Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is already reshaping conservatism in the English-speaking world.
In the past month alone, Poilievre has been held up as an example for British Conservatives to follow in articles published in the Times and the Telegraph, two influential right-leaning British newspapers.
In an interview with the Times, British Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick called Poilievre the “most apt lodestar” for his party in 2024.
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party is testing a group of digital ads and is producing a series of broadcast advertising, including negative ads targeting his Conservative rival, as the Liberal leader insists he is staying on to lead the party into the next election.
The digital ads, in English and French, were produced over the past two weeks, while the broadcast ads are in production, with the aim being not just to highlight the government’s work and themes, but to paint the contrast with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, said a party source with knowledge of the campaign in the works, who spoke on a background-only basis.
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In a little over a year at the latest, but possibly as soon as December if the Trudeau government collapses, Canada goes to a general election. While it is always risky to call results in advance, on present indications it is very likely that Pierre Poilievre will become prime minister.
That’s the good news. But disappointment could follow close behind. Canadians are apparently ready for change alright, but unfortunately for the Conservatives, the expectations are enormous and not all are reasonable. But they exist, and after nine years of Liberal mis-rule, who can blame them?
Tory leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters the Trudeau Liberals’ Thursday morning immigration announcement was a desperate attempt to gain support ahead of the next election.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Immigration Minister Marc Miller this morning announced an immigration cap, with 2025 quotas for 2025 falling from 500,000 to 395,000. Trudeau also confirmed he has every intention to stay on as prime minister and leader of the Liberal party.
You could call it Pierre Poilievre’s blind spot.
Because the Conservative leader sees politics through the prism of a game — as calculated moves required to crush your opponents and avoid the traps they have laid — rather than as a means towards a policy end, he’s losing sight of the larger picture.
At issue, of course, is Poilievre’s unwillingness to obtain a security clearance.
While there are no inevitabilities in life, it seems at least close to inevitable that the next government will be a Conservative one; and, what’s more, the party appears to be on the precipice of winning a historic majority of well over 200 seats. But this is old (and increasingly less interesting) news. While a weary government continues to delay, Conservative attention has increasingly moved towards the questions of what needs to happen after the election. This includes the as-of-yet unresolved but necessary articulations of how the party will, first, actually accomplish the broad agenda they have set for themselves and, second, do so off of the support of a manageable electoral coalition that is sizable enough to stay in power.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s in favour of mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment for kids and prisoners who are found to be incapable of making decisions for themselves.
He said earlier this summer he was open to the idea, but needed to study the issue more closely.
I can’t wait for the screeching to begin.
For the second time this week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took a more hawkish stance on Iran and its regional allies than Canada or the United States, pressing the Trudeau government Thursday to add the Houthis, the Iran-allied group in Yemen, to Ottawa’s list of terrorist entities.
Poilievre’s remarks came days after he said he backed Israel’s right to hit nuclear facilities in Iran.
Commemorating the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7th should have been an emotional moment for agreement on all sides in the House of Commons. Instead, Canadians got a front-row seat to the fear now raging in Conservative ranks as they face the possibility that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be replaced prior to the next election.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s blistering personal attack against Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly(opens in a new tab) will continue to play out in the House even though Speaker Greg Fergus has now asked him to apologize.
Joly? Really? Mulcair is drug addled.
Speaker Greg Fergus ruled Tuesday that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won’t be allowed to speak in the House of Commons for the rest of the day after he refused to withdraw his claim that Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is pandering to Hamas.
In question period Monday, Poilievre asked Joly to condemn what he called “genocidal chants from hateful mobs” during recent protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Police have opened investigations into alleged hate speech following some rallies and charges have been laid in some cases.
Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. And hyperbole has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to communicate.
But has any Canadian politician in recent memory embraced rhetorical conflict as enthusiastically as Pierre Poilievre?
For the Conservative leader, there seems to be no such thing as overstatement. And he seems to feel it’s almost always worth going on the attack.
I am doubtful of Poilievre on the matter of mass immigration and it is likely I will vote PPC on that issue alone however he reaches Canadians for a very simple reason.
After years of Trudeau’s lies, the scandals, the graft, his lunatic obsession with changing the weather, and of course the destruction of our economic and social stability through his ruinous mass immigration policy Canadians have found a voice speaking in their defence.
Trudeau has never “listened” to Canadians instead he has governed like a high school tyrant, a ‘mean girl’ and a really stupid one at that.
If there is conflict in the land you can trace it back to Trudeau.
Trudeau’s media is resorting to tone policing because Poilievre resonates with Canadians and they fear the loss of press subsidies.
The Conservative leader has gone on an ethnic media charm offensive, one feature of his strategy to reach diverse voters in Liberal dominated areas like the Greater Toronto Area.
OTTAWA—He’s railed against mainstream media he says is “bought-and-paid-for” by the Trudeau government. He routinely bickers with a parliamentary press gallery he accuses of being biased.
But on a warm June evening at his Stornoway residence in Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was on a media charm offensive.
Quebec Premier François Legault denied he was endorsing the federal Conservative Party when he last month called on the Bloc Québécois to vote for a Tory confidence motion to bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
No one in the Quebec media seemed to believe him.
The small group of young advisors who ran Pierre Poilievre’s campaign to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada two years ago started out worried. Politicians in their large and sparsely populated country tend to avoid holding rallies; to get to meetings, people have to drive distances that the British mind might find hard to fathom. There’s a constant paranoia about not being able to fill the room.
“Within about a week we realised that wasn’t going to be a problem,” says Ginny Roth, who was in charge of communications for the campaign. “We knew Pierre was popular online but we didn’t know how that would translate on the ground. In fact, we were soon having to book bigger venues.”
“Young people will change the world,” we often hear. And the implied change is always the same: a leftward shift. Youth are naturally rebellious, we’re told, and they’re bound to cast aside hidebound conservative ways. This has generally been true for Western and Central European youth, who have tended to lean left. The French coalition of far-left parties known as the New Popular Front got nearly half the 18- to 24-year-old vote and 38 percent of the 25- to 34-year-old vote in the last election, and the German Green Party would hold a majority today if only 18- to 34-year-olds voted. But now youth voting patterns seem to be changing. The surge of right-wing parties in recent European elections won significant support from people of all ages. And we can expect the proportion of right-wing youth to grow as liberal and left-wing parties get crazier. Indeed, this is what has happened in Canada.
