Trying to tie Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to Donald Trump may not be the trump card the Trudeau Liberals think it is. For months, the Liberals have been trying to hurt Poilievre’s support among voters by connecting him to the presumptive Republican candidate.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a campaign-style speech Sunday to rally his MPs ahead of Parliament’s return on Monday, vowing that the Official Opposition will push for lower taxes and spending, a boost in the supply of housing and tougher penalties for criminals.
Mr. Poilievre made the comments Sunday in a public speech to his caucus of MPs, who then met privately for several hours to discuss strategy.
A new Abacus Data poll suggests that many voters don’t see similarities between the former president and the Conservative leader.
OTTAWA — It was an attack ad that had Liberals buzzing: video clips of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments juxtaposed with those of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
It wasn’t meant as a compliment: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made no secret of the fact he views Trump as a risk to Canada and thinks Poilievre is cut from the same cloth.
The Liberals are unable to run on their dismal record so their media has been told to go the “Worse than Hitler” route.
The New York Times is still trying to explain Donald Trump to Americans. The effort might seem a bit late, but the fact that it’s still necessary underlines just how comprehensively Trump’s army of adversaries have failed to figure him out.
Federal Conservatives are polling consistently ahead of their rivals and large crowds are turning up for rallies featuring leader Pierre Poilievre, but some party stalwarts and political observers say such positive developments aren’t nearly enough to guarantee electoral success.
The Conservatives need to take steps this year to maintain their momentum, they say, such as moderating the party’s message to win over non-Conservative voters, rolling out policy proposals – and taking nothing for granted.
OTTAWA — A prominent conservative commentator wants to run as a Conservative MP in the next federal election, adding to the names being bandied about for who might govern alongside Pierre Poilievre if he wins.
The party currently holds 117 seats, and would need to win at least 172 to form a majority government. Who could fill out those spots is a question coming up more and more often in political conversations as polls suggest the Conservatives are on the road to power.
Pierre Poilievre is the first conservative leader in the modern age to effectively deal with the national mainstream media on his own terms—unapologetically, and unassuming that they intend to be fair with you.
There is no denying that Poilievre has bested Trudeau’s greatest election asset.
OTTAWA — Accusations of liberal media bias usually come in two distinct flavours.
There are boisterous complaints about “Justin journos” sucking up to the government, purveying “fake news” and peddling lies for partisan and ideological purposes.
OTTAWA — It used to be that whenever news broke on Parliament Hill, politicians would run to the news reporters to get a quote in the newspaper or on TV.
Not anymore. In the era of TikTok and YouTube, they pick up their phones and start livestreaming.
Call it the Poilievre effect.
OTTAWA — If Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s documentary about housing in Canada released earlier this month seemed like an eccentric attempt at political communications, the party has now upped the ante with a multi-part series on the prospect of a debt crisis in Canada.
Pierre Poilievre, “Newsmaker of the Year,” is crushing it in polls. The Liberals call him our Trump. So this may surprise you:
Someone I know in the U.K. says traditional Conservatives there who fear going the MAGA way, see Poilievre as a role model. The surprise isn’t that they watch Canadian politics; it’s that they admire Poilievre’s moderation and centrism. He takes them back to the era of Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, before Thatcher went all Reagan and radical, leading them to botch Brexit and fall into their current bottomless leadership catastrophe.
OTTAWA—How does Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pronounce his last name? What does he think about the recent UN vote on the Israel-Hamas war? Would he cut immigration?
As Poilievre marked the end of his first full year as Opposition Leader, he did rounds of year-end media interviews, though has thus far declined the Star’s request to chat.
But we listened to 10 interviews with journalists across the country, and while they were replete with his regular stock answers on housing, carbon pricing and personal attacks on the Liberals and New Democrats, they did shed some new light on who Poilievre is and what he’d like to do if he was prime minister.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he maintains a commitment to “parental rights” in schools, while making a play for disaffected NDP voters and laying out a different approach for limiting emissions, in an exclusive National Post video interview with columnist Rex Murphy.
This past week, two developments attracted the nation’s attention.
Pierre Poilievre released a 15-minute video on Canada’s “housing hell” that has, at the time of writing, garnered 4.8 million views. And the CBC announced they would be cutting 10 per cent of its workforce.
What does a politician’s message on Canada’s housing crisis have to do with mass layoffs at our public broadcaster?
OTTAWA — If there is a common feature of the populist eruptions around the world this year it may be the belief that everyone in charge is just not up to the job.
Elites, experts, sacred institutions and, yes, even gatekeepers have been widely maligned.
And there are as many flavours of populism as there are countries. In Holland, long-time anti-immigrant campaigner Geert Wilders won the most seats in the recent general election, but may struggle to form a governing coalition.
Poilievre’s Housing doc.
Housing hell: How we got here and how we get out. pic.twitter.com/vVLsXMVM35
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) December 2, 2023
