Canada's Conservatives on Saturday picked Pierre Poilievre, a veteran parliamentarian who has promoted bitcoin as way to fight inflation, to spearhead the party's bid to oust the Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Poilievre, 43, won leadership in the first round of a ranked ballot vote in which more than 400,000 members cast votes. Poilievre becomes the sixth Conservatives leader since 2015, a period in which they have lost three elections to Trudeau.
The party toned down the event, which had been scheduled for months, after the death of the queen on Thursday, starting it with a minute of silence in her honor. Earlier on Saturday, Canada proclaimed Charles king in a formal ceremony.As a member of the Commonwealth of former British empire countries, the monarch is Canada's formal head of state.
While the new Conservative chief is well known in Ottawa, where he has regularly stood in parliament to fire pointed criticism at Trudeau and his government, he will now have to bolster his profile with the rest of Canada.
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