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“We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms, which are our proud heritage … We cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.”

These are not the words of some left-wing activist. They were spoken by Progressive Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker. Long before Pierre Trudeau enshrined our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Diefenbaker was Canada’s champion of equality, passing the federal Bill of Rights in 1960.

The Star continues its 5th Columnist Pseudo-Conservative Jihad.

As the federal government prepares its long-anticipated budget in November, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would like to see “billions of dollars” in cuts.

“There needs to be billions of dollars of reductions in the federal bureaucracy,” Poilievre said in an interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday.

Poilievre also said the federal government “should cut the budget for consultants by at least $12 billion.”

Poilievre can’t win on this issue.

We’ve already seen Carney backtrack on his earlier promise to make serious cuts.

Face it unionized government bureaucracy at all levels is an important vote bloc. Another of Canada’s 3rd Rails.

The problem for Canadians is the MSM has in large part become part of the Federal Bureaucracy thanks to government press subsidies.

Consequently the issue of civil service reductions will always be portrayed as wrongheaded, a danger to Canadians and its proponents heartless. 

Pierre Poilievre is about to return to the national stage, with his election loss bestowing upon him a new depth of understanding of his ultimate role as prime minister of Canada. Often, it is through loss and setbacks that we learn our greatest lessons.

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Soon, Canadians will reflect on the period in Canada between former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s prorogation of Parliament in January 2025, to the end of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s summer vacation this Sept. 15 — far from the reality of an in-session Parliament — as a sort of Canadian political furlough.

Finally re-elected, the Tory leader should prioritize holding the underperforming Liberal government to account over pandering to his base.

He’s back.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is done serving his time in the sin bin and is once again a Member of Parliament, albeit this time in Battle River-Crowfoot instead of Carleton. Upon first glance, not much appears to have changed.

Always punchy, Poilievre has resumed his aggressive tone on social media, chucking up a series of posts attacking Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government on issues like crime, firearms, foreign investment, Chinese ferry contracts, food prices, and a B.C. nurse who was fined an outrageous $93,000 by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives over her views on gender, with the last issue also earning some retweets of comments made by his caucus colleagues.

One thing is for sure: with Pierre Poilievre officially back in the political ring, things in Ottawa aren’t likely to be boring.

But which Poilievre will we see?

On the one hand, it’s possible that, after experiencing his first electoral defeat in April following seven consecutive victories, we might see a more introspective politician and man — one who doesn’t take anything, and least of all voters from across the spectrum, for granted.

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In the notes for his unfinished final novel, The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously and portentously wrote “there are no second acts in American lives.”

Nowhere is this less true than in politics, American or otherwise.

Indeed, when I met Donald Trump in 1997, he was a has-been who patiently waited alone in the bowels of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to be interviewed by a city reporter for a fluffy human-interest story.

With their leader back in Parliament, the Conservatives are better positioned to challenge the governing Liberals, drawing on Pierre Poilievre’s parliamentary experience and increased media attention, although the Liberals’ post-election honeymoon still presents the Tories with added challenges.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government have enjoyed a high level of support post-election as trade tensions with the United States continue.

Despite naysayers and a longest ballot committee, Pierre Poilievre handily won his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot Monday, which means he will be returning to Parliament in September.

Up until this point, Prime Minister Mark Carney has had it easy.

Canada’s Pierre Poilievre is back after an election loss for the ages.

The Conservative Party leader won a by-election on Monday in Battle River-Crowfoot, a Tory electoral district in Alberta that he’s never lived in. He can finally return to Parliament after the embarrassment of losing his own seat of Carleton in Ottawa during the federal election in April, which saw the Conservatives blow a more than 20-point lead to a Liberal Party led by former central banker Mark Carney.