Canada Populist Taps Discontent In a Bid to Lead

In early 2022, much of Canada ’s political establishment lined up to blast the Freedom Convoys —lines of truckers who blocked access to the country’s capital to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

- By VIPAL MONGA And PAUL VIEIRA

But not Pierre Poilievre. The opposition Conservative Party lawmaker embraced the truckers like no other mainstream Canadian politician. He used their objections to lockdowns, vaccines and mask mandates to create