Canada’s main opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, a populist inspired by President Trump, was retained as head of the Conservative Party on Friday, despite having led it to defeat last year in an election it had once been expected to win overwhelmingly.
In a speech before the vote at a party convention in Calgary, Alberta, Mr. Poilievre repeated many of the themes from his 2025 campaign, which ended in a loss to the Liberals, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party, in April. Eighty-seven percent of the more than 2,500 Conservatives at the convention voted to keep Mr. Poilievre as their leader, according to results released early Saturday.
The NYTimes is fishwrap.
