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Pierre Poilievre says he supports “all Canadians who peacefully stand up for their rights” amid reports a second so-called convoy protest is planned for Ottawa.

In a statement Tuesday, Poilievre denied claims the presumptive Conservative leadership frontrunner would greet the potential protest planned for Canada Day in Ottawa.

But he called vaccine mandates “unfair, unscientific bullying” and said he encourages “everyone to keep protesting government attacks on our freedoms.”

Supports but will not meet them. Wishy one day, Washy the next. That is so O’Toole.

Two years ago, Jean Charest suggested the Conservative Party had changed from what he once knew.

Today, he’s seeking to lead it. In an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Charest remained adamant he can win the party’s leadership race, despite claims from his rivals that they have signed up hundreds of thousands of members.

Delusional? Given the way the last two CPC leaderships have turned out anything is possible.

Here’s why a Pierre Poilievre victory in the Conservative leadership race may not be a given

OTTAWA — On the surface, the math looks obvious: Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre claims his supporters equal roughly half of the total number of people expected to be eligible to vote in the party’s leadership race.

So even though the ballots aren’t even in the mail and the victor won’t be announced until Sept. 10, is the race already over?

It’s not quite that simple.

Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre’s campaign issued a formal complaint to the Conservative Party of Canada alleging paid-for party membership fees and other undeclared expenditures by opponent Patrick Brown’s team, the National Post has learned.

Conservative Party of Canada leadership contender Jean Charest is accusing rival Pierre Poilievre of exaggerating his membership count, calling the claim “Pierreinflation.”

The former Quebec premier says the Poilievre campaign’s assertion that they’ve signed up 311,958 Canadians thus far to support their team is “all spin.”

“At the rate it’s going, we call it ‘Pierreinflation’ in terms of recruiting members. I think he’s recruited members in the state of Maine and New Hampshire if you’re to follow his logic… He keeps inflating the numbers, no one believes the numbers,” he told CTV’s Question Period.

OTTAWA — Is Pierre Poilievre’s victory as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada inevitable? It seems more and more like that could be the case, even though opponents are questioning his membership numbers.

Poilievre’s senior advisor Jenni Byrne raised many eyebrows when she revealed that the campaign had allegedly sold nearly 312,000 memberships on Poilievre’s website, a number that, if accurate, would represent about half of the “well over 600,000” total memberships sold as of the June 3 cutoff date.

Brampton, Ont. Mayor Patrick Brown said Thursday he won’t run for the federal Conservatives if his main rival for the leadership, Pierre Poilievre, wins the party’s top job in the September leadership election.

In an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics, Brown said he’s confident he can win the leadership but, if he falls short, he’d also consider running under the party banner in the next election if former Quebec premier Jean Charest or MP Leslyn Lewis wins the leadership.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

After their party lost another federal election last year, the Chinese Canadian Conservative Association (CCCA) made some striking comments about the Tory platform — and Canada’s relations with Beijing.

Pierre Poilievre’s campaign to lead the federal Conservatives has shaken up the race, saying it has signed up more than 300,000 new members, but his rivals insist that the battle to succeed former leader Erin O’Toole is far from over.

Jenni Byrne, senior adviser to the Ottawa-area MP, said his camp had signed up 311,958 new members before a Friday night deadline. In the 2020 leadership race, all four Conservative candidates recruited more than 269,000 people in total, which was a record for the party.

All this enthusiasm, but no election for 3 years. Go incognito.

Federal Conservatives could learn some lessons from how Doug Ford led the Progressive Conservatives to re-election in Ontario last week, but they may not be able to replicate his playbook, election analysts say.

“I think there are lessons, particularly in the [Greater Toronto Area] for the federal Conservatives to learn,” said Duane Bratt, a political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary.

“After all, Ford won a hell of a lot of seats in Toronto and in the GTA, something that the federal Conservatives haven’t been able to do in multiple election cycles.”

In a nutshell, support crap like CRT in classrooms and open borders and don’t forget to suck up to the public service unions. And never forget to ask the CBC for guidance. I believe the CPC is up to the task. 

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s campaign said Saturday it has sold upwards of 300,000 memberships in support of his bid for leadership of the federal Conservative party.

That number eclipses even the total number sold in the party’s last leadership race and appears to cement his status as the front-runner among the six people vying for the job.

The deadline for new members to take out a card so they can vote for the party’s new leader was Friday at midnight.

Conservative leadership contender Pierre Poilievre has tabled a bill in the House of Commons that, if passed, would prohibit the federal government from imposing vaccine mandates on federal workers and the travelling public.

Poilievre, who has been a vocal opponent of mandates since the convoy of protesters against vaccine mandates rolled into Ottawa earlier this year, said he’s tabling this legislation now “to give Canadians back control of their lives.”

It’s unlikely to pass so it’s really just red meat for potential supporters. Call me a cynic but I think a leadership campaign is in process.

Conservatives say they’re about to set another new membership record

Some Conservatives are predicting it will turn out to be the largest number of Canadians ever to join a political party at any one time in Canadian history.

Multiple Conservative Party of Canada sources say that, since the current contest to choose a new party leader began, more than 400,000 people have either joined the party, have renewed their memberships, or are existing members, giving them the right to vote in the leadership race.