Canada’s opposition Conservative Party has elected its go-to attack dog as its new party leader.
Pierre Poilievre is a firebrand populist who opposes vaccine mandates and blames Canada’s inflation on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He won the party leadership on the first ballot on Saturday, defeating a moderate, centrist candidate with 68% of the votes cast by the party’s members.
The 43-year-old Poilievre is a career politician and was a Cabinet minister in then Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. He embraced Canadians who were against vaccine mandates and supported the freedom truck convoy that paralysed Canada’s capital and blockaded the border with the US.
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