Conservative Party

When Mark Carney took to the stage at Davos this year, he cast himself as the spokesman for a new alliance of middle powers, banding together against an erratic and aggressive America. Within days, the Canadian prime minister was being hailed as a liberal counterweight to President Trump.

Had events unfolded slightly differently nine months earlier, it would have been Pierre Poilievre, not Carney, representing Ottawa on the world stage. Betting markets last year gave the 46-year-old Conservative from Calgary a 90 per cent chance of becoming prime minister. Instead, a rapid chain of political shocks reshaped the country’s trajectory. It was a case study in how quickly political fortunes can turn. Rather than win the country, Poilievre lost his seat.

At the Conservative Party of Canada’s national convention in Calgary, the proposal to remove the ban on conversion therapy was defeated despite receiving a narrow majority of popular support from delegates. The proposal failed because it did not meet the party’s “double majority” requirement for constitutional and policy changes. Delegates were 52% in favour of opposing the ban. They also debated hot button issues such as DEI, abortion, and immigration. With polarization at an all time high, the issue risks crashing out with alienated grassroots, and not enough competency to discern the subject from atrocious woke policies.

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Former Conservative campaign manager Jenni Byrne says her party’s messaging on the relationship between Canada and the United States is evolving, and should continue evolving as the situation shifts.

Byrne, who is a looming figure in Conservative politics, says linking the trade war with the U.S. to the party’s central affordability message is key to gaining political ground.

“I think you absolutely can do both.… I think it’s staying on top of things, being adaptable and seeing how that is actually going to affect Canadians’ day-to-day life,” Byrne said in an exclusive interview with CBC News.

I’m sure that advice will be well received but to be fair no one anticipated Trump’s election intervention on the LPC’s side.

CALGARY — After a campaign-style speech, heavily borrowed from the Conservatives’ best hits of the 2025 election, Pierre Poilievre secured the leadership of his party with a resounding 87.4 per cent of the delegate vote.

Now, the party must wrestle with the question of what comes next.

Does his solid victory — more than he received in 2022 when he became leader (70.7 per cent) and more than former leader Stephen Harper received in 2005 during his leadership review (84 per cent) — mean Poilievre has no changes to make before the next election? Or does it give him the leash to adjust his offering?

The blitz of “Poilievre’s leadership in jeopardy” articles having failed sees the MSM return to the usual fear mongering nonsense of “CRIME! GUNS! IMMIGRANTS! ETC!”.

It’s like the MSM has a hidden agenda or something.

Party adopting a ‘stand your ground’-style policy, demands crackdown on criminal immigrants

Delegates at the Conservative Party’s national convention in Calgary voted overwhelmingly Saturday to enact a “stand your ground”-style law to allow someone to protect themselves with lethal force against an intruder in their home.

This was one of dozens of policies debated and adopted by delegates at this biannual gathering, many of which focused on crime, immigration and social policy.

After handing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a strong endorsement, party members renewed their policy playbook ahead of the next possible federal election.

“Demands crackdown on criminal migrants” as if that were a bad thing.