Even if Pierre Poilievre wins the next election, this is who will really set the agenda

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : His priorities, he told the former professor turned culture warrior, are all the talking points we know well: "axing the tax," building homes, cutting the federal deficit, etc.
43% : I'd guess that Trump, with his knack for spotting weakness in counterparties, recognizes that Poilievre's 'Canada is broken' rhetoric and his assumptions about the benefits of their ideological kinship is, in and of itself, a weakness to be exploited.
42% : If Poilievre believed he'll somehow be able to make common cause with Trump because of their shared right-wing populism, the events of the past week should disabuse him of the assumption that they'll be easy allies.
41% : What nickname will Donald Trump bestow on Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a politician who shares the president-elect's great love of the school yard taunt?"Governor," needless to say, has been taken.
39% : I raise this point because Trump and his bellicose threats are likely to become Poilievre's headache at some point in the next several months, and we are seeing, in real time, how that highly fluid dynamic is playing out.
36% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump may have another agenda or endpoint in mind, but the fact is that he regards hefty tariffs as a potent source of leverage, and there's no reason to believe the presence of a conservative in the Prime Minister's Office will have any impact on his determination to wield that power.
32% : Ever since Trump won the election in November, Poilievre has publicly behaved as if nothing has changed.

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