Conservative Party

Poilievre says no reflection on his leadership style following floor crossing and resignation

In his first media availability since two MPs announced they’re leaving his caucus, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he plans to continue leading the party as he has been.

When asked by a reporter to respond to comments by former Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont — who last Tuesday announced he was crossing the floor to the Liberals and later blamed Poilievre’s leadership style for his decision — Poilievre quoted previous remarks made by the defected MP in the House.

“First of all, I just quote Mr. d’Entremont,” Poilievre said, in response to the question about his leadership style, before reading d’Entremont’s previous criticisms of the Liberal government, including “out-of-control spending and massive deficits.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

Can the Conservative caucus please eat a Snickers bar?

Deep Fried Snickers Bar – Never had one myself.

Floor-crossing is just about the ultimate political betrayal, and the motivation of the political migrant is almost always self-serving. In the case of Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals last week, it is impossible to infer anything else.

Only about six months have elapsed since the last federal election, during and after which Mr. d’Entremont was happy to echo Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s “negativity,” which he now cites as the reason for his migration to the Liberal benches. He cannot reasonably claim that his constituents are better served by him now sitting with the governing party, because if they wanted to vote for that party, they would have back in April. Neither party has meaningfully changed its approach since spring (with the exception of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s more docile approach to U.S. President Donald Trump), and certainly not enough for Mr. d’Entremont to claim the ground has shifted so much as to justify his defection.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

What Happens to the Conservative Party Without Pierre Poilievre? Canadians Weigh In on Potential Leadership Alternatives

Leadership hypotheticals are always speculative, but they’re not pointless. Political leadership is about more than brand management or media presence, it’s the centre of the coalition, the public face of a movement, and often the determining factor in voting behaviour.

That’s why we conducted a survey of 2,922 Canadian adults between October 24 and 29, 2025, for the Toronto Star, exploring what might happen if Pierre Poilievre were no longer leading the federal Conservative Party. Would voters be more or less inclined to support the party? Are there other Conservative figures who might perform better in an election? And what does all this say about the shape and limits of the Conservative coalition today?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Poilievre is right about Trudeau – but the press won’t have it

For the past couple of weeks, since Pierre Poilievre appeared on YouTube’s Northern Perspective, members of the dominant media in Canada have sounded like scorched rats howling in protest about his unfair comments regarding former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The problem with their frustrations seems to be more about what he said than about the facts. Poilievre simply recited some basic knowledge that everyone is familiar with. His conclusions irritate members of the Laurentian media because they bear responsibility for helping the RCMP keep this matter underreported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party

Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns from Parliament after floor-crossing rumours

OTTAWA — Conservative Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux says he will resign his seat in the House of Commons after days of intense speculation that he would cross the floor to the governing Liberals, as the party tried to stamp out flames of what had been a chaotic week.

In a letter obtained by National Post, the Edmonton Riverbend MP said he informed Conservative Party Whip Chris Warkentin on Thursday of his intention to resign from Parliament at an unspecified date.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

If Poilievre goes down as party leader, it will be due to external pressure, not caucus dissent, say senior Conservatives

If Pierre Poilievre is ever forced out of his role as Conservative leader, it won’t be due to internal caucus dissent, but rather mounting criticism from outside the party, say senior Conservatives and caucus members. They add that if he intends to remain as leader, he will need to secure a strong vote of confidence from delegates at the upcoming January convention in Calgary.

“It’s not going to be the caucus that would bring him down,” said one senior Conservative in a not-for-attribution interview with The Hill Times. “[It will be because of] People who are not part of the caucus. The smart people know you should never have a knife in your hand [when you are in caucus].”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Poilievre says he’s confident he’ll survive January leadership review

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is “very” confident he will be the one to lead his party through the next election.

“I think both January and the next election will go in the right direction,” Poilievre said in an exclusive interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday morning.

In January, Poilievre will face a mandatory leadership review, where his caucus will determine whether or not he will stay on as leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Star expert explains why the Conservative party is too conservative

The dismantling of conservatism started with Harper, not Poilievre

In these pages and elsewhere, opinion writers have rightly criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for attacking the leadership of the RCMP for not arresting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

This is given as one example of how Poilievre’s overall approach to leading the party has been critiqued for straying from the conservative foundations established by John A. Macdonald and carried through John Diefenbaker and Brian Mulroney to Stephen Harper — an impressive and respected lineage that remained unbroken until the arrival of Poilievre.

