C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@lastrobot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lastrobot</span></a></span> </p><p>Addressing in order of presentation...</p><p>Single-use plastics: a nothing issue that he hopes to use as a culture-war cudgel to distract from his position (or lack of one) on real issues. Exactly like Trump with his "make our toilets/showers/appliances great again" BS.</p><p>Accompanying media: can't have that. He can only deliver prepared remarks to reporters. If he has to speak extemporaneously, he immediately comes across as the creep that he is [1], and he might accidentally say something true about his policy ambitions which the public wouldn't like.</p><p>4 media questions: stamina. Lying is tiring.</p><p>Cherry-picking media: can't have a media that's actually calling you out on your BS, or asking difficult questions you don't want to address in public. Pick safe, domesticized media outlets.</p><p>[1] He's creepy in the same way J.D. Vance is. My standard analogy is he seems like the guy who hangs around in the gym parking lot to try to talk to that woman who wouldn't remove her headphones when he wanted to talk to her during her workout.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Poilevre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poilevre</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/creep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creep</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TrumpLite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLite</span></a></p>