TORONTO — On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars jammed roads and parking lots. So many people had shown up that the venue could not accommodate them all.
Inside the hotel ballroom, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre served up a polished 35-minute set of the classics, kicking off his bid for prime minister. He assailed a “radical, borderless, globalist ideology” and “net-zero environmental extremism.” He promised a “big, patriotic, bold and beautiful” tax cut and to stop “crime, chaos and disorder.”
Mainstreet has the Cons ahead again …
Canadian Federal Daily Tracker Poll, Day 28https://t.co/GX6aCyCtT1 pic.twitter.com/JoTWjBzC2b
— Mainstreet Research (@MainStResearch) April 20, 2025
h/t DS
