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Pierre Poilievre rode a populist wave to victory. Next up, a bare-knuckle fight with the Liberals all the way to the 2025 election — unless it comes earlier.
Pierre Poilievre has a shot at forming the next government. | Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press
By Nick Taylor-Vaisey
09/10/2022 09:47 PM EDT
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OTTAWA, Ont. — Pierre Poilievre is the new leader of the Conservative Party. The seven-term MP was born on Canada’s Prairies and represents a riding on the outskirts of the nation’s capital. He attracted unusually large crowds to dozens of campaign rallies and unleashed bombastic rhetoric everywhere he went.
Now he has a shot at forming the next government. Ottawa’s political bubble is obsessed with one question: Where exactly will Poilievre lead a Conservative movement hell-bent on booting Justin Trudeau’s Liberals from power?
One thing is clear: Everybody is spoiling for a fight in 2025, if not before.
