the Conservatives can’t be trusted to stand up for workers
• CUPE: Pierre Poilievre has been an MP for a long time — so long, in fact, he was only 31 when he qualified for his MP pension, worth an estimated $120,000 per year.
• Union of Taxation Employees: Response to Pierre Poilievre Regarding Tax Collectors
• PSAC-AFPC: PSAC denounces election pledges to defund equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s public service
• Alberta Labour Congress: Pierre Poilievre’s Union Policy Will Pulverize Paycheques
• Nova Scotia Federation of Labour: Statement on Pierre Poilievre party and the Right to Work policy
• Hosiptal Employees Union: HEU calls on Pierre Poilièvre to come clean on Conservatives’ plan for health care
• CAUT alarmed by Conservative Party platform on research funding

Poilievre’s campaign has tried to inflate their union endorsements by including employers associations like the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada.

Historically Pierre has been anti-union, attempting to bring America style “Right-to-work” legislation into Canada in 2012. This style of legislation was created to weaken unions through removing membership.

In a telling 2020 incident, Pierre overestimated the salary of a waiters by more than 200%. He argued that a waitress probably made $60,000.00 a year, when the actually average for that area was $21,175.00 per year.

11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts

Woke

Poilievre has promised to take away funding from scientific research he deems woke, though he did not layout what Woke means in a research context. Past conservative Prime Ministers have attacked scientific reaserch with gag orders and shutting down entire labs to stop evidence from being released. Currently the Untied States has purged funding from significant medical studies due to keywords that Elon Musk’s team deemed Woke.

In his Quebec Platform speech, Pierre made it clear that he will go after research funding.

Arts

Poilievre’s campaign is vague on arts and culture, except in the case of the CBC.

Former Conservative Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore said “Because there’s this din and this quiet and the only thing that gets said is ‘defund the CBC,’ then you say, ‘well, it must tumble down,’”

It seems like conservative insiders are struggling with this void in Pierre’s policy. There sent much to say expect point at a big hole in the campaign and wondering what will fill it if Pierre is elected. If we go by his stance on the CBC as James Moore mentioned, then it’s probably going to bad?

12. Obsession with crime and punishment

Pierre’s has cast himself as a tough on crime politician. Pushing for life sentences without parole, forced medical intervention for drug addicts, implementing a new 3 strike policy on some offences, and increasing the punishment for headline crimes such as car theft. Poilievre says he will use the Notwithstanding clause, Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to override your rights and temporarily pass harsher sentencing. This would override your rights and our own supreme court’s ruling.

These are almost all unconstitutional, violat our civil and human rights, and mostly borrowed from failed United States laws of the last few decades. Three Strikes laws have actually increased homicides in the US. The Bind pointed out that under Three Strikes systems ” a person committing a crime may be more likely to kill the victim — or any witnesses — if there’s a likelihood of being identified, and if they are facing a life sentence due to the three-strikes law anyway.“

Numerous studies have shown that increased prison time has, at best, “No Effect” but does cost significantly more to taxpayers. As that meta-analyses concludes, we would be “embracing a policy, with substantial economic and social costs, that has no demonstrable effects on reoffending.”

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption

Corruption is a hard thing to nail down, sometimes it’s totally legal, sometimes it’s illegal and hidden. I can point at how Pierre Poilievre has crossed lines that his own policy proposal might view as corruption. But there’s no smoking gun that I have found.

It might be more prudent to look at the conservative context, a history of actions that seem more blatantly corrupt:

Pierre was largely silent when his Progressive Conservative Party counterparts were embroiled in the 8.3 Billion dollar Greenbelt land scandal. One of the largest corruption cases in Canadian history, featuring paper envelopes of money, multiple investigations, and Conservative MPPs stepping down from their posts.

The Apser’s and CanWest, now Postmedia, have had tight relationship with the Conservative Party, nominating prolific Conservative Party strategist Derek Burney to the CanWest chairman position, Harper using CanWest corporate helicopters to avoid Toronto traffic, and fundraising for the Conservative campaign.

The Poilievre campaign itself has many connection to financial influence that could be considered concerning.

While he was the Finance Critic in 2017, Pierre and his Girlfreind took a $21,600, later adjusted to $14,000.00, trip gifted to him by the Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, his reason: “learn how people and governments do things in other democratic countries so we can take the best ideas home.” CBC News did reach out to CIECA in Taiwan but did not receive an answer.

