The front-runner to head Canada's Conservatives and likely challenger to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is staging a rare series of attacks on the central bank as inflation soars, in a strategy to win party leadership that could hurt his chances in a general election.
Since February, Pierre Poilievre, a bespectacled 42-year-old suburban Ottawa lawmaker dubbed "Skippy" for his youthful enthusiasm, has marched ahead in the Conservative leadership race by tapping into angst over pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates.
"Is damaging the central bank? I don't think so," Dodge told Reuters. "Is he damaging himself as a potential prime minister? Absolutely." The bank has ended its bond-buying program and is in the process of raising rates to cool what it calls an "overheating" economy. Frank Graves, president of pollster Ekos Research, said Poilievre "is nurturing exactly the same forces that Trump nurtured." Graves calls this voter pool "ordered populists" and says they share the same values on both sides of the border, including a "deep institutional mistrust."
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