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If Pierre Poilievre doesn’t want to be portrayed as an authoritarian leader, maybe he should stop talking like one

It’s been an extraordinary couple of days in the saga of Pierre Poilievre, unleashed.

Ejected from the House of Commons on Tuesday, blue-skying about making laws without Charter of Rights protection on Monday, the Conservative leader is giving Canadians a good look at his somewhat flexible views about what constrains him.

Short answer: Not much. It’s certainly not the rule book of the Commons or even the rules of political civility. So why not the Constitution, too?

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