14. Fraudulent elections

Vote Suppression

During the 2011 election Conservatives spent at least 3 days calling to voters and giving them incorrect poling locations. The government eventually limited these calls, and a burner phone registered under a fake name “Pierre Poutine” continued to call voters with the wrong location to vote.

Conservatives seem to have targeted 10 confirmed ridings, with complaints made in as many as 234 ridings about fake voting location data coming from Conservative phone calls. Some of the calls claimed to be from the Conservative Party, while others claimed to be Form Elections Canada.

In the end 7 ridings felt they needed their election results overturned.

The blame, and conviction in court, was place on one Conservative Staffer from Guelph ridding, the only person held legal responsible for the massive vote suppression campaign. He maintained his complete innocence and felt that he was a scapegoat for a larger conspiracy.

The calls matched a database from the Conservative Party and there was testimony and IP adresses for several other staffer to potentially be involved with accessing the database.

Pierre Poilievre, who was the Minister of State for Democratic Reform at the time, said “I think it just confirms what I’ve been saying all along, which is that the Conservative Party ran an honest, ethical campaign and won the election legitimately with the support of Canadians,“

2022 Party leader Election

The 2022 Conservative leadership Race, won by Pierre Poilièvre, was initial supposed to have Patric Brown facing down with Pierre for party leadership. Unfortunately for Brown, his campaign was allegedly interfered with by both the support of the Poilievre campaign, and agents of the Indian government. Agents of the Indian government later fundraised for Poilievre’s campaign without the campaign’s awareness.

Poilievre’s alleged interference came in the form of legal bills, Patric Brown was disqualified after a wistleblower alleged that he had committed financial violations of the Canada Elections Act. It turned out that the whistleblowers legal bills where paid for by the Poilievre campaign.

Limiting votes

Pierre Poilievre has a long history of Election Fraud claims, in 2014 as minister of Democratic Reform repeatedly misinterpreted an official election report and Supreme Court Ruling to insinuate that Canadian elections had a large fraudulent voting problem, a claim the author of the report clarified was misinformation. Poilievre used this misinformation to push new voter ID requirements that could disenfranchise 100,000 legal voters. Canadian election irregularity is mostly administrative, making voter ID irrelevant as a solution.

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5. Parallels to Modern American Fascism

Mass Deportation

Poilievere has vowed to deport people who engage in “hate marches” and “vandalism”, a massive over reach that directly pulls from Donald Trumps deportation of immigrants who have been labeled as terroroists without verification, trial, or any due process.

Encouraging Violence at Rallies

A video from January shows Pierre Poilievre encouraging an attack on a protestor at one of his rallies. He quips “The liberals are getting desperate today aren’t they?” over the sound system.

Rallies at trump events have often ended up with violent attacks on counter protestors mid rally, and Donald Trump has shouting his support and encouragement. His pattern of supporting violent actions from his own supports is a long one detailed from 2017-21 by Axios and from 2015-24 by The Atlantic.

R.A.G.E

Pierre’s transition team plans to follow the same steps as Trumps day one assault on public service. Poilievere’s team traces the policy back to Ontario’s Mike Harris administration, but the version we are seeing play out right now south of the border traces to a Neo-Monarchism named Curtis Yarvin a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug. Yarvin is the creator of an ideology know as the Dark Enlightenment that seeks to destroy the Cathedral (government). His RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) has been disastrous in the US. Pushed by J.D. Vance and Elon Musk, step one is to purge the bureaucracy, traumatizing all remaining workers. This policy is identical to what Poiliever transition team insiders describe.

EMbrace of the Militia/Patriot Movement

Pierre Poilievre has been courting veterans for a long time, but since the start of the Pandemic he has leaned into being seen with ‘True Patriots’ veterans and activist who lean far right and live in the world of Christian nationalism, Nazism, and White supremacy.

Further more, the Conservatives seems to have many members who seek these far right groups, often posing for pictures. Even assuming a level of happenstance, there seem to be more run-ins with Neo-nazis in the Conservative Party than there ever should be.

ProNatalism

As discussed above, Pierre cannot help but invoke having children and biological clocks when he talks publicly about housing and affordability. The US has had a growing pronatalist movement, Elon Musk is emblematic of their influence. But J.D. Vance also subscribes to these ideas, and talks almost identically to Pierre Poilievre when he brings it up. It has the same creepy vibe of someone looking at an asset instead of a person.

