As Pierre Poilievre and his team watch thousands of people crowd into his leadership campaign events, they’ve begun referring to his bid as a new political movement for the country. Is Poilievre’s campaign attracting a different type of Conservative?
OTTAWA—As Pierre Poilievre and his team watch thousands of people jam into his Conservative leadership campaign events, they say they are seeing a new political movement take shape.
While freedom has always been a theme for Conservatives — he uses a 1960 quote on the subject from former prime minister John Diefenbaker in his speeches — a clue surfaced recently that this was a new crowd. Though both lines may have landed somewhat better at a Thursday night event just 11 kilometres away from Parliament Hill.
Mingling in the crowd were also members of “Freedom Fighters Canada,” a group that shares the same concerns with the so-called “Freedom Convoy” movement that blockaded downtown Ottawa earlier this year.Poilievre’s team say they don’t always know how many people are going to show up. Not all RSVP to the email or Facebook invites, and then there are those who come because they’ve seen the posting somewhere else.
So as he wraps up a stump speech that covers everything from carbon pricing to the Magna Carta, Poilievre makes a very clear and specific pitch: if people want a Canada like the one he’s promising, they have to pony up $15 for a party membership.“We need thousands of people to buy memberships and vote.”
Each volunteer holds a laminated placard with a QR code, and anyone interested in taking out a card can sign up on the spot.
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