OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would complete environmental assessments of major infrastructure projects within one year and push through approval of 10 pending major resource projects.
If the Conservatives are elected on April 28, Poilievre said Monday that the days of innumerable environmental reviews by multiple governments and endless waiting for large infrastructure projects to be approved would be over.
It was the end of a long day, but Pierre Poilievre had more energy in the evening than in the morning.
“Wow, what a wonderful crowd,” the Conservative Leader said in Oshawa, Ont., as he quickly stepped onto a two-foot-high platform in an airplane hangar and went into his slogans.
“Who’s ready to axe some taxes?” he said at the Thursday rally. “Who’s ready to put Canada first for a change?”
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are ahead of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives by a cumulative average of 5 to 6 points. Contrary to popular (Liberal) belief, this doesn’t mean the federal election is over. There’s plenty of political runway left, and more than enough time for Poilievre to make up ground.
How can this be done? Some Conservative strategists and thinkers have called for significant policy shifts and massive transformations. I believe the answer can still be found on the path well travelled by Poilievre.
Abacus Data Poll: Liberals and Conservatives remain deadlocked at 39% each.
Cards on the table, I’m skeptical of the current state of the polling in this election. My sense is that Mark Carney and the Liberals’ numbers are, at least in part, a byproduct of sympathetic pollsters over-sampling their key demographics, and those being trumpeted to high heaven by the publicly-funded media. That, coupled with voters’ justifiable annoyance at Donald Trump’s “51st State” cracks and tariff threats, has contributed to an illusion of enthusiasm, a sense that they are running away with this thing.
That said, one polling data point has struck me as being both real and important. A recent Abacus Data poll showed that, when you cut out all the distractions, Canadians’ biggest concern remains our inflated cost of living. And that is an issue which clearly favors Poilievre and the Conservatives.
Pierre Poilievre took flak this week for speaking out about couples who want to have children but who are running out of time. His critics are dead wrong.
Economic challenges and government policies are making it harder than in the past for couples who want children to have them. Political leaders should be trying to overcome those challenges, rather than waving them away or fussing over the words we use to talk about them. Canada’s fertility crisis should also not exclusively be a concern of the Right. It should be mainstream.
While antisemitism has always been present in Canada, this is the first Canadian election in decades where it has been normalized.
Riot police being called to Montreal’s McGill University after pro-Hamas demonstrators vandalized the university’s McConnell Engineering Building, targeted the dean’s office and blocked students from attending classes last week surprises no one any more.
Long-simmering tensions within the Conservative movement are bursting out into the federal election, experts say — undercutting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s efforts to present himself as a unifier who can take on U.S. President Donald Trump.
Those tensions materialized again after ex-Reform Party leader Preston Manning and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, both Western-populist-styled Conservatives, made a series of controversial statements that raised the ire of former Stephen Harper cabinet ministers James Moore and Jason Kenney.
Liberals have 11-point lead over Conservatives; Carney opens up 22-point advantage over Poilievre as preferred PM
The federal Liberals now have an 11-point advantage over the Conservatives on Day 14 of the federal election campaign, while Mark Carney has opened up a 22-point lead over Pierre Poilievre when it comes to Canadians’ preferences for prime minister.
Worth the read – from Nick Kouvalis
3 weeks ago, I wrote the post below and I wanted to update it with my thoughts today:
Thank God, Pierre/CPC has recalibrated re: Trump/ Tariffs and that Garbage. **I already see improvement in the numbers in Ontario**. ✅
Again, I will reiterate that Trudeau is gone and… https://t.co/0SVi98VxQK
— realNickKouvalis (@NickKouvalis) April 5, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the United States is no longer a reliable partner and has vowed that, if his party were to form the next government, he would revoke defence and market access agreements with Washington if it violated a renegotiated trade deal with Canada.
He also pledged during a campaign stop in Kingston that he would eliminate the 5-per-cent federal goods and services tax on purchases of new, Canadian-made automobiles and light trucks, for a $2,500 savings on vehicles that cost $50,000.
Canadian Liberals performed a traditional dance of outrage on X this week, reminiscent of Twitter circa 2015. There was even a hashtag — #WomenAgainstPoilievre — despite the fact X owner Elon Musk told users hashtags had become irrelevant in December.
What was the apparent offence that caused legions of Liberals and social media commentators to post things like, “This is unbelievable in this day and age,” “Gilead Pierre wants to regulate ovaries” and “Imagine being a Woman and voting for this garbage. Ew!”
KINGSTON, Ont. — Pierre Poilievre said Thursday he disagrees with calls from former Reform Party leader Preston Manning that a vote for Liberal Leader Mark Carney amounts to a “vote for Western secession.”
Manning, whom Poilievre, the federal Conservative leader, has known since his teenage years in Calgary when he become involved with the erstwhile Reform Party, penned an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail, arguing Carney poses a threat to national unity, particularly in Western Canada, which has long been aggrieved with the policies of the Liberal government around natural resources.
A deeply flawed argument has slipped into the national election conversation.
It goes like this: there isn’t much policy difference between front-runners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, so it really comes down to who can best handle Donald Trump.
True, handling the U.S. president is job one and polls show Carney more trusted on this file. But the first part of the argument — that the two men have similar policies — is fundamentally wrong and dangerously misleading.
It’s true what they say about progressives every accusation is a confession.
It’s always OK when they do it.
I cannot recall the last time I watched CBC television ‘programming.’ Use the news site but that’s it.
As Conservatives face pressure to pivot their campaign strategy in the face of a polling deficit against the Liberals, one of the party’s long-serving MPs says she’s fully behind leader Pierre Poilievre’s plan.
Four-term Calgary-area MP Michelle Rempel Garner told National Post in an interview Saturday that she is confident Poilievre’s deliberate approach of incrementally rolling out detailed policies is the path to victory on for the April 28 vote.
As the 2025 federal election campaign begins its second week, U.S. President Donald Trump and another round of tariffs expected on April 2 could again sidetrack most of Canada’s political discourse.
But making almost as much noise thus far have been the growing grumbles out of Conservative circles about Leader Pierre Poilievre’s messaging and polls that now have him trailing the Liberals and Leader Mark Carney.
As we come to the end of the first week of this high‐stakes, highly consequential Canadian general election campaign, many Conservative supporters—and a fair number of commentators—have been urging Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party to dramatically pivot.
Their argument is straightforward: with Donald Trump ramping up threats against Canada, it seems logical for the Conservatives to seize the moment, confront Trump head‐on, and persuade anxious voters that they are best positioned to stand up for Canada. Yet when you examine the data closely, it becomes clear that such a pivot is likely not the smart strategic choice. Campaigns, especially in their early stages, are about establishing a path to victory, and in this case, shifting the focus to Trump could, in fact, undermine the Conservatives’ remaining paths to victory.
