Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre saw Carney’s Thucydides in Toronto and raised him a Marcus Aurelius; saw his Vaclav Havel and raised him an Adam Smith and Margaret Thatcher in London, and threw in a Konrad Adenauer in Berlin. In between, mirabile dictu, he had a long chinwag with Peter Mansbridge, the veritable incarnation of Canada’s elite, mainstream, legacy media, to use only the polite epithets heretofore hurled in that direction by the Conservatives.







