A major union leader says Pierre Poilievre’s claim that he lost his seat because of his pledge to cut the public service is “simplistic” and should also be attributed to voters linking the Conservative leader to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“I think what people saw was too many similarities. People see the platform that was presented. They see past decision-making and they link it to what’s happening down south in an extreme manner,” said Sharon DeSousa, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest federal public sector union.
