{"id":699928,"date":"2026-05-28T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:40:12","slug":"poilievre-legault-spotted-cheering-for-the-habs-at-bell-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699928\/","title":{"rendered":"Poilievre, Legault spotted cheering for the Habs at Bell Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre caught the Habs fever.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta born-and-raised politician shared a video Wednesday evening on X of himself wearing a Montreal Canadiens jersey, standing outside the Bell Centre ahead of Game 4 in the semifinal series against the Carolina Hurricanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Standing beside him are Conservative Quebec MPs Jason Groleau, Pierre Paul-Hus and Gabriel Hardy, all wearing the team\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to support les Habitants!\u201d Poilievre exclaimed in French. \u201cGo Habs Go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades before becoming official opposition leader, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa%20%26%20area\/pierre-poilievre-the-minister-of-nepean-carleton\">Poilievre played amateur hockey as a 14-year-old<\/a>, and reportedly supported the national sport during the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>Also seen at the Bell Centre for Game 4 is longtime vocal Canadiens fan, former Quebec premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReady for Game 4!\u201d he wrote in a post on X, featuring a photo of him in front of the Bell Centre rink.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre caught the Habs fever. The Alberta born-and-raised politician shared a video Wednesday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-699928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}