September 27, 2022 – The ascendance of Pierre Poilievre as leader of the Conservatives is giving his party an advantage in vote intent over the Liberals not seen in more than three years.
Since the 2019 election, the two parties have been locked in what has mostly amounted to a statistical tie in national vote intention – generally driven by the rise and fall the fortunes of the Trudeau government in the moment rather than momentum for the Conservatives.
Now the opposition party – which last month elected its third leader in as many years – is pulling together a right-of-centre base that includes not only its own supporters but those who turned out for the People’s Party in the 2021 general election.
I appreciate that Poilievre is a good deal more fun than past CPC talking heads however once his policy platform is fully fleshed out & examined the swing to the PPC will begin anew.
PP is no Trump, he’s no Rob Ford, he’s entertaining but no disruptor and the party platform will be little different from that of Trudeau’s Liberals on major issues such as mass immigration, defunding the CBC, term limits, defanging the partisan bureaucracy, the green-scam and multicult.
