There appears to be no love lost between Premier Doug Ford’s governing Progressive Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre’s federal opposition Conservatives.
Tensions between the two Tory parties, smouldering for months, have flared up in recent weeks.
In his victory speech after Monday’s Durham byelection, newly elected federal Conservative Jamil Jivani lashed out against “liberal elites,” including those running the show at Queen’s Park.
Conservative candidate Jamil Jivani, a commentator and activist, scored a sizable victory in a federal byelection Monday — a lopsided result the Tories are spinning as an ominous sign for the Liberals in the Greater Toronto Area.
Jivani claimed about 57 per cent of the vote compared to 22.5 per cent for his closest competitor — Liberal candidate and local ward councillor Robert Rock — in this suburban-rural riding east of Oshawa, Ont., on the outskirts of the province’s Golden Horseshoe region.
I hope they keep the momentum. I will likely vote PPC however as they are the only party willing to fix the mass immigration mess.
OTTAWA — Who wins Monday’s byelection in the riding of Durham likely won’t set off a political earthquake in Ottawa — but there could be aftershocks.
The riding, about an hour from downtown Toronto, has returned a Conservative MP consistently since Stephen Harper took over the party in 2004.
It even gave the Tories a leader — Erin O’Toole, whose resignation last year after being kicked out as leader opened the door for Monday’s vote.
OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre has vowed that “Canada will always stand with Ukraine” as the world marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country.
The federal Conservative Party leader posted on social media today, denouncing the “tyranny” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and applauding Ukraine’s “unshakeable resolve and determination.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Poilievre of abandoning Ukraine because of the Conservatives’ opposition to the Canada-Ukraine trade agreement.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promises that if elected prime minister, he will cut “wasteful” funding to “terrorists” and boost Canada’s military.
“My common-sense plan will cut wasteful foreign aid that goes to dictators, terrorists, and multinational bureaucracies and put that money into reinforcing our military,” Mr. Poilievre said to reporters Feb. 15 in Montreal.
“Bring our money home,” he added.
The unbearably oleaginous Justin Trudeau has been Canada’s prime minister since 2015, so there hadn’t been much pleasure in watching politics there for quite a while. But just over two years ago, Pierre Poilievre became leader of the Conservative Party and started exercising his dry wit and even garnering attention here.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging that a future government would cut what he calls “wasteful foreign aid” and would not allow funding to go to “dictators, terrorists and multinational bureaucracies.”
He made the comment Thursday in response to a question about his position on NATO’s military spending targets, as ministers from the military alliance meet in Brussels.
All foreign aid is wasteful.
Only six months after polls first showed the Conservative Party within reach of a majority, new data is now suggesting that they may be on track to capture one of the largest majorities in Canadian history.
Numbers published on Sunday by Abacus Data show 43 per cent of committed voters supporting the Conservatives, against just 24 per cent still intending to vote Liberal.
In a write-up by Abacus CEO David Coletto, the 19-point showing was “tied for the largest national lead we’ve ever measured for the Conservatives.”
h/t DS
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals keep taking punches at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but a new poll suggests they aren’t landing.
The Abacus Data survey, provided exclusively to the Star, suggests a 19-point lead for the Conservatives over the governing Liberals, with the support of 43 per cent of those polled compared to 24 per cent.
The three-point jump for the Tories since the last time Abacus surveyed comes as its latest poll shows the government’s approval rating is down by four percentage points, with 59 per cent of respondents saying they disapprove of the job Trudeau’s government is doing.
SURREY, B.C. — Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government will establish mandatory minimum prison sentences for people convicted of extortion.
The opposition leader says extortion-related crime has skyrocketed with police in multiple provinces dealing with organized crime threats against businesses.
Poilievre’s remarks were delivered in a commercial centre in Surrey, B.C., where police say shots were fired at a business in November.
He should arrest Trudeau first thing.
If journalists in Canada are hoping to convince the public that they’re anything other than paid for hacks of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, they’re going about it in odd ways.
Case in point was the news conference held by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday on the issue of auto theft.
OTTAWA — Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is promising that if his party forms government, car thieves will face more time in prison and be punished more severely if the thefts are linked to organized crime.
Poilievre will make those pledges at a campaign-style event in Brampton on Monday, the Star has learned, his latest effort to flesh out what he’d do if he becomes prime minister, and they’ll be followed by more this week.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is convinced he is really getting under the skin of Justin Trudeau and his Liberals. He may well be correct.
“Yes, I’ve had it up to here with Mr. Poilievre,” Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, one of the steadiest voices in the Trudeau cabinet, said in an interview this week.
Health Minister Mark Holland launched into an impassioned, lengthy diatribe at the microphone on Wednesday, lamenting how Conservatives were profiting from fear and anxiety in the country. It was prompted by questions on how the Liberals are being massively out-fundraised by the Conservatives, according to the latest reports.
In a much-remarked-on recent column — “The case for Trump — by someone who wants him to lose” — Bret Stephens of The New York Times gave U.S. Democrats a wake-up call: “You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable.” Let me provide the same wake-up call to Canadian Liberals about Pierre Poilievre — with the important difference that I want Poilievre to win.
It wasn’t a good look, to put it mildly. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to his caucus the other day to feed them their latest attack lines. These lines included a dog whistle against a popular young politician, Jamil Jivani, who is running to be the Conservative MP in the swing-riding of Durham.
Trudeau was going on a rant against the new additions to the Conservative family under leader Pierre Poilievre—both those who have won recent by-elections and upcoming candidates.
Is it just me or has Trudeau lost his edge? https://t.co/nJqaTAHnU1
— Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@alanfryermedia) January 29, 2024
