Poilievre kicking off the summer with a campaign-style RV tour of Quebec

With the House of Commons adjourned for the summer, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is taking his political message on the road in a campaign-style RV trip around Quebec.

Poilievre will visit a number of Quebec ridings over the next few weeks in an RV that features a photo of himself and his family along with a «Common Sense» slogan.

Poilievre told Radio-Canada that the tour is about «listening to Quebecers» and talking to them about cost-of-living issues.

«Politicians and the federal government don't care about Quebecers now,» he said in French.

«The centralist and inflationist government of Justin Trudeau costs too much. I want to lower those costs for Quebecers and share my common sense plan.»

Conservatives have enjoyed a strong lead in national polls recently, but surveys released this week by Abacus and Angus Reid show the Tories trailing the Bloc Québécois in Quebec.

The objective of the RV tour is to send a «strong signal» that the Conservatives have Quebec's interests «at heart,» Poilievre's Quebec lieutenant Pierre Paul-Hus told the Canadian Press in a French interview.

«The image that people currently have of Pierre Poilievre is the guy who fights in the House of Commons. It's the image that is on TV that people see,» Paul-Hus said. «But the man, the human who shakes hands, who chats with you, every time someone meets him and talks to him, they say, 'Wow, that's not how I saw him.'»

Quebec Conservative MPs have been using their time in question period to accuse the Bloc of propping up the Liberal government. But the Conservatives also appear to be going after Liberal ridings in the province.

Poilievre held a rally in the Montreal riding of Mount Royal on Wednesday night, where he introduced Neil Oberman as the