The 2022 political year saw federal leaders grapple with both unprecedented protests at home and how to respond to wartime needs abroad. It also saw some top politicians take on new positions of power, while Indigenous leaders took their calls for accountability directly to the Vatican. Here are CTV News Channel Power Play's picks for the top five political power players of the year.
The 2022 political year saw federal leaders grapple with both unprecedented protests at home and how to respond to wartime needs abroad. It also saw some top politicians take on new positions of power, while Indigenous leaders took their calls for accountability directly to the Vatican.
For 10 months, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has managed to rally support from NATO countries despite Ukraine not being a member nation. His resolve has reflected his nation’s resistance in the face of Vladimir Putin’s attempted annexation of the entire country. "Every single evening he is telling Ukrainians what is happening, what we've done to get the support of our partners, what has been done inside the country to repair the [power] grids to warm up the people," said Kovaliv.NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
After a seven-month leadership campaign that saw intense attacks against his fellow candidates, Pierre Poilievre walked awayWhen the results were announced in September, the long-time Tory managed to secure 68 per cent of the available electoral points and came in as the first choice in nearly all of the country’s 338 ridings.
Making history as the first person to lead a national Public Order Emergency Commission as prescribed in the Emergencies Act, Paul RouleauUltimately, he and his team of commission counsel lawyers had six weeks to question more than 70 witnesses and parse through thousands of pages of documentation related to the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to bring an end to the"Freedom Convoy" protests.
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