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Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who was born on June 3, 1979. Since 2022, he has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and as the leader of the Official Opposition. His pronunciation is /pliv/ pawl-ee-EV. Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a member of the House of Commons. Since 2004, Poilievre has been representing his constituency in Parliament as an MP.
Poilievre received his Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from the University of Calgary, where he also completed his academic studies. After that, he took a job as an advisor to Stockwell Day, the leader of the Canadian Alliance. Poilievre was initially elected to the House of Commons as a result of the federal election that took place in 2004. At first, he represented the riding of Nepean—Carleton, which is located in the area around Ottawa. Later, he represented the newly constituted riding of Carleton. Between the years 2013 and 2015, he held the position of Minister for Democratic Reform. Beginning in 2015, he was Minister for Employment and Social Development. Poilievre held the position of shadow minister for finance from 2017 until 2022, after which he briefly held the position of shadow minister for jobs and industry. He participated in the election for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2022 and won on the first ballot of the election.
Poilievre has been variously categorized as a populist, as well as a libertarian. In order to eliminate the budget deficit, he supports the implementation of a pay-as-you-go law, which would oblige the government to compensate for any new spending by making cuts in other areas of the budget. He is an opponent of the Bank of Canada and advocates for the removal of Tiff Macklem as the institution’s governor. In addition to this, he suggests doing away with the carbon tax and cutting money to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Early life of Pierre Poilievre
Poilievre was born in Calgary, Alberta to an Irish mother who was 16 years old at the time of her pregnancy. Poilievre’s father was also of Irish origin. Poilievre’s first encounter with his biological maternal grandpa, an Irish Canadian, took place when Poilievre was an adult. Shortly after his birth, Poilievre was taken in by Marlene and Donald Poilievre, both of whom are schoolteachers in the province of Saskatchewan. Donald Poilievre is of French Canadian descent. Poilievre spent his childhood in Calgary, where he also received his high school education at Henry Wise Wood.
Poilievre held a job at the Calgary Sun when he was younger in the capacity of a paperboy.
At the age of 16, Poilievre began working for Jason Kenney as a membership sales representative for the Reform Party of Canada, in which he had previously been active. Poilievre worked for Telus while he was a teenager, performing corporate collections by making phone calls to various firms. After that, he also had a brief stint working as a journalist for Alberta Report, which is a weekly conservative magazine.
After completing his studies in commerce for some time, Poilievre decided to pursue a degree in international relations at the University of Calgary. He dropped out of college before receiving his diploma, but he went back and finished it in 2008, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1999, when Poilievre was a student in his second year, he entered an essay he had written into the “As Prime Minister, I Would…” essay contest held by Magna International. In his essay, “Building Canada Through Freedom,” he discussed the topic of individual liberty and, among other things, suggested that all members of Parliament should be limited to serving a maximum of two consecutive terms in office. Poilievre was one of the finalists, and he won $10,000, and his essay, “As Prime Minister, I Would…” will be published in the book that collects all of the essays that were submitted for @Stake. Poilievre was also the President of the Young Tories of the University of Calgary, where he clashed with future leadership rival Patrick Brown, who was at the time the President of the National Progressive Conservative Youth Federation, over the support of Joe Clark, who was at the time the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Poilievre served as President of the Young Tories of the University of Calgary. Because of Poilievre’s opposition to Clark, the Progressive Conservative club was going to switch over to the United Alternative at one point, but he later retracted the threat.
Before moving to Ottawa, Ontario Poilievre established a company known as 3D Contact Inc. with his business partner, Jonathan Denis, who would later become a Cabinet Minister in the province of Alberta. The company’s primary focus was on providing political communications, polling, and research services.
Poilievre was employed by an organization known as the Campaign to Draft Stockwell Day, which had the objective of persuading Stockwell Day, who was the Treasurer of Alberta at the time, to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance. After that, Poilievre assisted in Day’s bid for the leadership position. Poilievre began working as an advisor for Day in the year 2002 after Day had completed his term as Leader of the Official Opposition.
Following the announcement that Jean Chretien would step down as Prime Minister of Canada in 2002, Poilievre and Ezra Levant, who would later go on to found the far-right publication Rebel News, penned an editorial in which they argued in favour of a merger between the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties.
Poilievre served as Levant’s campaign spokesperson during the 2002 Calgary Southwest by-election, which was held to determine who would succeed Preston Manning in the seat. The Levant eventually withdrew from the race to make room for Stephen Harper to run.
Personal life of Pierre Poilievre
After relocating to Ottawa, Poilievre began a relationship with Jenni Byrne, a political strategist for the Conservative party, which lasted until 2011. Poilievre tied the knot with Anaida Galindo, an aide in the Senate, at a ceremony that took place in Portugal in January of 2018. On October 17, 2018, they had their first child, a daughter named Valentina Alejandra Poilievre Galindo. Cruz Alejandro Poilievre was born to Poilievre on September 12, 2021, making him the father of two children. Poilievre is fluent in both English and French, and he speaks both languages equally well.
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