Dan Lett: Anti-immigrant twitch proof of Poilievre’s increasingly unpopular hand

February 24, 2026

Dan Lett/Winnipeg Free Press: Why is Poilievre’s eruption of concern about refugee health benefits and deportations a tell? Because right-of-centre politicians who are vulnerable and bleeding support — both inside and outside their parties — often try to whip up hysteria about immigration as a way of diverting attention from their own weaknesses…