“maximize the best interests of her financial position.”
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Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party and leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. First elected in 2004, he has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Battle River—Crowfoot since August 2025, and previously represented Carleton until his defeat in April 2025.
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business · Canadian politician (born 1979) · politician · communications adviser · policy analyst · businessperson · also Pierre Poilievre, Pierre Marcel Poilievre, PP, Poilievre
Born 3 June 1979 · Q3386636
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2026· 27 entries
“s Permanent Residence numbers of around 200k-250k and deport those who overstay on their temporary visa. Saying that”
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“we should have a government that just minds its own damn business and leaves people alone to make their own personal decisions. That”
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“Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males”
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“Canada will never be the 51st state”
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“s governor Tiff Macklem, is Prime Minister Trudeau”
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“The division today on the CPP is entirely the result of Justin Trudeau attacking the Alberta economy”
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“getting value for all this money”
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Published video “Out of unimaginable loss, she's fighting to save lives.”.
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Times Colonist: Pierre Poilievre tours businesses in Delta
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Published video “LIVE from Richmond: No Tax on Gas”.
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Published video “Pas de taxes sur l'essence.”.
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Published video “Voici comment nous pouvons faire passer notre économie de la dernière à la première place.”.
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Published video “How we take our economy from worst to first.”.
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Conservative Party of Canada: Statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on National Acadian Day
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The Star: Inside Pierre Poilievre’s summer of Conservative ‘disenchantment’
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Published video “Mark Carney's weak Liberal laws caused this extortion crisis.”.
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Published video “When you work hard and play by the rules, government shouldn't stand in the way of your success.”.
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Published video “Liberals shut down critical Nappan Research Farm”.
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Published video “Les conservateurs défendent le Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.”.
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Published video “EN DIRECT : Avec Régis, on s'attaque au coût de la vie”.
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Poilievre reshuffled his shadow cabinet
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Public attention spiked: 3,137 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,010, with 0 article edits.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Pierre Poilievre donated money to erase school lunch debt” False.
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Announced that he supported the cancellation of the Alto high speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City
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“common sense Conservatives under his leadership will be cutting back foreign aid to terrorist dictators and multinational bureaucracies and using the money to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces.”
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Pierre Poilievre strongly supported U
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2025· 9 entries
Election lost: 2025 federal election.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Pierre Poilievre made a video discussing Jewish people and coin clipping” Altered picture.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Pierre Poilievre said he wished to join Donald Trump's "war against woke"” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Pierre Poilievre voted with the Liberals 646 times” Misleading.
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Career landmark: Leader of the Official Opposition (2025).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2025).
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Campaign: 2025 federal election.
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“border has been left wide open”
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Due to the Longest Ballot Committee encouraging adding candidates to promote independent election reforms
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2024· 6 entries
Poilievre proposed eliminating the GST on houses under $1 million while stating that it would save $40,000 on a $800,000 house and incentivize construction of 30,000 additional homes
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The Conservatives won the previously Liberal-held riding of Toronto—St
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The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians released a report on foreign interference by the governments such as India and China in Canadian elections such as the 2022 Conservative Party of Canad
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Poilievre was ejected from the House of Commons after referring to Trudeau as a "wacko prime minister", when criticizing Trudeau's past support for British Columbia's decriminalization of hard drug use in public spaces
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Poilievre stated that if he became prime minister he would significantly reduce the numbers of asylum seekers and temporary residents, citing the high amount of new arrivals compared to Canada's housing supply
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Described Liberal Party's approach to immigration as "radical and out of control" and argued Trudeau's government has "destroyed our immigration system"
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2023· 7 entries
In an emailed statement, Poilievre "encouraged Albertans to stay in the CPP" amidst ongoing debate in Alberta on whether to leave the Canada Pension Plan
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Poilievre criticized Trudeau for weighing in on New Brunswick's Policy 713 regarding LGBT students, calling it a "provincial policy" and saying that "The prime minister has no business in decisions that should rest with
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Poilievre and his caucus voted in support of the Liberal government's legislation for long term funding to a Canada-wide early learning and child-care system
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Anaida Poilievre was the CEO of Switch Health” False.
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Poilievre called for a public registry for agents of foreign governments who interfere in Canada's elections
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For the provinces but shared provincial premiers' criticisms of the funding being too low and he blamed Trudeau for overspending elsewhere
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Stated irregular border crossing points should be closed and loopholes allowing illegal migration to be ended by amending the "Safe Third Country Agreement"
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2022· 12 entries
Election won: 2022 leadership election.
