“Canadian Politics” – Page 12

Conservatives, Poilievre seek to carry convention momentum back into Parliament

OTTAWA – Political analysts say the federal Conservatives and leader Pierre Poilievre have momentum coming off a unifying convention in Calgary but the party still has a hill to climb in Parliament to one-up Prime Minster Mark Carney and the Liberals.

The Conservatives wrapped up their three-day national convention on Saturday touting party unity. Poilievre easily passed his mandatory leadership review with 87.4 per cent support from delegates.

Pollster Nik Nanos said Poilievre’s result was “quite striking.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2026February 2, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

GUNTER: Poilievre hugely popular among Conservatives while trailing Carney, Grits in polls

Pierre Poilievre sailed through his leadership review Friday evening winning an 87.4 per cent endorsement from delegates to the Conservative Party of Canada convention in Calgary.

But that was hardly a surprise, nor was it the most significant number of the Conservative leader’s week.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2026February 1, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

With Poilievre’s leadership review behind them, Conservatives say it’s time to prepare for the next election

OTTAWA — As Pierre Poilievre departed his party’s convention armed with the backing of delegates to lead the federal Conservatives into the next election, senior party figures say getting ready for that contest will be the next challenge.

Poilievre secured 87.4 per cent of support from the more than 2,500 delegates who descended on Calgary for the party’s three-day convention, with his leadership review on Friday night as the main focus of the gathering.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2026January 31, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wins 87.4% in leadership review

CALGARY— Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre secured his party’s endorsement Friday, receiving a resounding 87.4 per cent support from delegates in a referendum on his continued leadership.

The commanding result came as more than 2,500 delegates descended on Calgary for the party’s three-day convention, with the vote on Poilievre’s leadership serving as the main event.

The disappointment among the MSM must be profound. Their wish dream failed to come true.

And … he gave a good speech last night coming across as far more human than the perpetually brittle Carney.

Poilievre tells party delegates to have hope in speech that confronts Alberta, Quebec separatism

CALGARY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged party delegates to have hope in a speech delivered before they voted on his leadership Friday, which also sought to confront rising separatism in Alberta and Quebec by blaming it on the Liberals.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2026January 31, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

MACLEOD: Hypocrisy of Canadian sovereignty — why Alberta gets called traitors for what Quebec does freely

Welcome to January 2026, where the Canadian national pastime has shifted from hockey to the casual branding of fellow citizens as traitors. As federal leaders clutch their pearls in Ottawa this week, BC Premier David Eby has helpfully updated our national dictionary: apparently, when Albertans have a coffee with US State Department officials to discuss their economic future, it isn’t “diplomacy” — it’s a high crime against the Crown.

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2026January 30, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", "Western Alienation Separation", Canada, Quebec

Half of Canadians say it would be unethical for Carney to get majority with floor crossers: poll

OTTAWA — Half of Canadians believe it would be unethical for Mark Carney’s Liberal government to achieve a majority by attracting opposition MP floor crossers, according to a new poll.

And, two months after two Conservative MPs crossed the floor to the governing Liberals, new data from a Postmedia-Leger poll suggest that voters’ feelings about party defectors are a political Rorschach test.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pierre Poilievre is believed to have most Conservatives’ support. Holding his party together could be another matter

OTTAWA — You don’t need to look much further than Pierre Poilievre’s social media to see the sort of dilemma the Conservative leader is facing.

Earlier this month, he praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his extraordinary capture of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. Two weeks later, he condemned the same president’s threats to acquire sovereign Greenland and backed Canada’s obligations as a member of the NATO alliance.

It’s not that it’s out of bounds for a political leader to see value in one move and denounce another. It’s that each response rankled different factions within the Conservative tent.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2026January 25, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

Carney and Poilievre find themselves on two very different hot seats as Parliament gears up to return

OTTAWA — Canada’s two main political party leaders won’t boast about the connection, but they have at least one important thing in common these days: As a new session of Parliament opens Monday, they’re both sitting on hot seats.

Facing upcoming periods that may well determine their political fates, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both approaching hurdles they need to get over in the coming weeks and months to ensure their grips on power.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2026January 23, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

‘We’re in real trouble’: Carney faces historic crisis amid trade war, U.S. annexation threat, and two potential separatist referendums, say politicos

With the ongoing trade war with the United States, frequent annexation rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, and the potential for two separatist referendums at home, Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing some of the most serious challenges confronted by any prime minister. Still, his performance is receiving mixed reviews from some political players who say Carney’s handling of the situation is a “technocratic” one, driven by officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council Office, when he should be opening up to the country.

