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Pierre Marcel Poilievre PC MP (/ ˌ p ɔː l i ˈ ɛ v / PAW-lee-EV; born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition since 2022.
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In his second year as an international relations student at the University of Calgary, he was a finalist in the 1999 “As Prime Minister, I Would …” essay contest. “The most important guardian of our living standards is freedom,” he wrote. “As Prime Minister, I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as pos...
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...
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.
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.
2 days ago · On Tuesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started dropping a new line — "The price of Pierre Poilievre" — an echo of Poilievre's frequent references to what he calls the "Liberal-NDP costly coalition."
Apr 30, 2024 · 3:49. After asking Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre several times to withdraw comments made during question period Tuesday, Speaker of the House Greg Fergus orders Poilievre to withdraw...
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4 days ago · The ultimate prize is for a clip of Mr. Poilievre taking on one of these declared enemies to go so viral that American, British and Australian conservatives can rub up against it like catnip, as ...
Sep 11, 2022 · CBC News analyzes how Pierre Poilievre won the Conservative leadership race with his anti-elite, pro-freedom message. He opposes vaccine mandates, carbon tax, CBC, Bank of Canada and more.
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