According to a poll released two weeks ago by Abacus Data, Mark Carney and the Liberals hold a six-point lead over Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, 43 per cent to 37 per cent. Nothing startling there, most pollsters have the Liberals as much as 10 points ahead.
But just beneath the headline numbers, Abacus shows some intriguing facts about the Canadian electorate.
We’ll be a Chinese protectorate by then anyway.
Stung by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rethink on Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are now expressing doubts about Ottawa’s Alto high-speed rail scheme.
In a transportation megaproject tit-for-tat, 11 Tory MPPs have issued a statement critical of Carney’s proposed rail line connecting Toronto to Quebec City.
As first disclosed by the Star on Monday, the two major infrastructure plans are linked in an informal deal between the federal and provincial governments.
Premier Doug Ford told Prime Minister Mark Carney how “disappointed” he was that Ottawa is abandoning the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport expansion to allow commuter jets, the Star has learned.
Carney cancelled the island airport scheme before it could cause his Liberals any political turbulence, including potentially in the Aug. 31 Beaches—East York byelection that the prime minister called Sunday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a trio of byelections, including one in Ontario.
The byelections in the ridings of Beaches—East York, B.C’s North Vancouver—Capilano and Quebec’s Chicoutimi—Le Fjord will be held on Aug. 31, according to a news release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday morning.
2 safe seats and a possible flip.
Conservative MP Dean Allison called a news conference last week to give the media an update on his inquiry into the COVID-19 vaccine.
If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking: There’s an inquiry into the COVID-19 vaccine? Why?
Mr. Allison was accompanied by a couple of supporters: The husband-and-wife team of Shawn and Theresa Buckley, who run the Covid Testimony Association. Ms. Buckley stepped to the microphone to make clear what was at stake.
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal lead over the Conservatives has shrunk to six points, according to new polling.
In its weekly federal tracker poll, Liaison Strategies has the Mark Carney-led Liberals at 41% support among decided and leaning voters, with Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party of Canada in second at 35%.
Eventually the majority of Elbownians will realize that Carney is a gaslighting fraud like Trudeau.
Conservatives who think leader Pierre Poilievre needs to step down are doing their party no favours. There is also little agreement about why he needs to go, at least when you factor in the differing opinions from online activists and MPs speaking anonymously to Ottawa reporters over the past year.
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.
To be a successful leader in politics, you need a few things: a vision for the country, a plan to realize it and an ability to articulate why you are the right person to lead the journey.
British prime minister Keir Starmer possesses none of these things. That’s why he’s been forced to resign his post. It’s expected he’ll be replaced by soon-to-be-former mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, who possesses only one of them.
I think the greater risk is to Carney.
He will implode as the public becomes aware of his grifting ways, ugly personality and economy wrecking schemes.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s had it with months dedicated to various causes, arguing there are too many and that it’s becoming difficult to keep track of them.
Speaking at a press conference on June 19, the opposition leader said, “I think there are so many months now that are dedicated to so many causes it’s kind of getting hard to keep track of which month is for what cause or for what group.”
