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Carleton MP Poilievre a front runner for Conservative Party leadership By Charlie Senack
With Erin O’Toole out as Conservative Party leader, there is much speculation that Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre could be a front runner for the position. The seven-term Member of Parliament has climbed ranks in the party, and has been a vocal talking piece on key issues. During the Harper years, Poilievre served as the Minister of State for Democratic Reform, and Minister of Employment and Social Development. Following the party’s big loss during the 2015 federal election, Poilievre then served as Shadow Minister of Jobs and Industry and shadow Minister of Finance. During the leadership race in 2020 which Erin O’Toole narrowly won, Poilievre announced he would run for leader of
Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre, pictured meeting supporters on Parliament Hill during last weekend’s truck protest, instantly became a front runner for the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership after the resignation of Erin O’Toole. Pierre Poilievre Twitter photo
the party, but cancelled the campaign just before its
official launch. In a statement at the
time Poilievre said he didn’t feel “all in” and was
worried about the toll it would take on his growing
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family. “A friend of mine was texting me back and forth a few weeks ago and said, ‘Are you going to do this?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. Should I do it?’ And he said, ‘You should write two letters to your daughter; One telling her why you did it and one telling her why you didn’t,” he said. “I didn’t feel ready to make the total and absolute sacrifice of family life.” Last fall, Poilievre welcomed a second child, a son named Cruz, with his wife Anaida. After the Conservatives lost last year’s snap fall federal election, which Poilievre described as unnecessary and costly, there were calls for O’Toole’s resignation. That never came, but talk around the Hill was that Poilievre was eyeing the position again.
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