Pierre Poilievre (leader of the conservative party) is obsessed with women's "biological clocks"

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— The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) April 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Alex Jones Support

Alex Jones endorsed Pierre Poilievre in 2024, praising his similar perspective and policy prescriptions:

Poilievre’s team has made statements to distanced themselves from Alex Jones, but the shared beliefs are bit scary. Both Jones and Poilievre believe that the World Economic Forum is part of a Globalist Elites conspiracy theory tied to the new world order. They also share similar stances on Climate Change, Covid-19, Covid-19 Vaccines, Lockdowns, Minorities and Violent Crime, funding Police for more drastic responses to crime, drastically increasing punishment for both detained people and convicted criminals, etc. Once you start digging into their beliefs it’s almost hard to find things they disagree on.

In 2015 Alex endorsed trump, comparing Trump to George Washington. Trump leaned in, talking multiple times on air with Alex.

One key difference is that the Poilievre campaign avoided connecting with Jones instead of leaning in like Trump did. Though having the wisdom to avoid Alex doesn’t change the things about Pierre Poilievre that drew in the Jones endorsement in the first place. The amount of conspiracies that Poilievre talks about publicly, might be higher than the amount of conspiracies that Trump believes in.

BONUS: Pierre Poilievre has been endorsed by many more of these extreme right wing influencers, you can read more in CultMTL!

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6. Final Thoughts

To be honest, Im a little shocked at how severe the fascist situation with Poilievre is. The Alex Jones style stuff is a lot more significant than I had thought before. His holocaust revisionism was shocking, that kind of thing is often really looked down on in ‘normal’ conversation and I think I thoroughly underestimated him, assuming a milktoast kind of fascist.

Pierre Poilievre is a distinct Fascist, if I had to draw a comparison to other ones I believe he is more like J.D. Vance than anyone like Hitler, Mussolini , or even Trump. Vance and Poilievre share a very creepy affect, and feeling of deep insecurity. But Pierre doesn’t seem to have the same interest in guns, shooting and “Freedom Seeds” as Vance does. I think Pierre does much better job of seeming ‘normal’ or ‘less weird’ than Vance could hope to achieve. These fascists are each their own person with their own brand of fascist thought.

I truly hope we don’t ever have to see a world with Pierre and the Trump/Vance administrations at the same time, the human suffering would probably be immense.

So, yes. After digging into his views, his promises, and his history: I think that Pierre Poilievre is a fascist politician.

