@Remius
Background and childhood[edit]
Poilievre was born on June 3, 1979,
[4] in
Calgary, Alberta to a 16 year-old biological mother, who was of
Irish Canadian descent on her father's side.
[3][5] Poilievre was adopted by schoolteachers Marlene and Donald Poilievre, who is
French Canadian,
[6] shortly after being born.
[3][7] Poilievre was raised in a modest household in suburban
Calgary, he played
ice hockey and went on camping trips with his younger brother, Patrick, who had also been adopted from their biological mother by Marlene and Donald.
[8]
Growing up, Poilievre worked as a
paperboy for the
Calgary Sun.
[9] He attended
Henry Wise Wood High School,
[10] and was on a
wrestling team until he was forced to stop due to a temporary
shoulder tendinitis injury, at the age of 14. Following the injury, Poilievre attended an Alberta Tory riding-association meeting as a new hobby.
[8] As a result, he became interested in politics and started reading political books, including
Milton Friedman's
Capitalism and Freedom, a book that greatly influenced his politics.
[8]
Poilievre became active in the
Reform Party and the
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta by participating in meetings of both parties.
[8][11] At the age of 16, Poilievre sold Reform Party memberships for
Jason Kenney and also did
telephone canvassing for him.
[12] He also knocked on doors for political campaigns and served on a
riding association. Shortly after turning 17 years old, Poilievre was a delegate to the Reform Party 1996 national convention in
Vancouver,
British Columbia. Poilievre's parents, Marlene and Donald, who had married in 1971, separated when he was in his mid-teens. Poilievre's father, Donald, later came out as a
gay man.
[8]
Source
en.wikipedia.org
So elites come from modest backgrounds? Elites deliver newspapers? What elites compete in wrestling? He played ice hockey and went camping. Whats so elite about that?
You threw something out there that isn't true. and doesn't stick.
