Pierre Poilievre

The Honourable Pierre Marcel Poilievre (born: )https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/09/conservative-pierre-poilievre-in-his-own-words-00055343 is a Canadian politician and the member of parliament for the riding of Carleton. He is the incumbent leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,https://www.conservative.ca/ the current official opposition in the Canadian parliament.
Poilievre's channel, like his other social media accounts, is managed by his media agent. The videos on his channel range from House of Commons highlights to campaign videos promoting his party platform. Many of his videos are focused on denouncing current Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, as well as the Liberal and New Democratic political parties.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsUdmVltlI
==Personal Life==
Poilievre was adopted at a young age by schoolteachers Donald and Marlene Poilievre, and grew up in a modest suburban Calgary household.https://onfr.tfo.org/pierre-poilievre-devient-nouveau-chef-du-parti-conservateur/ 
At the age of 14, after being forced to drop out of his school's wrestling club due to an injury, he attended an Alberta Tory riding-association meeting, sparking his interest in politics. Poilievre became active in conservative political spaces and meetings, and at the age of 16 sold memberships and did telephone canvassing for Reform Party MP Jason Kenney.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-the-making-of-pierre-poilievre-conservative-proselytizer/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Poilievre#cite_note-13
Throughout his time in university he would continue to engage in the Canadian political scene. Eventually, in the lead-up to the 2004 federal election, Poilievre would be nominated as the Conservative candidate for the riding of Carleton-Nepean. He would go on to serve under prime minister Stephen Harper as the minister for democratic reform from 2013 to 2015, and the minister of employment and social development from 2015 to the end of Harper's tenure. From 2017 to 2022 he served as the shadow minister of finance under CPC leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O'Toole.
After O'Toole was deposed from his position as leader of the Conservative Party following a referendum held by party members, Poilievre won the nomination for leader of the CPC and continues to serve in this capacity.
Poilievre married Anaida Galindo in 2017. They have two children and live in Greely, Ontario. 
==Video Content==
The videos often have an English and French language equivalent,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3WK9LZMwTkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGZIp6mFSo and the videos have subtitles directly imprinted onto the video itself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tFjeWfnlRAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-oqBZh2yxA The videos appear to mostly have the English language version of the uploaded first, and the French language video is uploaded second.https://www.youtube.com/c/PierrePoilievreMP/videos This causes the appearance of French language video first and then the English language video second when viewed from "Most Recent", but the clips from Parliament are in English.
==Controversies==
===Alleged Affiliation with Diagolon===
Poilievre has been accused of affiliating with alt-right white nationalist groups, namely Diagolon. In April of 2024 he was spotted at a protest with a Diagolon flag drawn on his RV. This came two years after Poilievre's wife was threatened by members of the group on a podcast. Prior to this he had been seen shaking hands with Jeremy Mackenzie, the leader of Diagolon.https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-trudeau-carbon-protest-alex-jones-diagolon-1.7183430
==="Wacko" Comment===
Also in April 2024, Poilievre was temporarily ejected from the House of Commons during question period after calling Justin Trudeau a "wacko." The comment was deemed offensive by house speaker Greg Fergus, a Liberal MP, but Poilievre refused to retract the statement and apologize, resulting in him being removed from the HoC for the session. He was allowed to return the following day. MPs from the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois, including Poilievre himself, called for Fergus' resignation following this, alleging bias and corruption.https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/poilievre-kicked-out-of-commons-after-calling-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-wacko-1.6867764https://globalnews.ca/news/10515528/greg-fergus-speaker-campaign-partisan-resign/
==References==
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