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Poilievre flirts with far right while media looks away

Probing Poilievre’s winking flirtation with fringe-right groups could provide us with crucial information that Conservative strategists are working hard to keep under wraps.

Updated 12 hrs ago
May 1, 2024
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By Linda McQuaigContributing Columnist

A dozen years ago, Pierre Poilievre was a relatively obscure political figure who was mostly regarded — to the extent he was regarded at all — as a fiercely anti-labour guy on the far-right of the Harper cabinet.

But there he was in Parliament last February, voting in favour of pro-labour legislation banning scabs in federal workplaces.

Has he fundamentally changed his thinking — or was that simply part of his new, air-brushed “friend of the working man” look?P

Surely, there should be a lot more media scrutiny of this mysterious individual who, after shedding his glasses and adopting a hipper look, has managed to reinvent himself on the public stage.

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