Even by his standards, it was a flashy, fear-mongering cavalcade of economic nonsense. For one thing, Poilievre based his claims on the research of academics Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, who had published a best-selling book making the case that large debts inevitably lead to economic catastrophe. Their work, widely cited in the post-2008 recession era, had been used to justify bruising austerity measures in Britain and the United States. For Poilievre, who was fond of statistical manipulation, this was perhaps a fitting choice: Ten years earlier, the research had been notoriously exposed for containing such egregious and elementary errors that it invalidated their entire thesis, and austerity economics with it.

— The Poilievre Project by Martin Lukacs (57%)