National Post: 'Others shake with fear, or affect so to shake, that Poilievre’s leadership would mean the advent of “hard right-wing” politics, and even worse, the arrival of that most ominous atmospheric, the polar vortex of democratic politics — Trumpism — in this sweet and once untroubled dominion.
'Pierre Poilievre? Surely not. There is a bookkeeper element to Mr. P.’s personality (and all hail the bookkeepers, as fine a class of people as you would wish to meet), which contrary to stale stereotype I mean as a compliment. Some of my best friends are bookkeepers. They are quiet, demure and sane.
'He is far more temperate than wild, more disposed toward argument and analysis than squalls of rhetoric and unanchored demagoguery. And he has a distinct disinclination to pose. No flowing garments would be ascending to the PM’s office or taken on a tour of a foreign land.'