Conservative Party

Former foreign affairs minister John Baird was recently Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign co-chair. He tells John Ivison that his protégé has the ability unite the Conservative Party, reach across the aisle in Parliament and to engage with a hostile media.

OK. Do a comparison of LPC and CPC policy when an election is called see if there is any significant difference.

Pierre Poilievre must make an appeal to Canada’s political centre if he wants to win government, former prime minister Brian Mulroney says he told the new Conservative Leader this week over dinner.

Recounting the three-hour Monday gathering at Stornoway, the residence of the leader of the Official Opposition, Mr. Mulroney said Mr. Poilievre can only go so far with his own caucus and constituencies, and therefore has to go beyond them.

“You have got to go fish where the fish are and so we talked about that,” Mr. Mulroney said in an interview with The Globe and Mail on Thursday. “You only win elections in Canada from the centre. You cannot win an election from either extreme. This has been proven time and time again. And anyone who wants to test that theory? Be my guest.”

Barely in office two weeks and already the shift to the mushy middle.

The Conservative Party of Canada is in the lead in the latest Nanos ballot tracking, with the Liberals in second place after a 5 per cent drop over the past four weeks.

The Conservatives are three points above the governing Liberals, with the third place NDP gaining with a six-point rise over the same time period.

Making his question period debut in the House of Commons, Official Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre focused in on the cost of living and the government’s handling of inflation.

Speaking in French, the new Conservative leader asked whether the Liberals would cancel planned “tax increases”—referencing scheduled hikes to the Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance premiums— saying “Canadians just aren’t able to pay.”

Nearly a quarter of Canadians cutting back on food purchases amid high inflation: survey

Amid soaring prices at grocery stores, a new survey has found that 23.6 per cent of Canadians have had to cut back on the amount of food they were buying.

The survey, conducted by Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab in partnership with Caddle, was conducted between Sept. 8 and 10 and involved 5,000 Canadians from coast to coast. Over the last year, 8.2 per cent said they’ve had to change their diet to save money on food and 7.1 per cent said they’ve skipped meals because of the cost of groceries.

Supporters of new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre are united in their certainty that he will be the next prime minister. Where they’re not so united is whether he has the bench strength among current Conservative MPs to build a strong cabinet.

When it comes to nailing down Pierre Poilievre’s economic policy, it can be hard separating the real from the surreal.

There’s the love of cryptocurrency. There’s the too-clever-by-half “Justinflation” slogan. There’s the threat to make central bankers walk the plank.

When he launches into a 500-year-old history lesson on Henry VIII and “Old Coppernose,” you start to wonder how many cannabis shops are in Mr. Poilievre’s neighbourhood.

With Pierre Poilievre’s landslide leadership win, all the moth-eaten political tropes have been dusted off and the dead horses dragged out to be flogged. Prominent among these is angst around the prospective demise of “progressive,” or moderate, conservatism.

People struggling to pay the rent or mortgage, or unable to make a necessary purchase are not worried about trying something different when it comes to government

It was a crushing first ballot victory for Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre. But this win does not mean what most people think.

The first leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, presided over the unification of the Canadian Alliance (formerly known as the Reform Party of Canada) and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Mr. Harper was focused on making the merger work and building a coalition to challenge the Liberals.

Pierre Poilievre’s victory in the Sept. 10 Conservative leadership vote was a seminal moment for the party and the Conservative political movement. It was the first sign in years that Conservatives are focused, united and ready to take on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — and beat him.

Lots of very positive things happening but … we likely have 3 years till the next election and I doubt Junior’s handlers will allow him to call an early one now.

How Pierre Poilievre is winning new support among young, diverse voters

“If you listen to his speeches, it’s very direct, very simple and very relatable for young people who are struggling with inflation issues, who are finding themselves unable to buy a house because things are just too expensive for them,” Park said.

“Some of his messages are very extreme, to be honest, but in a way that satisfies a certain appetite among the Canadian public about a change and an alternative sort of vision that could take them forward and help them plan a new future.”

Meet Canada’s new Tory leader vowing to boot out Justin Trudeau

Canada’s new populist Tory leader claimed Justin Trudeau’s government had ruined “the lives of its citizens” as he kicked off his bid to boot the prime minister out of office.

Pierre Poilievre, 43, has branded the country’s decades-high inflation “Justin-flation” to hammer Mr Trudeau’s public spending levels as he becomes his main challenger.

It was this combative style that propelled him to a landslide victory last Saturday in the Canadian Conservative Party’s leadership election.

OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre began his Conservative leadership campaign with a video featuring him alone, dressed in a dark suit and crisp white shirt, seated at a heavy wooden desk, shelves crammed with books and photos behind him.

His campaign’s final video showed him on a stage in a rumpled blue shirt, sleeves rolled above his wrist, surrounded by thousands of cheering fans.

What took him from one to the other is the story of a politician who had long thought about what he’d do if he became prime minister, and finally decided to give it a try.