Online business website Bloomberg has published an article saying Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is far right and the trucker protests across Canada saw people engage in violence. .“What’s noteworthy isn’t so much that the opposition is gaining at a time of general discontent,” said Bloomberg in a Sunday story. .“It’s that it’s doing so with a candidate so openly associated with the far right who’s drawing support from left-leaning young voters opposed to vaccine mandates.”.The story said a Conservative leader in Canada has to shift to the centre to win and govern. It said former prime minister Stephen Harper had this approach, but former Conservative leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole copied him and failed. .The story went on to say Poilievre “offers no centrist message.” It added he supported the trucker protests, and it falsely claimed some of them turned violent. .Despite government-funded media reports Ottawa was almost in a state of anarchy, police statistics showed street crime fell since the start of the Freedom Convoy. .READ MORE: Street crime drops in Ottawa during Freedom Convoy.“We are here out of love for our families, our communities and our nation,” said Freedom Convoy co-organizer Tamara Lich. .Lich said the protestors were “average, peace-loving and law-abiding citizens from all walks of life” and disputed claims the blockade was lawless..Bloomberg said Poilievre has emboldened political polarization by vowing to fire the Bank of Canada governor for stoking inflation. It said Poilievre is wrong to condemn the World Economic Forum and bar his cabinet ministers from going to its events. .The article said what Poilievre is doing is “unfamiliar in the placid waters of Canadian politics and has led many in the liberal strongholds of Toronto and Ottawa to compare Poilievre to Trump.”.The best analogy, it said, to Poilievre is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. .It said Poilievre and Trudeau are similar because they were the same age when they rose to power and are polarizing figures who preach Canadian exceptionalism. .“His version stresses individual freedom, limited government, and deregulation—making Canada ‘the freest nation on Earth’ — rather than central planning and environmental responsibility,” it said.
