John Semley

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Pierre Poilievre isn’t Canada’s Donald Trump. He’s our JD Vance

Pierre Poilievre isn’t Canada’s Donald Trump. He’s our JD Vance

Earlier this year, the American news website Vox introduced its broad readership to Pierre Poilievre. They accounted for the popularity of the Canadian Conservative leader with recourse to an American phenomenon: the right-wing populism of Donald Trump. The piece painted Poilievre as an embodiment of “Canada’s polite Trumpism.”