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It was reported that between 2018 and 2022, Poilievre's team-managed YouTube channel posted hundreds of videos with a hidden tag labelled "MGTOW", referencing the misogynistic online community
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Canadian Prime Minister candidate Pierre Poilievre tweeted about abolishing social programs.” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Pierre Poilievre tweeted that Canada should abolish all social programs” False.
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Poilievre implicitly declared his intention to run in the leadership election, stating "I'm running for Prime Minister"
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There was speculation of Poilievre entering the leadership election to succeed him
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Campaign: 2022 leadership election.
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Career landmark: Leader of the Official Opposition (2022–2025).
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Career landmark: leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (2022).
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Jean said that the Queen dismissed Poilievre's petition over the Queen's belief that she cannot intervene in Canadian affairs
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By fundraising and organizing support for Poilievre
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Poilievre described himself as pro-immigration and put forward policies aiming to speed up processing times to reunite families, keep refugees safe, and get jobs filled in Canada
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2021· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2021–2025).
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Poilievre voted in favour of banning conversion therapy in a free vote
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Poilievre opposed a private member bill prohibiting sex-selective abortion
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2020· 2 entries
Citing his desire to spend more time with his family
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Changed his position and said that a government led by him would never introduce a bill on the topic, and no private ones would be adopted
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2019· 2 entries
To the 43rd Canadian Parliament, this time by a wider margin of the vote compared to his 2015 victory
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2019–2021).
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2017· 1 entry
The elections commissioner determined that the occasion was akin to a Conservative party campaign event, rather than a Government of Canada announcement
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2015· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2015–2019).
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Career landmark: minister of Families, Children and Social Development (2015–2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Poilievre introduced Bill C-23, known as the Fair Elections Act, into the House of Commons, which was eventually passed
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2012· 2 entries
If his advocacy was akin to right-to-work laws implemented in parts of the United States, Poilievre described it as an "enhancement of workers rights and freedoms"
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His wife, Anaida Poilievre, also owns a rental property in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, which she bought in 2012 and took out a mortgage on in 2020.
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2011–2015).
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2010· 2 entries
Supported a bill that would have criminalized pressuring a person to get an abortion and a motion where Parliament would have studied when a fetus should be considered a human
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A police probe was triggered after Poilievre drove through a Parliament Hill screening gate without being permitted entry by the RCMP
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2008· 2 entries
Poilievre graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Calgary
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2008–2011).
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2006· 2 entries
And 2008, in 2011 Poilievre won re-election in Nepean–Carleton with over 50% of the vote
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2006–2008).
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2005· 4 entries
A private member Bill C-414, titled An Act to prevent the Government of Canada from charging rent to non-profit hospitals
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To create a means to recall Members of Parliament through a petition, and Bill C-456, on November 24, 2005, to insert parental responsibility into the Criminal Code by making it an offence for a parent to contribute thro
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Gave a speech opposing same-sex marriage while favouring civil unions as an alternative and voted in favour on the motion to introduce legislation to reinstate an opposite-sex only definition of marriage in 2006
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“s convention in Calgary that month, Poilievre received 87.4% support in a leadership review vote. This vote broke the record for the party as he became the single most popular leader in the Conservative Party, breaking Stephen Harper”
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2004· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2004–2006).
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Has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Battle River—Crowfoot since August 2025, and previously represented Carleton until his defeat in April 2025
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2003· 1 entry
Poilievre founded 3D Contact Inc
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2002· 2 entries
After Day's tenure as Leader of the Official Opposition, Poilievre left Calgary and university without graduating to work as an advisor to Day, but he completed online coursework through Athabasca University to earn a Ba
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Poilievre and Ezra Levant, who practised law at the time, wrote an op-ed advocating the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties
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2000· 2 entries
Poilievre was an organizer on a website called Organization to Draft Stockwell Day, seeking to recruit Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance party
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To work for Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day
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1999· 1 entry
As a second-year student, Poilievre submitted an essay to Magna International's "As prime minister, I Would
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1979· 5 entries
In Calgary, Alberta, to 16-year-old high school student Jacqueline Farrell, whose mother had recently died
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Born 1979-06-03.
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“CJME News (January 26, 2025) Everything Conservatives said BEFORE the Trump tariffs is even MORE correct now.”
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“CJME News (January 26, 2025) Trump wants to put America first, good for him. I’m putting Canada first.”
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“s potential digital currency. Poilievre has pledged to cut personal income taxes. Following the Rogers-Shaw merger, Poilievre stated that Canada needed more telecommunications competition and proposed for there to be at least”
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