Mapping Poilievre's Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Corporate Elite

Credit: DeSmog.com

Key takeaways:

• Pierre Poilievre is closely connected to a network of corporate lobbyists, tech platforms, and oil industry insiders. Many of these figures hold influence within his party’s leadership and campaign structure.

  
  

• Despite claiming to fight for working-class Canadians, Poilievre’s inner circle includes companies accused of price-gouging, polluting, and spreading disinformation. This includes clients like Loblaws, Koch Industries, Enbridge, and platforms like Rumble and X Corp.

  
  

• A detailed map reveals how lobbyists and political operatives with ties to Poilievre are shaping his path to power. Their influence raises serious concerns about whose interests will come first if he becomes Prime Minister.

A new extensive and well-researched "power map" has been published showing the intricate ties between Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre and corporations. Loblaws, Canadian Gas Association, Elon Musk's XCorp, Facebook, Tik Tok, tobacco-giant Rothmans Benson and Hedges... the list goes on.

You can see the full map here: Poilievre Mapped: His Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Right-wing Activists

Most noteabley for me would be the ties between senior members of the Conservative Party's National Council (the party's main governing body, kind of like the RNC or DNC in the US.

Journalist Geoff Dembicki writes:

"Using the map, it’s clear that the Conservative Party’s National Council, the party’s highest authority on governance matters, is a hotbed for corporate lobbyists. That isn’t a coincidence, as Conservative party members several years ago voted down a resolution barring lobbyists from the council, as The Breach reported.

As a result, the organization has members such as Aaron Scheewe, managing director at the lobby group Capitol Hill Group, whose clients include X Corp. — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — as well as MBDA Missile Systems and the Canadian International Pharmacy Association."

You can go here to read the entire story and play around with the interactive map DeSmog has created.