There’s an episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns, billionaire nuclear-power-plant owner and villain of Springfield, decides to run for governor against the incumbent, Mary Bailey. During a war-room meeting, Mr. Burns’s campaign manager lays out their challenge: “While Gov. Bailey is beloved by all, 98 per cent of the voters rate you as despicable or worse. That’s why we’ve assembled the finest campaign team money can buy.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will have to hold the government accountable while showing he can appeal to a wider set of Canadian voters, as he gets ready to head back to the House of Commons following his resounding byelection win, experts say.
After losing his seat in the Ottawa-area riding he’d held for two decades to a political rookie in April’s general election, Poilievre won a Monday byelection in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot with 80 per cent of the vote.
Now, when the House returns on Sept. 15, Poilievre will face off against new Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney for the first time in question period.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre easily won Monday’s Battle River-Crowfoot byelection with 80.4 per cent of the vote. If anyone actually expected a different outcome in this extremely safe Alberta riding, they were fooling themselves.
While his victory wasn’t surprising, the fact that he was in this potentially precarious position to begin with certainly was.
Pierre Poilievre won the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in rural Alberta Monday evening.
But to call it a “victory” is to suggest there was anything competitive or surprising about it.
The outcome was never in doubt, not in a riding where Conservative candidates routinely win more than 80 per cent of the vote — and where Damien Kurek, the incumbent who stepped down to open up the byelection for Poilievre, won with 83 per cent in last April’s federal election.
The Canadian Press is projecting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has won the byelection in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot.
Poilievre was leading by about 5,500 votes with almost 20 per cent of polls reporting just over an hour after voting closed.
OTTAWA — Four months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was vying to become prime minister of Canada. He now faces a different challenge: winning over voters in the rural heartland of Alberta.
After losing his seat in an upset, Poilievre parachuted into one of Canada’s safest conservative districts — despite not living there — to win back a seat in the House of Commons.
Canada’s federal conservative leader will have a second chance of winning a seat in parliament when residents of a rural Alberta district cast their ballots in a closely watched byelection on Monday.
Pierre Poilievre’s bid to take the safe seat of Battle River-Crowfoot comes four months after the Conservatives’ defeat in April’s federal election, in which the party leader lost the riding he had held for more than 20 years.
It was an unexpected blow for the 45-year-old career politician who, before the election was upended by Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada, had been widely expected to become the country’s next prime minister.
Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is among the dozens of MPs who own rental property even as he blasts the unfairness of Canada’s housing market for young Canadians, Global News has learned.
Poilievre, the perceived frontrunner in the party’s leadership race, has made housing unaffordability a central part of his campaign so far, and has frequently criticized what he calls the “gatekeepers” keeping homes out of reach for home-buying hopefuls.
Two condos owned by Poilievre and his wife? That’s nothing compared to others.
No idea why Poilievre was singled out for headline treatment unless God forbid our media are nothing more than paid propagandists for the LPC!
OTTAWA—The safest assumption in Canadian politics right now is that Pierre Poilievre is going to win Monday’s federal byelection in Battle River—Crowfoot.
In interviews this week with Conservative insiders, in most every pundit’s analysis, and in the strategizing of politicos of all stripes, it’s taken as a given: the Tory leader will be back in the House of Commons for the fall sitting of Parliament. After all, since he lost in April’s general election the riding he represented on Ottawa’s suburban-rural fringe for 20 years, Poilievre is now running in a sprawling Alberta constituency that polling expert Éric Grenier has deemed “one of the safest Conservative seats in all of Canada.” His short-lived parliamentary exile is almost certainly coming to an end.
Prime Minister Poilievre?
Next week, the good people of Battle River-Crowfoot will elect a new member of Parliament and the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) can get back to worrying about the future.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is launching a national campaign to stop what he calls Prime Minister Mark Carney’s law to end gas and diesel powered cars in Canada, warning it will drive up costs and end rural life.
Speaking at a Prairie farm today, Poilievre said Conservatives will table motions in Parliament, stage events at dealerships, pressure Liberal MPs in their ridings, and circulate petitions.
Harvey Nahirniak walks toward his paddock of cattle, his tall rubber boots caked with rich, black soil.
Cows, dusted with mud, huff in the afternoon heat. His beloved workhorses stand in the sun like statues while the farm’s fat, white guardian dog, Marvin, pants in the shade.
Nahirniak’s expertise lies in crops and cattle. His family has farmed the same stretch of land in the sleepy hamlet of Round Hill, Alta., for generations.
The CBC wants you to believe Poilievre is in trouble.
OTTAWA — Three months after the federal election, Pierre Poilievre’s top advisor Jenni Byrne has broken her silence over the party’s failed bid to form government.
Byrne, a top Conservative operative and Poilievre ally, has been praised for her role in the party leader’s meteoric rise in the polls during the Justin Trudeau era but also criticized for her role in the last federal election that saw the Liberals elected once again.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is once again calling for Ottawa to overturn its electric vehicle (EV) mandate, echoing a letter five automobile CEOs sent to the prime minister in May that was recently released.
“Automakers have warned Mr. Carney of the job losses and rising costs from his ban on gas-powered vehicles. We must allow people the freedom to choose,” the Tory leader said on Aug. 7.