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• The Wall Street Journal: Russia Has Lost Almost 90% of Its Prewar Army, U.S. Intelligence Says
• The Korea Herald: Interview: NIS tally of North Koreans killed or injured in Ukraine war rises over 4,000
• The Tyee: ‘Woke’ vs. ‘Warrior’? Poilievre Aims, Shoots and Misses
• Conservative Party: Poilievre’s Part I of “Canada First Plan” To Take Back Control Of Arctic
• Maclean’s: Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: The Military
• Conservative Party: Poilievre’s Part I of “Canada First Plan” To Take Back Control Of Arctic
• Andrew Lawton, Conservative Party: Conservatives Launch Part II of the Canada First Arctic Defence Plan
• Conservative Party: Conservative Party Of Canada Policy Declaration
• CPAC: Pierre Poilievre Campaigns on Housing in Milton, Ont. – April 10, 2025
• CBC News: What, if anything, should voters make of Pierre Poilievre’s attitude toward journalists?
• The Brandon Sun: Poilievre’s anti-media rhetoric is divisive posturing
• Conservative Party: STOP funding Trudeau’s media allies with taxpayers’ dollars
• Conservative Party: STOP funding Trudeau’s media allies with taxpayers’ dollars
• Postmedia: Our Brands
• City News: Timeline of Postmedia empire’s inception, growth and struggles
• The Tyee: Aspers and Harper, A Toried Love
• CanadaLand: You Must Be This Conservative To Ride: The Inside Story of Postmedia’s Right Turn
• Some More News: A Brief Look at Jordan Peterson
• CanadaLand: Postmedia Told Edmonton Journal to Endorse Jim Prentice, Says Edmonton Journal
• The Tyee: Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia’s Election Endorsements?
• The Maple:L Documenting The Past 40 Years Of Media Election Endorsements
• The Walrus: Poilievre’s Refusal to Get Security Clearance Raises Questions about His Readiness to Govern
• Conservative Party: Poilievre’s Part I of “Canada First Plan” To Take Back Control Of Arctic
• Conservative Party: Mark Carney Must Answer for Genocide Comments
• Maclean’s: Is Islamophobia Resurfacing in Canada?
• Conservative Party: Canada First—For A Change
• Global News: In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians
• Broadview: What 4 major party leaders have said about their faith
• Canadian Affairs: A look at religion in Carney, Poilievre, Singh and May’s lives
• The Tyee: The Churches of Pierre Poilievre
• Global News: In groundbreaking move, Poilievre campaigns among evangelical Christians
• Faith For Miracles | Family Life Centre: June 30th, 2024
• DeSmog: Poilievre Mapped: His Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Right-wing Activists
• Conservative Party: Poilievre Announces Plan To Cut Taxes By $100,000 Per Home
• Steve Boots: Pierre Poilievre’s Incredibly Concerning Press Conference
• National Post: Poilievre is going all-in on his pro-worker message with appeals to ‘ordinary people’
• Toronto Star: Pierre Poilievre slammed by Canada’s top labour leader: ‘Have you ever, ever, anywhere in Canada seen him walk the picket line?’
• United Steel Workers: United Steelworkers union call out Pierre Poilievre’s misleading attack on Pharmacare
• CUPE: Pierre Poilievre: in it for banks, billionaires, and big polluters – not for you
• Canadian Labour Congress: Poilievre and the Conservatives can’t be trusted to stand up for workers
• CUPE: Pierre Poilievre has been an MP for a long time — so long, in fact, he was only 31 when he qualified for his MP pension, worth an estimated $120,000 per year.
• Union of Taxation Employees: Response to Pierre Poilievre Regarding Tax Collectors
• PSAC-AFPC: PSAC denounces election pledges to defund equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s public service
• Alberta Labour Congress: Pierre Poilievre’s Union Policy Will Pulverize Paycheques
• Nova Scotia Federation of Labour: Statement on Pierre Poilievre party and the Right to Work policy
• Hosiptal Employees Union: HEU calls on Pierre Poilièvre to come clean on Conservatives’ plan for health care
• Archive: CAUT alarmed by Conservative Party platform on research funding
• The Tyee: Poilievre’s Bid to Woo the Union Vote Is Hitting Snags
• Rabble: Poilievre says he supports workers, but not when they’re on the picket line
• Hamilton Spectator: TIM HARPER: Pierre Poilievre wants to bring right-to-work legislation to Canada
• Dissent: The Ugly Racial History of “Right to Work”
• Globe and Mail: Pierre Poilievre, the class tourist who didn’t read the guidebook
• The Gazette: Poilievre unveils Quebec platform, promises to respect province’s autonomy
• Academic Matters: Harper’s attack on science: No science, no evidence, no truth, no democracy
• Fortune: DOGE shut the funding spigot for medical research overnight. Scientists are calling it ‘the end of science’ in America
• CNN Buisness: Why those reports of DOGE using AI have experts worried about ‘massive risk’
• Policy Options: Voters must not allow Poilievre to import Trump’s war on science
• The Wire Report: Former Conservative Heritage Minister urges Tories to recognize importance of creative sector, CBC
• CBC News: Poilievre tries to draw voter attention to violent crime as Trump concerns dominate
• Conservatives: Conservatives Will Keep Our Streets Safe – For a Change
• CBC News: Poilievre says he’d pass a law that overrides a Charter right. That would be a first for a PM
