March 19, 2026
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
After wrapping up his three-day swing through Texas by pre-taping an “amazing conversation” with Joe Rogan, host of “the world’s biggest podcast” — during which, according to his X recap, he “fought for Canadian workers and Canadian interests,” with the full conversation to air this afternoon — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to hit the stage at New York’s Harvard Club tonight. (6 p.m.)
Poilievre will share his “vision for Canada – United States relations” at a “lecture event” hosted by the Foreign Policy Association, according to the programme, which notes that, in addition to “advocating for tariff-free trade, a robust domestic economy and energy sector and pragmatic cooperation under the Canada – U.S. — Mexico trade agreement,” Poilievre will be “rejecting a permanent rupture with the United States and urging the Canada not substitute China for its largest trading partner.”