“Canadian Politics”

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre’s latest dispute with a prominent B.C. Tory is renewing scrutiny of the Conservative leader’s approach to managing his party, with some insiders questioning whether he is more focused on settling scores than striving to form government.

Poilievre became the focus of a public clash on Thursday with former B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Elliott, who narrowly lost a provincial contest this past spring to former federal Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay.

This rash of Poilievre must go hit pieces seems more a collaboration between Carney’s media and the Uniparty than a populist ground swell.

Poilievre isn’t perfect, but he does piss off the media and I think the message that Canada is nearing irreversible decline will work once that last elbow is a bloody stump.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia’s southwest coast will reduce Canada’s reliance on sales to the United States and boost the country’s capacity for exports to Asia.

But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has warned that rejecting a pipeline route to B.C.‘s northwest coast will “simply lead tankers to take the oil south down to the California west coast.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing Conservative MP Richard Martel to the Senate because Martel has held a Quebec seat (Chicoutimi-Le Fjord) that was Liberal until Martel won it in a byelection in 2018. Carney wants it back for his party.

I’m starting to believe that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the subject of an elaborate, prolonged hazing ritual. The frat house in this scenario might have better decorum and nicer furniture than those found on college campuses, but the initiation process is the same: subject the pledge to a succession of humiliating rituals to see if and how long he can endure. For Mr. Poilievre, the cascade of indignities has been going on for more than a year.

I want Pierre Poilievre to be Canada’s next prime minister, but I’m beginning to question whether he wants the job.

Poilievre continues to go out of his way to alienate different factions of the conservative movement and pick unnecessary fights with people who should be his allies.

Stay the course, eventually it will dawn on the Elbow people that they re-elected Trudeau’s inept crew under his adviser Carney’s banner.

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who grew up in Calgary, is spending the weekend in the city to take in the Stampede.

He also spoke to supporters at Heritage Park Saturday night, where he addressed the Oct. 19 referendum and Alberta separatism.

“We will fight for Canada,” Poilievre said. “Including in the upcoming referendum to win back Albertans…through hope, not by wagging our fingers or lecturing them, nor by threatening. We want to be respectful to people in both sides of this debate.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadian flags should not be removed and replaced with other flags, after he was asked about a school’s decision to fly a Pride flag in place of the national flag during the month of June.

“When I’m prime minister, we will fly the Canadian flag everywhere and always. We should never take down the Canadian flag for any reason. We have to be united now more than ever,” Poilievre told reporters in Vancouver on June 19.

OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s lead over the Conservatives has dipped to single digits, a new opinion poll has found, but the second-place Tories may be getting a boost from a surprising source – the New Democrats.

The poll from Liaison Strategies found that the Liberals remain at the top of the heap in federal politics with the support of 41 per cent of Canadians who identify themselves as “decided and leaning voters,” with the Conservatives at 32 per cent.

Elbow people should not be allowed to vote.

Departing Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith is getting a send-off from federal politics as his future remains unclear following a recent loss in the provincial party’s Scarborough Southwest nomination race.

Supporters are hosting a party to celebrate his 11 years of service in the House of Commons — including a brief stint as housing minister — at an East York beer hall June 25.

OTTAWA — Marilyn Gladu was planning to leave politics when she says a conversation with Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon changed her mind.

Gladu had a few offers lined up as she contemplated exiting her role as a Conservative MP, one she had held since 2015, and was pondering a return to engineering, a field she had spent years working in before entering politics.

OTTAWA — If Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ultimately finds himself in the job of prime minister he will have completed an extraordinary journey since winning his party’s leadership in 2022: from scrappy upstart, to massive frontrunner, to election loser, to finally, comeback kid.

It’s not a unique journey, but it’s fraught with difficulty and has produced more losers than winners in politics.

OTTAWA — Aside from being a member of Parliament, Jamil Jivani has no official roles in Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party.

Elected to the House of Commons in a 2024 byelection, he possesses less political experience than most of his caucus colleagues.

Yet no one in his party has had more success in pushing themselves to the forefront of a series of defining debates than the Bowmanville—Oshawa North MP.

Not the hit job you’d expect from the Star.

Canadians are split on what they think should happen when a member of Parliament decides to change political parties, a new poll suggests.

The survey of just over 1,000 people was conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail shortly after the Liberals secured a majority government in April, following three by-elections and five MPs crossing the floor since November.