On April 24, a TikToker uploaded several videos of Pierre Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, being grilled by supporters outside Elks Lodge in North Bay, Ontario. In one of them, a member of the group, an older woman, says she drove four hours to meet him. “I want you to know that I have been following you and watching you, and you have given me so much hope,” she says. “There’s times you actually brought me to tears.”
However, she has questions for the forty-three-year-old Conservative politician: Has he confronted Justin Trudeau about all the money the prime minister has reaped from vaccines? (This is in reference to a rumour that spread on Facebook and Twitter in January 2022—and was swiftly debunked—that Trudeau’s family had shares in a Vancouver-based biotech company that produced a key component of the Pfizer vaccine.) A man, standing behind the woman, chimes in: “$70 million in two years.” Poilievre says no, he hasn’t spoken to him.
