Anaida Poilievre (; born 1986 or 1987) commonly Ana, is a Canadian political staffer, online magazine publisher, and the wife of Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre.
Early life and education
Poilievre was born in either 1986 or 1987 in Caracas, Venezuela to a father who was a bank manager. In 1995, when she was eight years old, her family moved to the Pointe-aux-Trembles of Montréal, Québec. In Montréal her father worked collecting fruit and vegetables at a farm.
She studied communications at the University of Ottawa.
Poilievre speaks her native language Spanish, and also French and English.
Career
After working in retail and customer service roles, in 2008, aged 20 years, she was employed as a parliamentary affairs Advisor at the Senate of Canada before taking a job in the House of Commons of Canada. In 2013, she started a job working for Claude Carignan as a foreign affairs advisor.
She is a co-founder of Pretty and Smart Co online lifestyle magazine.
In March 2023, conspiracy theorist Chris Sky falsely claimed on Twitter that Poilievre was the CEO of Switch Health, a company that won contracts from the Government of Canada to undertake COVID-19 testing. Sky based his statements on output from ChatGPT artificial intelligence software.
Personal life and views
She married Pierre Poilievre in 2017 in Sintra, Portugal. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic she supported restrictions, but later became critical of public health measures in Canada. She is an active part of Pierre's political life, attending events with him and featuring in a Conservative Party promotional campaign in August 2023.
Poilievre and her husband have two children. Poilievre and her family live in Greely, Ontario and she owns a property in Orleans, Ottawa.
Rape threats
In September 2022, Jeremy MacKenzie, the far-right leader of Diagolon online community, spoke about raping Poilievre. Poilievre's husband Pierre referred the comments to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: "No one should ever be subject to threats of violence or the kind of hatred we’ve seen increasingly... It's important that we all stand up and condemn that." The RCMP are investigating the report.