The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada

Update: 2025-04-25

Description

For three decades, Pierre Poilievre’s analysis and vision has been shaped by one thinker: Milton Friedman, the godfather of neoliberalism.

Political scholar Ryan Kelpin sits down with Martin Lukacs to discuss the radical economist’s influence on Poilievre.

Comments

In Channel

The NDP’s untapped radical potential

2025-09-0501:04:44

Carney’s military spending spree

2025-08-2939:21

Canada's new rhetoric, same complicity on Gaza

2025-08-1441:40

The fight to get cops out of schools

2025-07-2459:00

The Canadian media cover-up of the Gaza genocide

2025-07-1746:25

What our movements can learn from water

2025-07-1038:17

Manufacturing transphobia in Canada

2025-07-0328:46

How to win like Mamdani (even in Canada)

2025-06-2732:48

Israel’s war, Iranians’ nightmare, Canada’s complicity

2025-06-1938:40

Canada’s new plan to fast-track Indigenous land theft

2025-06-0528:04

Pop goes the right to protest

2025-05-3043:10

NDP insiders are cooking the leadership race

2025-05-1536:10

Carney beats Conservatives—with their own agenda

2025-05-0146:00

The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada

2025-04-2548:23

Vibe checking the election debate

2025-04-1839:37

The post-reconciliation election

2025-04-1138:37

Don’t count out Pierre Poilievre yet

2025-04-0342:27

The market won’t house you

2025-03-2148:09

The crime of land defence

2025-03-1423:00

Mark Carney’s centrist Hail Mary

2025-02-2036:57

00:00

The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada

#box-pro-ellipsis-175760582483359{-webkit-line-clamp:2;}The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada

The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada

The Breach

The radical thinker behind Poilievre’s plans for Canada