Originally published at National Catholic Register
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Jan. 6 announcement that he intends to resign as Canadian prime minister has shined a bright media spotlight on the man who is the odds-on favorite to succeed him: Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s poll tracker, on Jan. 6, Poilievre’s Conservatives commanded the support of 44% of Canadian voters. The Liberals lagged far behind at only 20%, with the leftist New Democratic Party that has propped up Trudeau’s minority government since 2022 polling even lower at 19%. If these current polling numbers hold up after Trudeau’s departure, Poilievre (who pronounces his name in English as “Paul-ee-ev”) will remain on course to secure a massive parliamentary majority in the upcoming Canadian election that must be held no later than this October.
Like Jordan Peterson, whose recent interview with Poilievre has garnered 42 million views on X since it was posted Jan. 2 on YouTube, Poilievre is a native of Alberta, Canada’s most conservative province. Married since 2017 to his Venezuelan-born wife Anaida, he lives in in Ottawa, where the couple are raising their two young children.
Here are some other relevant facts about Canada’s 45-year-old prime minister-in-waiting:
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