Pierre Poilievre, the CPC member for Carleton in the Ottawa area, has announced he wishes to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Poiliervre has been urged to run previously but has declined. He was born in 1979 in Calgary and adopted at birth by two schoolteachers. His mother was English-speaking and his father was French-speaking. He grew up and went to university in Calgary. Poilievre’s biological maternal grandfather, whom he first met as an adult, was Irish Canadian.
