Career politicians: there is no better way to describe the last three leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada.
"Creatures of government" is also apt.
In general, right-wing activists and conservatives hold a great disdain for anything government and this has only gotten worse as American politics slowly seeps into our national identity.
Seems strange (Alanis Morrisette might even call it 'ironic') that such an anti-government crowd would be so equally passionate about a string of conservative party leaders that have been creatures of government for the vast majority of their careers.
Stephen Harper has worked fulltime in government and political parties for over 37 years. Harper actually began as an organizer for the Young Liberals, then jumped to the Reform party. His only "real world" experience is a stint as president of the right-wing think tank National Citizens Coalition. Other than that he has worked as a party organizer, political assistant and a Member of Parliament until he left the House of Commons in 2016.
Andrew Scheer has worked fulltime in government for the past 20 years. According to his Wikipedia entry he may or may not have been an accredited insurance broker in Saskatchewan prior to his career in government, but the Globe and Mail revealed that there was "no evidence he was accredited." Scheer was elected as a Member of Parliament (Regina-Qu'Appelle) in 2004 and has never looked back.
Pierre Poilievre was first elected to the House of Commons at the age of 25 and has never looked back. While his Wikipedia entry tries to play up his early careers, including a job as a paperboy, Poilievre has been collecting a taxpayer's paycheck for the last 20 years.
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