As the Conservatives prepare for their annual convention in Calgary this weekend, hostile voices are trying to undermine them. They are being told to be less hard-edged, to reject populism, to be respectable “team players.”
Yet rejecting populism would be a disaster, one that would destroy all the rebuilding accomplished by the party since 2022. Roughly four in 10 Canadians back the party, and the base itself is strongly supportive of leader Pierre Poilievre.
