After the death of Ledger in 2008, Gibson was criticized for mocking the deceased actor, and later apologized.

During the 2023 Calgary Stampede in July, Poilievre and his wife, Anaida, were photographed posing with a man wearing a shirt with the message "Thank a straight person today for your existence. Poilievre had been endorsed for the leadership by 62 Conservative MPs, more than half of the party's then 119-member caucus in the House of Commons. Homosexuality is considered a crime in most Islamic nations and is taboo in the few countries where it is legal. In June 2022, Poilievre introduced private members Bill C-278, Prevention of Government-imposed Vaccination Mandates Act, which would end federally enforced COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Poilievre announced his support of those in the Canada convoy protest who were protesting peacefully, while denouncing the individuals who were promoting extremism.L'institution du mariage doit être ouverte à tous les citoyens, peu importe leur orientation sexuelle. In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poilievre stated that a government led by him would support Ukraine by bringing in more Ukrainian refugees, providing more weapons to aid to Ukraine, and by supplying Europe with Canada's energy and oil through LNG Canada to help reduce Europe's dependency on energy from Russia. Lee met with Mark Wahlberg for a role in the film, but Wahlberg declined as he was "creeped out" by the script. Poilievre proposes implementing a pay-as-you-go law, requiring the government to offset any new spending with a cut elsewhere. In December, Liberal MPs criticized the audit for being done for partisan reasons and "political games" while Conservative MPs defended the independence of the auditor.

We've engaged hundreds of thousands of middle-school students, not only in this country, but around the world," Flammer said. Poilievre was president of the Young Tories at the University of Calgary, a club composed of both Progressive Conservative and Reform members focused on Alberta politics, where he clashed with Patrick Brown who was the president of the national Progressive Conservative Youth Federation at the time. 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. Also, in either the memo line or in an enclosed note, please state that the gift is made in memory of Sally Ride or to the Sally Ride Pancreatic Cancer Initiative (Fund 4191).In August 2017, new party leader Andrew Scheer selected Poilievre to be critic of the Minister of Finance, with Tom Kmiec as deputy critic. So many of us have benefitted from the housing market insanity, we'll all have to make sacrifices to fix it". I hope the pancreatic cancer community is going to be absolutely thrilled that there's now this advocate that they didn't know about.

Poilievre became active in the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta by participating in meetings of both parties. With the 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal concluding, the Canadian Senate expenses scandal unfolding, and the Senate Reform Act (to allow each province to recommend Senate candidates and impose a maximum 9-year term limit) paused at second reading to hear from the Supreme Court of Canada as to its constitutionality, [74] this position was seen by the media as being one of toughest in the cabinet and consequential to the Conservative Party. Seeking to eliminate the rent the hospital paid, Poilievre introduced, on June 20, 2005, a private member Bill C-414, titled An Act to prevent the Government of Canada from charging rent to non-profit hospitals. He described the bill as "censorship" and used his social media to start an online petition against the bill.Gene Shalit later apologized for his review: "I did not intend to use a word that many in the gay community consider incendiary. I'm a rather out-there advocate for LGBT [lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender] rights — my partner and I have even been arrested a couple of times in public protest! After the death of Elizabeth II in 2022, Jean said that the Queen dismissed Poilievre's petition over the Queen's belief that she cannot intervene in Canadian affairs.