Poilievre’s platform offers scant details on foreign policy positions

Pierre Poilievre's campaign website lists only three possible items: make Canada the 'freest nation on earth,' slap sanctions against Iran, and ban oil imports from 'polluting dictatorships.'

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre answers a question during the party's first leadership contest debate, held at the Canada Strong and Free Network’s conference in Ottawa on May 5, 2022. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

July 20, 2022

OTTAWA—The problem for Conservative leadership candidate front-runner Pierre Poilievre—once he takes over the party after the race results are in and gets set to run for the prime minister’s job—will be to balance the payback expected by the far-right populists who got him there, against the...

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