Regarding him:
Canada’s polite Trumpism
The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa.
Source: https://www.vox.com/politics/24140480/c ... -democracy
---------------------------------------------------------It’s true that, by Canadian standards, Poilievre is an especially hard-nosed figure, one far more willing to use extreme rhetoric and attack political opponents in harsh terms.
But on policy substance, he’s actually considerably more moderate than Trump or European radicals. Mostly eschewing the demagogic focus on culture and immigration that defines the new global far right, Poilievre is primarily concerned with classic conservative themes of limited government. His biggest campaign promises at present aren’t slashing immigration rates or cracking down on crime, but building more housing and repealing Canada’s carbon tax.
Poilievre is basically just a conventional Canadian conservative who wraps up his elite-friendly agenda in anti-elite language aimed at working-class voters. He’s the kind of politician that some Republicans wish Donald Trump was: a tame populist.
Honestly, he's more akin to Canadian Reaganism than anything else from how he's described.... though looking further into him and his praise of some of the Clinton era's policies, he might as well just be a typical centrist Democrat (literally circa present) from my country's standards.
