“Wokism has nothing to do with justice. It’s about power and money.” Follower of shock formulas and cantor of an anti-establishment discourse, the new leader of the Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre, promises to “give back their freedom” to Canadians.
Seen as a outsider at the start of the campaign for the nomination at the head of the country’s second party, this career politician knew how to move the crowds during his numerous meetings.
“I will be Canada’s anti-woke Prime Minister”
Rectangular glasses, brown hair combed back and colorful ties, Pierre Poilievre, 43, now dreams of dethroning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberals in power since 2015. The next election must take place in three years.
“I will be Canada’s anti-woke Prime Minister”promised this ardent defender of the Convoy of freedom which shook the country last winter by laying siege to the institutions for three weeks in Ottawa, in particular to ask for the lifting of health restrictions.
I will be Canada’s anti-woke prime minister.
Help me get there: https://t.co/ozY29fXrsl pic.twitter.com/75JyEwidx4
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) August 23, 2022
The politician is also an ardent defender of the abolition of health restrictions which he considers “non-scientists”regularly recalling that vaccination against Covid-19 does not reduce the transmission of the virus and that it was implemented for political reasons.
Unbelievable. The Trudeau Liberals’ unscientific and divisive COVID vaccine mandates are now clearly revealed to be the political theatre we always knew it was.
This government has shattered trust with the people. https://t.co/WaWTXzslAF
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) August 2, 2022
“Remove control of money” from bankers and politicians to “give it back to the people”
To fight against inflation, which he ironically renamed the “Justin-flation” referring to the first name of the current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre also wants to reduce public spending, stressing that by increasing taxes on the companies that finance it, the government is forcing in fact companies to raise the price of their products. In addition, he put a high point on the need to reduce taxes so that the citizen can in return keep the fruits of his labor: “the more you work, the more the government takes your money through taxes”. His leitmotif: reduce taxes to reward hard work.
He also offered to “remove control of money” to bankers and politicians for “give it back to the people”. And to abolish the carbon tax in force since 2018 which “punishes Canadians”.
He also wants to pass a law on the “plain language” to combat the bureaucratic jargon of the government “expensive in time and money” et “to force him to write what he thinks and to think what he writes”.
The official language of the govt is neither French nor English. It’s the “bureaucrat”, lots of words for nothing.
It costs billions, disguises chess and drives people crazy.
I will pass a Plain Language Act to ban bureaucratic jargon in the govt. pic.twitter.com/mEN6L3tE6G— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) September 1, 2022
His political project also includes a section on the fight against “street gang violence” increasingly growing.
Disillusioned Conservative Party Progressives
His election is likely to trigger a stir. Some rather progressive Tories have already threatened to surrender their party cards amid an “identity crisis,” according to Sen. Marjory LeBreton.
Born in Calgary, Pierre Poilievre grew up in western Canada in an adoptive family. He developed a passion for politics very early on and won a prize during his university studies for an essay on the theme “If I were Prime Minister, I would…”.
Elected at 25, he is the youngest member of the assembly and has already been re-elected six times since in the suburbs of the federal capital Ottawa. Often compared in the country to Donald Trump, he does not hesitate to attack the media verbally.
Pierre Poilievre’s tour de force is to be seen as a “young and fresh face” despite years in politics, analyzes Geneviève Tellier, professor at the University of Ottawa. The latter notes that he is also far more charismatic than his predecessors.