Chantal Hébert: Pierre Poilievre’s self-imposed media vacuum is about to face its first test
MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre believes the voters whose support he needs to lead his party to government in the next federal election will not be reached via the mainstream media.On Dec. 12, the voters of the GTA riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore will be going to the polls to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Liberal MP Sven Spengemann last spring.
Of course, the Liberals are not about to give up a GTA seat without a fight. For the first byelection of Justin Trudeau’s third term, his team has drafted former Ontario finance minister Charles Sousa as its candidate. But unless those voters fit into one of the niche constituencies the Conservative leader is targeting for support, they should not count on him to help them fill in the blanks about his political persona.
He also boasted about holding a rare news conference in Toronto. But if that’s the first you’ve heard of it, that’s because the city’s major media outlets, be they print, radio or TV, were not invited. True to his belief about the mainstream media, Poilievre is campaigning off its radar. But based on polling done by Abacus over the past week, the event did not really register with most voters.
Where his predecessors mostly found the parliamentary press to be an asset to amplify their critique of the government of the day and keep them in the public eye, this Conservative leader wears his disdain for its daily coverage on his sleeve.
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