The prince  by Aaron Wherry  The Ottawa Citizen profiles Pierre
Poilievre.       The prince    1. I read the whole article to
see if after all the partisan jabs, swipes and evasion, this man
has actually served the public in some way. Out of a long
fawning article listing his many partisan connections — we get
it that he has served his party, that seems to be the only
qualification for membership in the Conservative cabinet — his
single tangible accomplishment in six years as a minister seems
to be a rule change about parental benefits for military
personnel. That’s all well and good but it seems a poor trade-
off for six years of partisan acrimony and bluster.    2. I
wouldn’t give him much credit for knocking off “Liberal
heavyweight” David Pratt. Nepean-Carleton has always been a
Conservative bastion. Pratt, who was almost as conservative as
the PCs, managed to wrest it away from the Tories when the PCs
and Reform were splitting the vote. Once they stopped doing
that, it returned to being yellow dog territo