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Earlier this year, the American news website Vox introduced its broad readership to Pierre Poilievre. They accounted for the popularity of the Canadian Conservative leader with recourse to an American phenomenon: the right-wing populism of Donald Trump. The piece painted Poilievre as an embodiment of “Canada’s polite Trumpism.”

Such a diagnosis may rattle many Canadians, who regard the grotesquerie of Trump and his “MAGA” ideology as uniquely symptomatic of life below the 49th parallel. Trumpism (we’d all like to believe) has about as much place in Canada as AR-15s or four-down football. But you needn’t worry: some basic overlap in rhetoric and ideology aside, the Poilievre/Trump comparison falls short. As anyone watching the two national campaigns may have gleaned of late, Pierre Poilievre isn’t Canada’s Donald Trump. He’s our JD Vance.

If online chatter was to be believed, the northern Ontario town of Kirkland Lake — founded on gold, sustained by hockey, population roughly 8,000 — was abuzz last week.

“Just got back from Pierre Poilievre’s rally,” read one post on X, formerly Twitter. The user, who wrote her bio in Spanish and listed her location as France, continued the emphatic message to her zero followers: “I’m buzzing from the energy! As a northerner, it’s refreshing to see a leader who actually listens to our concerns and prioritizes our needs.”

The Liberal Party, consistent with its tendency in government to waste taxpayers’ money on useless or preposterous initiatives, also spends its donors’ money in ways that make little sense. The Liberals recently set up a website, pierresrecord.ca, that attempts to denigrate Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s record as a member of Parliament. In fact, it provides numerous reasons why Canadians should support Poilievre instead of them.

“I am also happy that the suspected shooter is dead.”

With those 10 words, in response to Friday’s apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sent Canada’s propriety police into one of its trademarked tizzies.

‘I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,’ Conservative leader says

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he won’t commit to meeting the two per cent NATO defence spending target if he becomes prime minister.

“I make promises that I can keep and right now we are, our country, is broke,” Poilievre said. “I’m inheriting a dumpster fire when it comes to the budget.

“Every time I make a financial commitment, I’m going to make sure I’ve pulled out my calculator and done all the math. People are sick and tired of politicians just announcing that they’re going to spend money without figuring out how they’re going to pay for it.”

He’s ahead of the story. Justin is going to pile on the debt between now and his political death to fiscally tie Poilievre’s hands.

It takes mere seconds to realize the man is dead serious.

When he says the country is broken it is not a slogan for him.

He means what he says. He is describing what he sees. He believes it is what Canadians see and a recent poll confirms most do.

Not every Canadian has had an intimate experience with the wrath of progressive zealots — but they’re about to.

The Liberal’s loss of their former stronghold riding of Toronto—St. Paul’s this week was the rendering of what polls have been telling us for months: a blue wave is coming to this country. And when it washes over us — make no mistake — our so-called progressives are going to unravel. It has already begun.

Justin Trudeau’s fall from grace probably has a lot to do with the perception of him as a patrician close to the heart of the Canadian establishment, who fraternizes with corporate lobbyists and vacations at the Caribbean retreats of billionaires.

Meanwhile, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a scrappy guy with modest Alberta roots, has been traversing the country describing Canada as a “living hell” for working class people, and promising that “when I’m prime minister my obsession — my daily obsession — will be about what is good for the working-class people of this country.”

Oh no! He consorts with the business community!

Justin has near destroyed Canada importing cheap labour for his corporate cronies.

Poilievre will be little different I am afraid to say.

His insular communications strategy is a necessary defense against Canada’s anti-American psychosis

An extreme form of mental gymnastics is required to believe that a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, pro-immigration philosemite in an interracial marriage is also Canada’s beachhead for an invasion of American-style white nationalism.

Then again, Canadians have extremely flexible imaginations.

Canada has never had a federal Conservative or Liberal leader who fit the term “career politician” more precisely than Pierre Poilievre. He was consumed by politics as a kid and has done nothing except politics ever since. A well-rounded man, he is not.

In his book, Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life, right-side journalist Andrew Lawton traces the Leader’s first political meetings to his early teens, when his mother took him to pro-life events in Calgary. Even before he graduated from high school he was working in the office of Reform Party MP Art Hanger, hauling in $600 a month.

Would Poilievre be where he is today if Trudeau was not PM?