• CTV News: Constitutional experts raise concerns with Conservative proposal to bypass Supreme Court ruling on consecutive sentences
• JSTOR: The Lethal Effects of Three‐Strikes Laws
• The Bind: Poilievre’s proposed ‘three-strikes’ law could increase homicides and cost a lot of money
• Perma Record: Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review
• Conservatives: Poilievre’s Plan Means Accountability For a Change
• CBC: A timeline of key events in Ontario’s Greenbelt controversy
• The Tyee: Aspers and Harper, A Toried Love
• CBC News: Canadian MPs accepted $620K worth of free travel from third parties, foreign entities in 2017
• Maclean’s: Canadian MPs and their extravagant gifts. Is this bribery?
• CTV News: Robocalls scandal: Timeline of events
• CBC News: Key facts in Canada’s robocalls controversy
• CBC News: Complaints about Tory calls began 3 days before polls opened
• CBC News: Conservative campaign worker Sona charged in robocall probe
• CBC News: Poilievre on robocalls report
• Toronto Star: Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign paid legal fees of whistleblower who took down rival Patrick Brown
• Toronto Star: Opinion | No wonder ruthless authoritarians are treating Canadians like a bunch of dim-witted lumberjacks
• CSIS Globe and Mail: CSIS alleges India organized support for Poilievre’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid
• CBC News: Agents of Indian government interfered in Patrick Brown’s Conservative leadership campaign: sources
• CTV News: Poilievre refutes claim he misinterpreted election report
• CBC News: Author of elections report cited by Poilievre contradicts minister on voter fraud
• The Globe and Mail: Fair Elections Act: Slow it down, Mr. Poilievre
• Canadian Affairs: Poilievre vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes
• The Times of Israel: Canada’s Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes
• Legal Eagle: Trump Defies Judge to Deport Venezuelans to Salvadoran Slave Jail
• Now Toronto: Pierre Poilievre cracks smile after heckler was thrown around like a rag doll at rally
• Inside Edition: Donald Trump Supporter Sucker Punches Protester While Being Escorted
• Associated Press: Raw: Protester Attacked at Trump Rally in Tucson
• NBC News: Trump Tells Crowd to ‘Knock the Crap’ Out of Tomato Throwers
• Axios: The times Trump has advocated for violence
• The Atlantic: A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks
• The American Prospect: Trump Trumps His War on the Administrative State
• Canadian Affairs: Poilievre vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes
• Times of Israel: Canada’s Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes
• LegalEagle: Trump Defies Judge to Deport Venezuelans to Salvadoran Slave Jail
• Now Toronto: Pierre Poilievre cracks smile after heckler was thrown around like a rag doll at rally
• Inside Edition: Donald Trump Supporter Sucker Punches Protester While Being Escorted
• Associated Press: Raw: Protester Attacked at Trump Rally in Tucson
• NBC News: Trump Tells Crowd to ‘Knock the Crap’ Out of Tomato Throwers
• The American Prospect: Trump Trumps His War on the Administrative State
• The Breach: ‘Hard and fast from every direction’: inside the group plotting Poilievre’s blitzkrieg of cuts
• Behind the Bastards: Part One: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance
• Behind the Bastards: Part Two: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance
• Time: What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement
• Shatter Zone: How The Federal Government Fell
• Press progress: Pierre Poilievre is Under Fire After Leading a Far-Right March Through Ottawa Residential Neighbourhood
• CBC News: Poilievre visits convoy camp, claims Trudeau is lying about ‘everything’
• Press Progress; Photo Shows Ontario MPP Randy Hillier With Flag of Group Linked to Armed ‘Freedom Convoy’ Plot
• The Tyee: Pierre Poilievre Keeps Talking about Women’s Biological Clocks. He Should Stop
• Fortune: Elon Musk and others urging people to have more kids are essentially calling for a Ponzi scheme, experts say
• Mother Jones: Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies
• Media Matters: On podcast for Project 2025 partner, JD Vance attacked journalists for being “miserable and unhappy” because their biological clocks have run out
• The Serfs: Pierre Poilievre is obsessed with women’s “biological clocks”
• Press progress: Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Insists Pierre Poilievre is ‘Saying The Same Things as Me’
• RGBAtlantica: Alex Jones on tape, endorsing Pierre Poilievre
• The Walrus: Welcome to the Poilievre Conspiracy Theory Vortex
• Press Progress: Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Insists Pierre Poilievre is ‘Saying The Same Things as Me’
• Pierre Poilievre: New Three Strikes, You’re Out Law
• FactPointVideo: Liberal ad ties Poilievre to U.S. conspiracy monger Alex Jones
• National Post: Michael Taube: Does it matter that Alex Jones endorsed Pierre Poilievre? Not in the slightest
• PBS: Alex Jones and Donald Trump: How the Candidate Echoed the Conspiracy Theorist on the Campaign Trail
• CultMTL: Pierre Poilievre has racked up endorsements from a who’s who of fascists, fraudsters and alt-right influencers