“We’re facing a truly existential crisis,” said John English, a historian, author, and former Liberal MP in an interview with The Hill Times. “We have to recognize that we’re in real trouble.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2026January 19, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Doug Ford calls on Carney to ‘step up’ to help Ontario’s auto sector after Chinese EV deal

As Prime Minister Mark Carney moves to allay concerns about lifting tariffs on Chinese EVs, Premier Doug Ford says Ottawa needs to “step up” to protect Ontario’s auto industry.

Speaking to Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference delegates at the Sheraton Centre on Monday, Ford reiterated his alarm at Carney’s new agreement with China.

by Blazingcatfur•January 19, 2026January 19, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Many Canadians support an early federal election if it leads to political stability, poll suggests

OTTAWA—Another federal election so soon?

Most Canadians are not opposed to the idea, new research shows, but only if an early election was triggered to secure the stability and functioning of the country’s Parliament.

Despite a snap election less than a year ago that led Mark Carney’s Liberals to a minority victory, new polling from Abacus Data shows that 41 per cent of Canadians would support a general contest being called early if doing so would result in “a majority government that could provide more political stability in Canada.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2026January 17, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

Doug Speaks!

NEW: Premier Doug Ford says PM Carney didn’t inform the Ontario government about the EV tariff reversal before striking the deal with China.

Ford says this is going to be a “big problem.”#onpoli pic.twitter.com/8B6hF1bifp

— Colin D'Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) January 16, 2026

Ontario premier slams Canada’s ‘lopsided’ new EV deal with China

Ontario Premier Doug Ford isn’t mincing words about Canada’s new electric vehicle deal with China, saying Friday that Chinese manufacturers are gaining a foothold in the country’s auto market at the expense of workers in this country.

“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” Ford said in a statement issued shortly after news of the deal broke.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2026January 16, 2026•0•"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Doug Ford blasts Mark Carney’s EV deal with China

Premier Doug Ford is panning Prime Minister Mark Carney’s slashing of Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.

“Make no mistake: China now has a foothold in the Canadian market and will use it to their full advantage at the expense of Canadian workers,” Ford warned Friday after Carney reached a deal with Beijing in exchange for China cutting retaliatory levies on Canadian canola and seafood.

The loss of Canada’s automotive industry is inevitable assuming Trump holds true to course and reshores manufacturing.

And EV’s are not the future but that won’t stop Carney and his plans to turn bad policy into profit for the China class.

This may be a tacit admission by Ford that the Great EV Gamble came up snake eyes.

“To fix this mess, Prime Minister Carney and the federal government need to urgently step up and support Ontario’s auto sector,” he added.

“That means making the sector more competitive by ending the electric vehicle mandate, harmonizing regulations with key trading partners and scrapping federal fees that do nothing but add thousands to the cost of making vehicles and chase away investments,” stressed Ford”

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2026January 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ontarians toasting Doug Ford’s Crown Royal ban, poll suggests

Ontarians support Premier Doug Ford’s removal of Crown Royal whisky from LCBO shelves to protest the company’s closure of its bottling plant here, a new Abacus Data poll suggests.

Ford has vowed to stop selling the popular Manitoba-made rye at Ontario liquor stores after U.K.-based Diageo shutters its Amherstburg factory near Windsor next month, which will cost about 200 jobs.

“Crown Royal should have thought twice before closing their plant here,” the premier told reporters at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, expressing concerns Diageo is moving jobs stateside.

It’s distilled in Manitoba.

by Blazingcatfur•January 15, 2026January 14, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics"

Doug Ford says he’s ‘100% dead against’ lifting Canadian tariffs on Chinese EVs

As Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to China for talks aimed at boosting trade, Premier Doug Ford is imploring him to keep Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

The Star reported Monday that Carney’s officials are in “active discussions” with Beijing about lowering or dropping the 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs that Canada imposed in 2024.

That’s because the prime minister — who has brought Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe with him on the trade mission — hopes that, in exchange, China will remove its punitive counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2026January 13, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government