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Pierre Poilievre is a Canadian politician and the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada since 2022. He has been a member of Parliament since 2004 and served in various roles under former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Sep 11, 2022 · Pierre Poilievre has never been a shrinking violet. But he has declared himself even more loudly over the last seven months.
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While he was president of the University of Calgary’s conservative club, Poilievre called Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark a failed leader with “a record of attacking young people who are interested in new ideas,” for his rejection of the Unite the Right movement. His position threw him into conflict with the national Tory youth president ...
He was a key player in the campaign to draft former Alberta Cabinet minister Stockwell Day to seek the leadership of the nascent Canadian Alliance, successor to the Reform Party. He launched a website for Day in 2000, long before an online presence was a given, and said the 50-year-old had a “youthful appeal” in contrast to “Jurassic Clark and Anci...
In 2002, when Chrétien announced he would resign after more than a decade as prime minister, Poilievre and future far-right Rebel News co-founder Ezra Levant wrote an op-ed. “The logjam of Canadian politics has broken, and with it comes a rare opportunity for a political coalition on the right,” they declared. Stephen Harper had just succeeded Day ...
After following Day to Ottawa to work as his assistant, Poilievre won his first election for the Conservatives in 2004, in the suburban-rural riding of Nepean-Carleton, where he unseated a Liberal Cabinet minister. “I told [my parents] that I expected to lose because I didn’t want them to be disappointed if I did,” he later told the Ottawa Citizen....
On the eve of his first session in the House of Commons, Poilievre expressed confidence. “I feel completely prepared for this job — I don’t feel lacking in any area,” he told the National Post. He launched a website shortly after his election, called www.fightingforyou.ca, where he boasted he’d been named “one of Ottawa Life Magazine’s Top 50 Peopl...
On Jan. 23, 2006, he was reelected as Harper won his first minority Conservative government. “Do you want someone who will fight for you,” he said on the campaign, “or do you want a Liberal lapdog who will take orders from the party boss?” A few months later, Poilievre was caught saying “fuck you guys” to fellow MPs in a committee meeting and givin...
In a 2006 op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen, he claimed there are two Ottawas: “The one made up of the hoity-toity chattering class of special interest groups and lobbyists” that has “a disproportionately loud voice in the media” and the “real Ottawa” made of “real people” he claimed to represent. At the time, he was working to pass the Federal Accountab...
He voted for a Conservative motion in December 2006 to repeal Canada’s same-sex marriage law. The motion was defeated, 175-123, and Poilievre has recently said he considers same-sex marriage “a success.” In 2012, he would vote for a motion to study whether a fetus is a human being before birth. That motion was also defeated, 203-91, and Poilievre n...
In June 2008, hours before Harper was to deliver an apology for Canada’s residential schools, Poilievre went on local radioand questioned the accompanying compensation package for Indigenous survivors. “Are we really getting value for all of this money?” he asked. “My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and sel...
During the Conservatives’ “in-and-out” election spending scandal in 2008, Poilievre cast doubt on the impartiality of Elections Canada, saying it had “unleashed the dogs of war over a very minor disagreement.” He would later dismiss the affair as an “accounting dispute.” It wasn’t the last time he would take aim at the nonpartisan agency — in 2014,...
Learn 43 things about Pierre Poilievre, the 43-year-old populist who won the leadership of Canada's opposition Conservatives in 2022. From his childhood in Calgary to his rise as Stephen Harper's attack dog, here is his political journey in his own words.
2 days ago · Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tabled a non-confidence motion in the House of Commons on Thursday — less than 24 hours after the last one failed.. This latest attempt to bring down the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Vox analyzes the rise of Pierre Poilievre, a populist Conservative leader who champions the trucker convoy and attacks Trudeau. Learn how Poilievre differs from the European far right on immigration and authoritarianism, but shares their anti-elite rhetoric.
Sep 18, 2023 · Pierre Poilievre, a 44-year-old populist and moderate, is the favorite to win the next election and defeat Justin Trudeau, according to polls. He connects with voters by promising to lower taxes, cut red tape, and build more homes amid post-pandemic anxiety.
Apr 30, 2024 · Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was ejected from Canada's House of Commons after fiery exchanges with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Mr Poilievre's removal came...
