Poilievre compares Kelowna homeless encampment to “third-world country”
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A tweet by federal politician Pierre Poilievre included a video taken along the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna, featuring scores of homeless people living in tents.
Sunshine, lakes, golf and wine.
Ask any Western Canadian what the Okanagan is best known for, and most answers will be those four topics.
However, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre sent out a tweet on Tuesday morning comparing part of the region’s largest city, and its challenges with homelessness, to a third-world country.
“These images are not from a faraway third-world country,” said Poilievre. “This is Kelowna. After eight years of Trudeau and the NDP.”
The tweet included a 57-second video, taken along the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna’s north end, featuring scores of tents on the side of the road.
Poilievre didn’t record the video; rather, it came from a TikTok account that has just 11 videos, all of people experiencing homelessness, presumably in Kelowna.
Of the account’s first 10 videos, they had views ranging from 972 to 5,700. The last video, though, had 167,000 views on Tuesday afternoon.
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