This argument, however, misrepresents the history of the current Conservative Party of Canada (CPC)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, WTF?

WHISSELL: Pierre Poilievre Derangement Syndrome

Yes, Pierre Poilievre and anything he says are a threat to your livelihood.

Watching the Trump administration hunt down adversaries and undocumented migrants, Canada’s political class is utterly terrified. They worry the same thing could happen to them here, under a Conservative government.

They are particularly concerned about recent words from Pierre Poilievre, during an interview he gave on the Northern Perspective podcast.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

There is a constituency in the Conservative Party for Poilievre’s antics, which is really the problem

The SNC-Lavalin affair was the worst corruption scandal in federal politics since the sponsorship scandal – maybe since the Pacific Scandal. If it did not involve material gain for any of the participants, it certainly involved flagrant abuse of power, by officials from the prime minister on down.

The facts, for those needing a refresher: Justin Trudeau and senior officials in his government pressured then-attorney-general, Jody Wilson-Raybould – strenuously, repeatedly, and for many months – to interfere in a criminal prosecution on behalf of a Liberal-connected engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin (now called AtkinsRéalis), for explicitly partisan reasons. When she refused, she was fired. When at length she went public, they spent months more stonewalling, covering up, deflecting and smearing her reputation.

I wonder if Coyne has ever voted conservative? Seriously.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, WTF?

Conservative MPs line up to show support for Poilievre, after days of backlash over RCMP comments

OTTAWA — After days of backlash over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments on the RCMP, a string of his MPs lined up in support of the leader on Wednesday and pushed back against the controversy itself.

Usually quiet as they enter their weekly caucus meeting, a handful of Conservative MPs stopped to voice their support for Poilievre as well as the national force itself, whose leadership the Conservative leader called “despicable” in an interview aired last week, which he later clarified to say he was speaking about its past commissioner.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Some Conservative MPs doubt Poilievre’s leadership after podcast remarks about RCMP

After Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blasted RCMP leadership on a podcast, some party members are questioning whether they will continue supporting him.

Five Conservative caucus members who spoke to Radio-Canada said Poilievre has not changed his message enough since the last election campaign and is not projecting an image befitting a prime minister.

Radio-Canada is not naming the sources so they can speak freely about internal party matters.

Some unknown sources.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

John Ivison: Poilievre replays his old, conspiratorial hits as his leadership review nears

It’s not clear to me whether the mask slipped and Pierre Poilievre misspoke, or whether he genuinely believes there is a road to victory by parroting Donald Trump’s politics of grievance.

On the Northern Perspective podcast, the Conservative leader called the RCMP’s leadership “despicable” for what he called a cover-up of Liberal misadventures. “Many of the scandals of the Trudeau era should have involved jail time,” he said, specifically referring to the former prime minister’s vacation on the Aga Khan’s island in 2016 and the efforts to influence then attorney general Jody Wilson Raybould in the SNC Lavalin affair in 2018.

Everybody’s in on the act. Is it genuine opposition or just few cranks?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

DAVIES: What the media missed about our Pierre Poilievre interview

When a clip from our recent interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre went viral, the coverage said more about Canada’s media culture than about the exchange itself. It revealed how quickly political discussions can be stripped of context and turned into outrage fodder, a symptom of a news cycle that rewards speed over substance, and also focuses on polarizing content over nuanced dialogue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, RCMP, The Media Lies

Is Pierre Poilievre okay?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent behaviour doesn’t quite meet the threshold of an all-out spiral. He hasn’t shaved his head like Britney, or started running through the street naked like that guy who created the “Kony 2012” campaign.

But look: When you’re supposed to be the solemn voice for the Official Opposition and yet you’re posting on X about how the Nazis were socialists (but it’s right there in their name!), and trying to rewrite the history of the Freedom Convoy (he referred to the three-week occupation, which effectively shut down Ottawa’s downtown core in 2022, as a “peaceful” protest), and talking about how former prime minister Justin Trudeau should have been arrested for actions he took while in office, you start to look a little unhinged.

The anti-Poilievre faction in the CPC is pushing out the attack articles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Government Owned News Media, Conservative Party