While some Conservative MPs and MLAs openly supported the Freedom Convoy as it began a year ago this weekend, others were highly critical of the protests
OTTAWA — The past year has seen many Canadians become politically engaged for the first time in their lives because of the Freedom Convoy, as well as conservative politicians hoping to bring this potential new pool of voters into the fold.
I’ll be voting PPC as they are the only federal party against the mass immigration scam.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sketched a vision Friday of a country rife with problems caused solely by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and said if he’s refusing to fix them, it’s time to just get out of the way.
Poilievre’s comments kicked off his party’s two-day planning meetings for the coming resumption of Parliament after the winter break.
Canadian constitutional disputes are like zombies. Just when you think they are buried, they rise from the dead, looking to claim their next victim. Politicians often exhume them to boost their standing and win an election. But they had better beware: like most monsters, the undead have no loyalty, and will happily turn on those who resurrect them.
Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre appeared in an unlikely place in Quebec on New Year’s Eve. He joined other politicians including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault in a special rendition of Ukraine’s national anthem on Radio-Canada’s hit satirical news show Infoman.
Poilievre was also uncharacteristically kind to the man he’s been accusing of having broken Canada. Following a clip of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson declaring that “there’s no more fearful despot in the world than Justin Trudeau,” Poilievre said that this was “too much, Justin isn’t that bad.”
I’ve heard politicians say they’ll “Defund The CBC” before, I’ll believe it when I see it.
MONTREAL—It’s hard to get a second chance to make a good first impression. Pierre Poilievre will be trying to do just that as he embarks on an early-year visit to Quebec next week.
The latest Conservative leader has his work cut out for him. In Canada’s second largest province, Poilievre is not only much less popular than his main rivals, but he is also off to a poorer start than his three predecessors.
In voting intentions, the Conservative party lags far behind both the leading Liberals and the Bloc Québécois. At 19 per cent, the party’s Quebec tally is its lowest provincial score.
Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his decision Friday to speak to a think tank that has come under fire for comments on residential schools and discrimination.
“We speak with groups all the time with which we disagree,” Poilievre said in an interview after his speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg.
In 2018, the centre ran radio ads, which were soon pulled, that said it was a myth residential schools robbed Indigenous children of their childhood.
Last summer, the centre posted a commentary on its website that said stories about murdered and secretly buried residential schoolchildren are highly suspicious, if not completely false. And last month, the centre posted an article that said anti-white male policies represent the only systemic discrimination there is.
This time last year, Pierre Poilievre and his inner circle were planning what would turn out to be the most well-executed federal party leadership campaign in modern Canadian history. Today, the same people are wracking their brains trying to figure out how to reverse the opposition leader’s tanking favourability numbers. What a difference a year can make.
Poilievre is no one’s idea of a Monster and CPC policy is little different from the LPC. This article may as well be advising Junior to practice compassionate Liberalism. A few polls by the usual suspects mean nothing in a Canada where the Liberals have been caught deliberately cooking results.
Poilievre mum on Tory MP’s ‘illegal refugees’ comment, calls for Roxham Road closure
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for the closure of the Roxham Road irregular border crossing but side-stepping questions about a Tory MP denying help to a family who used it to enter the country.
Poilievre told reporters today he is in favour of legal immigration but can understand the desperation that leads migrants to cross into Canada through the unofficial entry point south of Montreal.
Pierre Poilievre must do more to win over women voters, including pressing ‘the anger button’ less often
Pierre Poilievre must do more to attract women voters to win a majority in the next election, including “hitting the anger button” less often, say observers, including a senior adviser to former Tory prime ministers.
The Conservative Leader is trailing Justin Trudeau when it comes to support from women, with a recent Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail showing that only 22 per cent think the Tories should hang onto Mr. Poilievre until the next election.
Political commentators say to win a clear majority, Mr. Poilievre must gain the backing of women, including “soccer mums” who may not warm to his “attack dog” rhetoric.
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needed to be firmer in denouncing rhetoric and flags criticizing the prime minister, according to an Alberta political scientist.
During an end-of-year news conference on Friday, Dec. 30, Poilievre said he didn’t like the expletive-laden flags some Canadians are using to insult Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I don’t like the flags, and I don’t like rage,” Poilievre said. “But I think we have to ask ourselves: ‘Why are people so angry?’ And the answer is that they’re hurting.
Who started this crap? Oh yea Erin O’Toole.
OTTAWA — At the same time Ontario police officers escorted home the body of a slain fellow officer, Canada’s Conservative leader called on the government to end “catch-and-release bail” for violent repeat offenders.
OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre says he doesn’t like the expletive-laden flags some Canadians are using to denounce Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
But the federal Conservative leader also says he understands the anger fuelling such displays, and that it is up to the government and politicians to address it.
The comments follow a blog post by Erin O’Toole, who served as Conservative leader before Poilievre.
Nobody embodied positive conservative values better and more efficaciously than US President Ronald Reagan. In 1980, he asked voters if they were better off after four years of then-President Jimmy Carter and he described America as that shining city on a hill with its commitment to the economic freedom of capitalism.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre needs to ask Canadians that question if there’s an election in 2023.
Bureaucratic jargon sucks for everyone — so let’s banish it.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre haș pledged to mandate the use of “plain language” in government if he is elected prime minister. Perplexingly, some critics have found this deeply offensive, going so far as to call it authoritarianism and “mandating newspeak.” Yet progressive governments in other countries have already adopted plain language reforms and seen demonstrable benefits with no significant downsides.
OTTAWA — A young Pierre Poilievre sits in front of a room of Conservative faithful and explains their party’s strategy for winning a majority mandate.
That hasn’t happened yet. It’s 2009 and while the Tories have won two federal elections, they’ve remained in minority territory for three years.
“We will win a majority if we appeal to naturally conservative-inclined voters and get them out to vote, and we turn small-c conservative immigrants into big-C Conservative voters,” the MP says in a video posted to the website of the Cable Public Affairs Channel.
Define present day CPC “Conservatism.” Is it any different from the LPC platform?
The new strategy is just the same old identity politics.
Look at the mess that has left us in.
