What would be a good synonym for Pierre Poilievre?

Probably this:

Feel free to leave other synonyms, or anything else on your mind.

PS - RIP Tim Russert. I didn’t watch his show all that often, but I was aware of his importance on the American political reporting scene.  I was surprised to hear the news of his sudden passing.

With regards to the Bloc Quebecois Motion that stated more or less roughly in translation  asking “That this House express its complete confidence in Elections Canada and the Federal Elections Commissioner”, the motion passed as expected, but the Conservatives apparently don’t share the sentiment, as they unbelievably voted against this. The final vote was 152 - 117, for those keeping track.

So I guess the question that needs to be asked is will the Conservatives boycott the next election?  I mean, they obviously think Elections Canada and its commissioner (the Conservative - appointed commissioner I might add) is unfair and biased against them, with the “in and out” ruling going against them, so  how can they participate in a biased election with an apparently biased federal agency?

I have a suggestion Conservatives: do a mass resignation now in protest, and let someone else be government.

UPDATE@6:21pm: Andrew Potter over at Macleans sarcastically wonders if its time to bring in the UN election observer teams, since the Conservative government apparently has no confidence in its federal agency that runs elections.

UPDATE 2@6:32pm: This is a headline that just thrills me to death to see: Harper Tories Vote Non-Confidence In Elections Canada. And the part of this newstory that amuses me to no end are these 2 parts:

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have refused to join in a parliamentary show of confidence in Elections Canada, the independent watchdog charged with ensuring electoral fairness and honesty..The organization also trains election officials around the world and has monitored contentious votes in places like Haiti, Iraq and Ukraine.

The implication being that Haiti, Iraq and the Ukraine and other countries trusts Elections Canada to be fair, but our own Canadian government doesn’t. OUCH!

This originally got shown first at CalgaryGrit, but I think it’s so good that I’m going to reproduce it over here to show that the secret plans of the Liberals to undermine the Conservative Government has been exposed, and how they’re doing it.

I expect to see Pierre Poilievre breathlessly release this at the next news conference he holds exposing this “conspiracy”.

Darren seems to think “Pipsqueak” Pierre Poilievre is the worse spokesperson the Cons. could choose to defend the “in-and-out” scandal enveloping them.

I think quite the opposite, or at least look at it from a different angle. He’s the best spokesperson us non-Cons could have thrown out there to try and spout off Cons talking points on the in-and-out issue.

I for one hope the PMO keeps sending him out there, because he certainly won’t be the one to put this fire out and/or convince people there’s some grand conspiracy between Elections Canada, the Liberals, the CBC, the Russians, the Mafia, the Martians, or whoever else they decide to blame - certainly not when he goes on to media shows like Don Newman’s show and utters the phrase “So what!” to what the Cons. did, when even certain Cons. candidates refused to do it or thought it smelled bad.

We should all be cheering at the top of our lungs:

“WE WANT PIERRE!”

UPDATE@9:00AM: A reader points me to the audio clip of Pierre on Charles Adler’s show as mentioned at Warren’s site, where he was made to look and sound foolish. More of this please. Keep sending him out there!

Did you know that Stephen Harper and his government believe in the principle of outsourcing jobs? At least, he believes in it when it’s to do with investigating the NAFTA-gate leaks that hurt Barack Obama’s campaign:

Harper said last month that Kevin Lynch, the government’s top civil servant, would mount an inquiry into the so-called NAFTA-gate disclosures that led to charges that Canada had interfered in the United States’ democratic process… But it has emerged that the Prime Minister allowed Lynch to pass the investigation on to a private Ottawa company, BMCI Investigations and Security Ltd. This unusual move, which was raised in the Commons by Liberal MP Navdeep Bains (Mississauga-Brampton South), was never announced by the government. And Myriam Massabki, spokesperson for Lynch’s Privy Council Office, refused to discuss it.

It’s very nice of Harper and Co. to pay someone on the public dime to do the investigation of this leak.  It’s about the only support offered to Ontario businesses by this government during the time it’s been in power.

Many Liberals suspect that the NDP and Conservatives are in an unholy yet informal alliance to try to totally obliterate the Liberals from the electoral map. Is this picture proof of that?

On the left is Christian Conservative. On the right is.. well.. you don’t really need me to tell you who that is, do you? Christian Con. isn’t even hiding from this picture - he’s actually proudly posting it at his site.

Now, I’m not a conspiracy theory person usually… but I wanna know what was said at this meeting of the minds