Pierre Poilievre's "F+" score as a party leader is based on assessment of his personal leadership on 8 measurement categories relating to policy, voting, or actions, summarized as follows:
For the first 15 years of his career as an MP, Poilievre boasted a perfect voting record on life & family issues. Suddenly however, in 2020, while he was planning a run for the Conservative leadership, he decided to abandon his socially conservative beliefs, and began to vote like a pro-death Liberal. He voted against a bill to criminalize sex-selective abortions, and in support of Justin Trudeau's parental prosecution bill, C-6, which aimed to put parents in jail for up to five years for affirming their sexually-confused child in the body in which he or she was born.
During the 2020 Conservative Leadership race, Poilievre jettisoned his previous pro-life beliefs and declared himself to be "pro-choice" on the question of killing babies in the womb. Poilievre also gave the impression to reporters that if elected Leader of the Conservative Party, he would allow backbench MPs to bring forward pro-life private members bills, but, disgracefully, he would also ensure the defeat of any such pro-life private member' bill or motion.
In a subsequent interview with the Toronto Star, a Poilievre spokesperson clarified that Pierre would allow MPs to vote their conscience on abortion-related private members bills, but that they would not be "adopted" by his government, and that he would personally vote against any such bills.
Poilievre has continued to soothe the concerns of legacy media reporters by reassuring them that he "will not introduce or pass a law banning abortions", signifying he has no intention of ending the decades-long regime of killing pre-born children in Canada.
On a slightly more positive note, in 2024, Poilievre replied to a pro-life supporter, via email, that: “Pro-life Canadians are welcome in our party”. In the exchange, Poilievre also stated that "there are many other ways to support women who want to bring a child into the world.I do not believe that abortion should be the only option available to women faced with an unexpected pregnancy. We can ease the challenges of putting a child up for adoption by supporting women through all nine months of pregnancy. I will also stand up against attempts by the government to attack organizations that help pregnant women. I believe focusing on bills that promote adoption and help pregnant women through crises would do greater good.”
Poilievre opposes puberty blockers and sex change surgery for children under 18, and believes there are only two genders, "man and woman":
Although he once spoke eloquently in defense of the true definition of marriage between one man & one woman, he publicly abandoned this principled position in 2020 and threw his support behind the homosexual agenda instead.
Under Poilievre's tenure as Leader, we've witnessed the most egregious and disgraceful attack on party democracy by any CPC leader yet. Poilievre robbed tens of thousand of local party members of their right to vote for the nomination candidate of their choice. The undemocratic skullduggery that took place under Poilievre (and through his key staff, Jennie Byrne and Michael Crase) included:
The nomination process in Poilievre's CPC has become very "closed" and anti-democratic, just like the Liberals'.Paradoxically, this corruption only serves to demotivate the party's most loyal supporters and suppress the Conservative base at election time in all the ridings where these unscrupulous appointments were made.
Poilievre demonstrated a tremendous lack of respect for free speech, engaging in cancel culture to punish and silence the pro-life Alberta MP, Arnold Viersen, simply because he expressed his pro-life, pro-family Christian beliefs during an interview.
Under Poilievre's leadership, we also witnessed the spectacle of blatant cheating at the 2023 Conservative Party Policy Convention in Quebec City where the then-Party President stacked the room with party staffers, ordered the doors of the meeting room locked to prevent all eligible delegates from entering, demanded all phones and cameras to be turned off so there could be no video evidence of the cheating he was about to conduct, and then blatantly lied about the vote count in order to declare constitutional amendments that clearly passed by a majority vote, as "defeated". These constitutional amendments were targetted at the direction of Poilievre's office because they would have placed more power in the hands of grassroots members, where it belongs, instead of being concentrated solely in the hands of the Leader's office and the red Tory-dominated National Council.
Admirably, Poilievre voted against the legalization of marijuana, a dangerous gateway drug that often leads to harder substances like cocaine and heroin, and which a growing body of evidence suggests is causing psychosis in some users.
Poilievre has also taken a fairly strong stand in condemning the "safe injection sites" established all over the country by the Trudeau regime, and which are causing a dramatically increasing rate of overdose deaths and crime.
Poilievre disgracefully revealed himself to be an enemy of parental rights (and science), by voting to pass Bill C-6, Justin Trudeau's so-called "conversion therapy" legislation that would jail parents for up to 5 years if they dare to affirm their gender-confused child in his or her biological sex.
More recently, after Alberta and Saskatchewan came out with strong parental rights policies, Poilievre made friendly noises towards parental rights, but not enough to redeem him for the C-6 vote.
In June 2023, after the New Brunswick government protected parents rights by requiring schools to obtain parental consent before transitioning their kids at school, Poilievre commented that Justin Trudeau should “butt out” of such decisions, after the latter condemned the provincial policy change.
By August 2023, Poilievre sharpened his position, stating that schools should focus on “teaching the basics” like math and reading, while leaving discussions about LGBTQ issues to parents. He added, “We want every parent to have the freedom to raise their kids with their own values,” signaling a clear preference for parental control over educational content.
However, these very positive recent moves towards parental rights by Poilievre cannot erase his YES vote on the so-called "conversion therapy ban". Until he recants that vote and apologizes, he cannot be considered pro-parental rights.
NOTE: Always make your voting decision based on the merit of your local candidates, not the Party Leaders. If a local candidate in your riding has a green light rating from Campaign Life Coalition, vote for them, even if the Party Leader disappoints.
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