Pierre for Canada!
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What the election of Pierre Poilievre would mean for Canadian Jews
The Conservative politician poised to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada took a hitchhiking trip through Israel in his youth, has referred to Canadian Jews as “the true Indigenous people,” condemned campus protests against the Gaza war as antisemitic and is staunchly pro-Israel.
“The Jewish people are the only people I know of who, in the same language, worship the same faith on the same land in the same country as they did 3,000 years ago,” Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, said at an Orthodox Montreal-area synagogue last March.
Poilievre, 45, held a commanding 24-point lead over Trudeau’s Liberal Party in polls taken before Monday’s announcement that Trudeau would soon step down as prime minister after nine years in office. He will be replaced at least temporarily by a new head of the Liberals, who would face off against Poilievre in national elections now scheduled for October but likely to happen earlier.
Canada’s 335,000 Jews welcomed Trudeau’s exit after a rise in antisemitic attacks including firebombs and gunshots at local synagogues since Oct. 7 and protests over the war. Trudeau was critical of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, announced he would enforce the ludicrous International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and faced backlash for backing a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.