Pierre Poilievre is poised to become the next Conservative leader — and young voters are suddenly interested in his party

OTTAWA — “Our next prime minister.”

“I’ll vote for you bro!!!”

“This guy is Canada’s future.”

Those are the kinds of comments NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh used to get on his TikTok videos. Users of the app — a youth favourite — would reply to the leader’s viral clips, begging him to unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and change the way politics is done in Canada. Orange heart emojis would sometimes follow.

But those comments aren’t from Singh’s profile. They’re scattered beneath presumed Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre’s TikTok videos. And now, the heart emojis are blue.

This turns into a “But Jagmeet is the superior candidate for da Yutes” spiel.