Toronto (AP) – Until a few months ago, Pierre Poilievre was considered a Shoo -in to become the next Prime Minister of Canada and expressed his conservative party in power for the first time in a decade. President Donald Trump then declared the economic war against the United States neighbor to the north and even threatened to make Canada the 51st state.
Hairy, a Brand career and populist politiciancampaigned with Braggadocio of Trump type, even taking a page by President “America First” by adopting the slogan “Canada first”. But his similarities with Trump could cost him the chance to become Prime Minister when the Canadians went to the polls on April 28.
Trump’s frequent attacks on the economy and Canada sovereignty made Canadians furious and led to a Increase in nationalism This has strengthened the liberal parties survey numbers.
Like Trump, Hairyvre boasts the size of the crowd during his campaign rallies and attacks the consumer media, recently calling a demonstration journalist. In response to public opinion changes, some proponents of Hairy wore hooded sweatshirts for a recent gathering with the slogan, “Do you believe the polls?”
The change in the polls was dramatic. In a survey in mid-January of Nanos, the Liberals dragged the conservatives from 47% to 20%. In the last Nanos survey, which was led during a three -day period which ended on April 19, the liberals led by six percentage points. The January survey had a margin of error 3.1 points while the last survey had a margin of 2.7 points.
“People ‘hectorations, slogans, big rallies – like it all seems just that Trump. And people don’t like Trump right now in Canada,” said Kory Teneycke, a key figure in conservative Canadian politics that leads the campaigns.
“The style (hairy) and its approach to politics certainly channel a lot of Trump. It’s like a cheap karaoke version of Trump.”
Hairy was implored the Canadians not to give the Liberals a fourth term after “a lost liberal decade”. He hoped to make the election a referendum on the old Prime Minister Justin Trudeauwhose popularity has decreased towards the end of its decade to be able while the prices of food and housing increased and that immigration has increased.
But Trump attacked, Trudeau resigned and Mark CarneyA double central banker has become a leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister. After decades of bilateral stability, the vote should now focus on who is best equipped to meet Trump.
Who is Hairyvre?
Hairyvre is best known for his populist slogans and his attacks against Trudeau, which he blamed for strong inflation. He was the Minister of the Cabinet in the former Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and has managed the opposition conservatives since 2022.
Teneycke said that hairy skills as a “political attack dog” led him to large heights.
“When this anger was focused on a very unpopular prime minister to Justin Trudeau, that worked for him,” said Tineycke. “Trudeau take out, enter Trump and it’s a completely changed game. He didn’t bring this level of ferocity to Trump.”
Daniel Béland, professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, said that Hairyvre is different from Trump in several ways but, stylistically, their rhetoric is often similar.
“It looks like someone that many of your fellow citizens perceive as the public enemy of their country No. 1 cannot be a good thing in politics,” said Béland.
A father of two 45 -year -old married children represents a district outside the capital, Ottawa, but he grew up in Alberta, the most conservative province in Canada. He has been deputy since the age of 25.
Hairy volunteered on conservative campaigns during his adolescence, joined the Côté Conservative Club of the University of Calgary and was a finalist for a dissertation writing competition on what he would do if he was Prime Minister.
What would a hairy victory for Canadian-American relations?
Trump said he was not concerned that his trade war with Canada increases the Liberal Party before the legislative elections. And although he said that hairy opinions are more aligned than Carney with his with his, he is not a fan of Hairyvre.
“The short conservative is stupidly not one of my friends,” said Trump, criticizing Hairy to “say negative things”.
Hairy, like Carney, said that if he was elected, he would accelerate the renegotiations of the free trade agreement with the United States, he also wants Trump to suspend American prices during talks. He said Trump should “eliminate” his attacks on Canada, but that “no one can control this president.”
The Prime Minister of Alberta, Danielle Smith, an ally conservative of Hairyvre, said that Poilievre would be “very synchronized” with the “new direction in America”.
Hairy has promised to undo the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the public broadcaster and a cultural institution in Canada. He wants to reduce taxes and hopes to approve pipelines that would diversify oil exports. He also promised to be hard for crime and denounced “Woke-IMS”.
“Who is ready for change in Canada?” Who is ready to chop taxes? Who is ready to build houses? Who is ready for pipelines to make us independent of the Americans? And who is ready to put Canada first for a change? ” Hairyvre said during a recent gathering.
