Good Talk -- He's Back: The New Old Pierre Poilievre
4/17/202653 min
Almost two months ago, Pierre Poilievre seemed to have rounded a corner. The "attack dog" politician became, or so it seemed, the friendly one, talking about respect and a time for unity. Well those days are gone, long gone, after a week where the old Poilievre seemed back in full force. Bruce and Chantal are back with their assessments of what all this means.
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First 90 secondsPeter Mansbridge· Host0:00
Are you ready for Good Talk? [upbeat music] And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson. It's your, uh, Good Talk Friday. And as we always say, we have lots to talk about. So let's get it started. You know, it was about six or seven weeks ago that Pierre Poilievre was on this program, and it looked all of a sudden like a new Pierre Poilievre. This was gonna be different kind of guy. He respected the Prime Minister. He wanted to find a way that all the parties could work together, uh, for the benefit of Canada. Um, and he seemed to turn a real corner as part of his kind of reinventing himself. Then this week comes along, and there have been a few hints of this in the last couple of weeks, but this week was quite something. It was like a new old Poi- Pierre Poilievre. A lot of the old tactics were back, and he was attacking the Prime Minister on the floor of the House of Commons, questioning his ability to do anything on the economic front. What training has he had? What did... You know, this is a guy who was a former governor of two different, um, uh, banks, national banks, you know, Bank of England,