Amid Trump’s threats, the conservative leader in Canada faces uncertainty in the national elections

Pierre Boelifer, who was carrying his 6 -year -old daughter on his shoulders, was the leader of the Conservative Party of the leadership of Canada, running a crowd of well -wishers in his electoral area in Ottawa.

“Hey, there, Mr. Alexander!” He said, holding the hand of Mark Alexander, who was visited by the political dairy farm 21 years ago at his first offer to his position.

Mr. Poiliefre summoned sitting on the farmers’ kitchen table. He also stated that Mr. Alexander did not obtain a conservative membership card because “the party has spoiled.”

“Then I came and milked the cows with you,” Mr. Poilievre continued, just as the wife of the farmer, soft, harmonious, “Yes, I did!”

After asking about four family members – by name – Mr. Poilievre moved. “He really cares about people,” said Mrs. Alexander, who was planning to vote for Mr. Polilifer. “He has an amazing memory. He will also remember these very small details the first time we met.”

Mr. Poilievre, 45 – who aims to defeat Prime Minister Mark Carney, is 60 years old, and ends a contract of liberal rule in the Canadian general elections on April 28 – one of the most activists, communications and politicians in Canada.

Mr. Poilievre looked destined to become the next leader in Canada, where his party sat on a similar The lead to the ballot boxes Just two months ago, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was released for two years of bombing by Mr. Beyviri, forced to step down.

“Pierre Polilifer, to obstruct politics, is one of the most exciting and aggressive artists,” said Ken Bouslexol, a working portfolio of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the governor. “He has the ability to find a weak discount, and go to them in a devastating way.”

“He understands the political game and successfully played this political game, better than almost anyone else.”

However, the 25 -point conservatives advanced in opinion polls rapidly turned into a deficit of the number one as Mr. Trump became the dominant race issue. Opinion polls show that voters believe that Mr. Carney is more suitable for dealing with the American president.

However, the campaign of Mr. Poilievre said relatively little about Mr. Trump and continued to focus on attacking the liberals. Analysts say that many voters link Mr. Poilievre to Mr. Trump, a link that has become a responsibility.

“He and his team will have to get to know the game in a different square at the present time, and how you play in that square may require an offer of other political skills,” said Tim Powers, the governor who worked in many campaigns.

Mr. Powers added: “Part of it appears to people the ability of relativity that is not always related to the sound, the most difficult, and the most aggressive in the room.” “You can listen, the fighting does not always cast the first punch.”

The angry style of Mr. Poilievre in politics has led to the fatigue of Canadian voters and their frustration towards Mr. Trudeau, but now that after he has gone and Canada is threatened, many voters move away from Mr. Poilievre, Following boxes.

“Frankly, I think he is bullying.” “He is trying to intimidate people to vote. I don’t think this is the right approach. This may be the approach that works in the United States, but not for Canadians.”

A spokesman for Mr. Poilievre campaign did not respond to a request for comment on this article.

Professional politician, Mr. Poilievre describes himself as strange because of his origins. He was born in Calgary for a 16 -year -old single mother, and was adopted by teachers and grew up in a middle -class house on the outskirts of the city. He is married to Anaida Poilievre, a Venezuelan immigrant who grew up in Montreal and worked in Parliament. Poilievres has two young children.

Mr. Poilievre has become interested in adolescence politics, where he joined the Islah party, a right -wing popular party embodied in Western Canada from the traditional centers of power, Ontario and Cibik. He studied at Calgary University, where it became a group of political scientists who support the movement known as the “Calgary School”.

Tom Flaangan, a member of the Calgary School that continued during the era of Mr. Harper, said that Mr. Poilievre and other future political leaders were influenced by the university’s climate in the late 1990s.

“Among the students, there was fermentation because of the Islah party,” said Mr. Flaangan. The Islah party merged with the progressive conservatives to form the current Conservative Party in 2003.

Mr. Poilievre Calgary left before graduating to work for a legislator in Ottawa in 2002. After his sudden election at the age of 24, Mr. Poilievre rapidly rose under the leadership of Mr. Harper, who served as Prime Minister between 2006 and 2015.

In Canada’s political culture, it is almost impossible for the individual legislator to propose important draft laws and create a personal legislative record.

Alex Marland, a political scientist at the University of Acadia, said, so Mr. Boelifri succeeded in standing by being a skill in the political theater and social media. Mr. Marland said that Mr. Poilievre also showed a profound understanding of the budget and other politics issues, which prompted a sharp contradiction with other populists such as Mr. Trump and Boris Johnson.

Mr. Marland said: “One of the differences is that Poilievre will most likely remain awake at night in reading everything,” said Mr. Marland.

Two decades from Mr. Biferre in Ottawa overlapped with what Mr. Powers described as the party’s “professionalism” of politics: the wide use of political consultants, building databases to raise funds, communicate voters and use direct communication with voters, including through social media.

Mr. Poilievre is “the first professional politician with the Conservative Party in Canada.” “He spent years studying how to master his craft – he made mistakes all the way. But he is really a professional political, for good or bad.”

Since he became a conservative pioneer in 2022, Mr. Poilievre has a campaign of a traditional conservative message represented in lower taxes, a smaller government and personal freedom, as well as alleviating the regulations for the oil industry and contracting crime.

But it also turned more severely into populism than the former conservatives, said Mr. Flangan.

Mr. Poilievre defended truck drivers who occupied Ottawa for weeks to protest the states of vaccines during the epidemic. He rushed against “utopia”. Mr. Poilievre attacked the main media, preferring interviews with the right -wing media and py Saudi Arabia.

“He is attracting voters,” said Peter Wolstninsovt, a professor of Fakhri at Waterloo University who has also participated in conservative politics for decades. “He does not look forward to collecting a major coalition victory.”

Mr. Jobar, the voter who lives in the Mr. Bifiri area, said he has become exhausting to Mr. Trudeau. But he was planning to vote in favor of the main Poilievre competitor in the region, Bruce Vangue, a liberal candidate who said he knocked 15,000 doors in his attempt to capture Mr. Poilievre.

In the last afternoon, Mr. Vangui was brought down by Brian Valeburam, 64 -year -old, the owner of a restaurant who said he voted for Mr. Polilifri in the previous elections. But now that the main issue of the elections was Mr. Trump, Mr. Valeburam was inclined towards Mr. Carne, who served as the president of Canada Bank and England Bank.

“Carne knows the work,” said Mr. Valeburam. “But Poilievre is a professional politician.”

With the political scene in Canada dramatically, in front of Mr. Poilievre three weeks to find its balance, a challenge even for a person who has political skills and decades at the heart of Canadian policy.

“All he did at all has prepared it correctly for this moment,” said Mr. BoesSenkool, the governor who worked for Mr. Harper. “I will not bet against him, but I will not bet on my house.”