But perhaps no Canadian politician in recent memory has criticized, questioned and ridiculed the media with as much fervour as Poilievre. The potential implications of his approach to journalists for a future Conservative government may be as worthy of consideration as any other aspect of the Conservatives’ bid in the next election.
Poilievre’s combative skirmishes with reporters in recent months may be a manifestation of the rhetorical drumbeat he has been playing since his presidential campaign two years ago .
“The media, the pundits, the professors all say I shouldn’t attack Justin Trudeau as harshly as I have,” he told his supporters in a May 2022 fundraising email.
The following month, he reported that “the corporate media and authority figures are spending a lot of time trying to stop me.”
That fall, after a controversial conversation with a reporter on the Hill , Poilievre wrote that “the media” was “no longer interested in even pretending to be impartial. They want us to lose.”
