Voices Leave Impressions

[dewline]

I just had a thought about what Poilievre's voice makes me think of: school principals who used the strap to punish kids. Whether they were actually getting out of hand or something else was going on.

His tone - every time I hear his voice - puts me in mind of someone who was born too late to be one of those school principals, knows it, and wants revenge for that fact of birth timing.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

EWWWW

[dewline]

Yeah. Exactly. Something for a horror novel, right?

[pauamma]

*growl*

[blogcutter]

Hmm, your revenge theory is interesting, but is Poilievre even old enough to have been a VICTIM of one of those school principals? Apparently he was born in June 1979, and I thought most Canadian schools has gotten rid of the strap by the 1980s, which is presumably when he would have started school.

[dewline]

He was raised in Alberta, and I'm not sure of the historical order in which the practice was abolished in the various provinces.

It's a messy bit of historical research, and these articles go into some of how that's so:

https://www.edcan.ca/articles/banning-the-strap-the-end-of-corporal-punishment-in-canadian-schools/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spanking-in-canada-a-timeline-1.795384

(And the thought that he was born the year Diefenbaker died, the start of my last year of primary schooling, has its own effect on my thinking.)

[cmcmck]

The strap (tawse) was a Scottish thing here. Down south they used the cane.

[dianora]

His voice makes me cringe. I can't stand it not sure how blogcutter can tune it out so easily.