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Pierre Poilievre

Role
Canadian opposition leader
Lived
1979–
Country of activity
Canada Canada
Strongest axis
Markets 83%

Pierre Poilievre has led the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition since 2022. First elected to Parliament in 2004, he campaigns on repealing carbon taxes, cutting taxes and spending, and increasing housing supply.

In the 12 Axes register, Pierre Poilievre leans hardest on Planned – Markets: Markets 83%; the register median is Planned 68%.

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The twelve axes

Where Pierre Poilievre sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

Federal 68%Unitary

Federal

Federal parliamentary system; respects provincial jurisdiction

Democratic 68%Autocratic

Representative Democracy

Conservative leader since 2022; won Battle River-Crowfoot in 2025

SecurityFreedom 83%

Libertarian

Bill C-278 would ban federal vaccine mandates

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism 68%

Anti-Interventionist

"Canada First" agenda on economy and energy

MilitaristPacifist

Neutral

Pledges to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces

AssimilationistMulticulturalist

Centrist

Wants immigration cut to levels housing can absorb

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 83%

Capitalist

Campaigns to scrap carbon taxes and cut income taxes

PlannedMarkets 83%

Free Market

Pro-market, pay-as-you-go budget rule

IsolationismGlobalism 68%

Free Trade

Backed Bill C-5 to remove interprovincial trade barriers

Society

IrreligiousReligious

Moderate

Raised Catholic; platform centres on economic issues

ProgressiveTraditional 68%

Conservative

Says female spaces should exclude biological males

Acceleration 68%Bioconservative

Technological

Wants Canada to be "blockchain capital of the world"

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Planned – Markets

On Planned – Markets, Pierre Poilievre is at Markets 83%. The register median is Planned 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Democratic – Autocratic

On Democratic – Autocratic, Pierre Poilievre is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.

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Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Humberland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].