Poilievre, then a freshly elected twenty-five-year-old, stood out as unusually combative. He sought every opportunity to take cheap shots at his opponents, like a trash-talking hockey player, always slashing, trying to draw penalties.
I found his harsh recitations chilling because he gave the impression he would deliver the attacks no matter what the words said, so fierce and remorseless was his partisanship.
Opposition parties and civil society groups thought the new bill would weaken Elections Canada's enforcement arm and make it harder to vote, a milder version of Republican-style voter suppression measures.
Poilievre attacked him by implying he (Elections Canada head) was a Liberal. The "referee should not be wearing a team jersey," he said, a statement calculated to weaken public faith in the independent agency that runs Canadian elections.
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