Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. Poilievre has served as a member of Parliament (MP) since 2004.
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Poilievre studied at the University of Calgary, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations. He then worked as an advisor to Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.
Poilievre was first elected to the House of Commons following the 2004 federal election; he at first represented the Ottawa-area riding of Nepean—Carleton and then represented the re-established riding of Carleton.
From 2017 to 2022, Poilievre served as the shadow minister for finance and briefly as the shadow minister for jobs and industry. He ran for leader of the Conservative Party in its 2022 leadership election, winning on the first ballot. Poilievre has been described as a libertarian and populist.
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Pierre Poilievre Parents: Meet Marlene Poilievre and Donald Poilievre
Poilievre was born on June 3, 1979, in Calgary, Alberta to a biological mother who was 16 years old and of Irish Canadian descent on her father’s side, both of whom Poilievre would eventually first meet as an adult.
Poilievre was adopted by schoolteachers Marlene and Donald Poilievre, who is French Canadian, shortly after being born. Poilievre was raised in a modest household in suburban Calgary, he played ice hockey and went on camping trips with his younger brother Patrick, who was also adopted from their biological mother by Marlene and Donald.
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