Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sustained surge in the polls is coming predominantly from former Conservatives, according to new figures published by the Angus Reid Institute.
According to a new poll published on Thursday, 13 per cent of respondents who voted Conservative in 2025 would now vote for a Carney-led Liberal party if given the chance
Last week, the federal government announced that it’s extending the gas tax holiday into 2027, which is yet another policy that Prime Minister Mark Carney has borrowed from the Conservative handbook. And it isn’t an isolated case, given that Carney zeroed the consumer carbon tax, cancelled the electric vehicle mandate and is working to expand oil and gas capacity.
The Conservative Party’s big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months.
It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within the coalition cultivated by leader Pierre Poilievre.
Fred DeLorey, the chair of NorthStar Public Affairs and a former top party adviser, said it feels like everyone’s trying to “define what is a Conservative.”
I don’t think Poilievre is the real problem so much as the anointed conservative establishment.
I can’t support a party that fails me on critical issues like Remigration.
Canada needs an AfD and parliament has to be swept clean.
Alberta’s political Achilles heel federally is its electoral predictability. While provincially the state of affairs has been volatile, shifting from Progressive Conservatives to NDP to UCP in the span of a decade, the province has always given a strong majority of its seats to the conservative party of the day federally.
This tendency has led federal parties to take Alberta for granted. The Liberals don’t pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of gaining seats there is slim. Conservative parties don’t pay much attention to Alberta because the likelihood of losing seats there is slim.
As most Canadians are aware, Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” the latest in his meme obsessed attempts to wage psychological war on Canadians. The move elicited a range of reactions across Canada, from defiance to bewilderment to laughter at the move.
There’s been a few folks attempting to silence conservative dissent behind a mask of patriotism.
Some like Kenney played a huge role in our current demise.
I get the feeling this is a sign of a pampered class reluctantly realizing that a passing of the torch is occurring whether they like it or not.
Populism scares them as it threatens their cozy sinecures.
The mushy conservatism of the Uniparty is not what we need.
Americans have been trying their hand at Canadian political punditry as relations between our two countries continue to spiral downward, showing frankly no real insights.
But one politician-turned-pundit, U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, may have been on to something when he recently called Pierre Poilievre a “non-entity.”
In remarks made available to Canadian Press last month, Vance referred to the Conservative leader as “this guy Pierre Poilievre or something,” and told the fundraiser audience that he was a non-entity when it came to trade negotiations.
The Liberals, of course, won all three federal byelections on Monday.
Two of these were unremarkable. Vancouver’s North Vancouver-Capilano and Toronto’s Beaches-East York were considered safe Liberal seats. The Liberals won the Vancouver riding by 26 percentage points in the 2025 general election and the Toronto riding by 44 points.
The result? A lot of “Conservative Party” establishment types who haven’t accomplished anything since mid Harper are bitching and complaining about populists and Alt-right MAGA types ruining their afternoon naps.
Goodbye Uniparty.
Pierre Poilievre desperately needs some sort of victory, and the recent round of Canadian by-elections didn’t garner him one. Nobody really expected the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) to make gains in the races, but they could have hoped to remain competitive in the one seat they had held in Quebec. Alas, not only did they lose the seat, but they were trounced. The CPC candidate in Chicoutimi — Le Fjord finished a distant third with under 13% of the vote.
In the other two by-elections, the CPC fared no better.
CBC is offering live coverage.
A test of Carney popularity or voter TDS?
Coletto back on Power & Politics tonight. Same file, now applied to tonight’s ballots
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While Mark Carney’s governing Liberal Party maintains a slim majority on Parliament Hill, voters in three ridings across Canada — including Toronto — will make their voices heard at the ballot box in Monday’s byelections.
Back in July, during a K-Days pancake breakfast, a far-left protester screamed at Premier Danielle Smith, “You’re a f****** fascist!” and “f*** your fascist pancakes!”
Who even knew there was such a thing as “fascist pancakes?”
As Canada waits to see whether Prime Minister Mark Carney can strike a trade deal with Donald Trump — or whether the U.S. president will slap 50 per cent tariffs on $20 billion worth of our goods Wednesday — another deadline is looming: When will the Conservative party figure out a path back to power?
Because right now, it is going nowhere.
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on his MPs to continue to “fight for the jobs of Canadians” as some are privately expressing concerns over his polling numbers, the current electoral prospects of the party and their own seats.
“My job is to continue to fight for the common people, fight for affordability, and to fight for safe streets for our country, and that’s what I will continue to do,” Poilievre said when speaking to reporters in Vancouver on Sunday as he called for the federal government to extend the pause on the federal gas tax until Canada Day 2027.
In February, as a former director in Stephen Harper’s PMO, I was invited to Ottawa for the unveiling of his official portrait. It was a lovely and fitting occasion. As is customary, the current prime minister, Mark Carney, was also in attendance and gave gracious remarks.
Watching the two men share a stage, I was struck by how similar their brands are. When I attend focus groups, the words people use to describe Carney are strong, smart, dependable, safe, and economically credible.
Those are the same words people used to describe Stephen Harper 15 years ago. Many will even tell you, unprompted, that Carney is governing the country like a conservative.
Another “Get Poilievre” hit piece.
CALGARY — Conservative MPs are questioning Pierre Poilievre’s ability to continue leading the party as well as his ability to beat Prime Minister Mark Carney in an election, CTV News has revealed.
The article contains information from interviews with current Tory MPs who were interviewed by CTV under the promise that their identity wouldn’t be revealed.
