Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accused the Liberals this week of allowing temporary foreign workers to “steal” jobs from Canadians, just days after he personally swiped a job from another Canadian.
On August 18th, Poilievre muscled into Battle River–Crowfoot, asking sitting MP Damien Kurek to step aside so he could parachute in and secure the safest Conservative seat in the country. Political observers noted the irony: railing against outsiders “taking jobs” while literally being the outsider taking a job.
“The Liberals are betraying Canadian workers,” Poilievre declared, moments after demonstrating that betraying one Canadian worker, Kurek, was perfectly acceptable when it advanced his career.
Economists, meanwhile, pointed out that most temporary foreign workers fill roles Canadians refuse to do, unlike Kurek, who presumably would have happily kept his. Still, Poilievre maintains his indignation, insisting the real threat isn’t hypocrisy, but people who pick fruit, serve coffee, and apparently work just a little too hard.
