Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre overwhelmingly won his leadership review in January with 87.4 per cent support of the vote. He will be the party leader for the foreseeable future and into the next federal election.
While most Conservatives are hopeful that Poilievre will become prime minister, there are contenders waiting in the wings if he’s unsuccessful. Ontario Premier Doug Ford may be one of them.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is distancing himself from comments made by one his MPs who told a right-wing U.S. news outlet that some in Canada were engaging in a “hissy fit” of anti-Americanism, which was counterproductive in trying to deal with the U.S.
Poilievre appeared before reporters on Tuesday and was asked whether he agreed with the assessment provided by Ontario MP Jamil Jivani to Breitbart News, following a visit to the White House where he met with senior administration members, including a brief conversation with U.S President Donald Trump.
Silence is a decision.
And this is, effectively, where Pierre Poilievre now finds himself on the issue of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Among some Conservative party faithful, there has been a quiet hope, wishful thinking actually, that this issue would cease to be the dominant one. That crime and affordability would re-emerge as ballot-box drivers. That the Trump circus would recede to the periphery.
The main criticism of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s convention speech on Friday was that in 40 minutes or so, he didn’t mention the words “Donald Trump” — or how he would respond to the president’s intimidation.
On the contrary, though, I thought what he was saying was pretty clear: That he intends to follow in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s footsteps to the point where their positions are indistinguishable.
The Conservatives have likely concluded that the public see Carney as best equipped to handle the president, and their optimal strategy is to inoculate themselves, in the hope that by the time of the next election, Trump is like the measles, unpleasant but transitory.
At the Conservative Party of Canada’s national convention in Calgary, the proposal to remove the ban on conversion therapy was defeated despite receiving a narrow majority of popular support from delegates. The proposal failed because it did not meet the party’s “double majority” requirement for constitutional and policy changes. Delegates were 52% in favour of opposing the ban. They also debated hot button issues such as DEI, abortion, and immigration. With polarization at an all time high, the issue risks crashing out with alienated grassroots, and not enough competency to discern the subject from atrocious woke policies.
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Former Conservative campaign manager Jenni Byrne says her party’s messaging on the relationship between Canada and the United States is evolving, and should continue evolving as the situation shifts.
Byrne, who is a looming figure in Conservative politics, says linking the trade war with the U.S. to the party’s central affordability message is key to gaining political ground.
“I think you absolutely can do both.… I think it’s staying on top of things, being adaptable and seeing how that is actually going to affect Canadians’ day-to-day life,” Byrne said in an exclusive interview with CBC News.
I’m sure that advice will be well received but to be fair no one anticipated Trump’s election intervention on the LPC’s side.
CALGARY — After a campaign-style speech, heavily borrowed from the Conservatives’ best hits of the 2025 election, Pierre Poilievre secured the leadership of his party with a resounding 87.4 per cent of the delegate vote.
Now, the party must wrestle with the question of what comes next.
Does his solid victory — more than he received in 2022 when he became leader (70.7 per cent) and more than former leader Stephen Harper received in 2005 during his leadership review (84 per cent) — mean Poilievre has no changes to make before the next election? Or does it give him the leash to adjust his offering?
The blitz of “Poilievre’s leadership in jeopardy” articles having failed sees the MSM return to the usual fear mongering nonsense of “CRIME! GUNS! IMMIGRANTS! ETC!”.
It’s like the MSM has a hidden agenda or something.
Party adopting a ‘stand your ground’-style policy, demands crackdown on criminal immigrants
Delegates at the Conservative Party’s national convention in Calgary voted overwhelmingly Saturday to enact a “stand your ground”-style law to allow someone to protect themselves with lethal force against an intruder in their home.
This was one of dozens of policies debated and adopted by delegates at this biannual gathering, many of which focused on crime, immigration and social policy.
After handing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a strong endorsement, party members renewed their policy playbook ahead of the next possible federal election.
“Demands crackdown on criminal migrants” as if that were a bad thing.
Canada’s main opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, a populist inspired by President Trump, was retained as head of the Conservative Party on Friday, despite having led it to defeat last year in an election it had once been expected to win overwhelmingly.
In a speech before the vote at a party convention in Calgary, Alberta, Mr. Poilievre repeated many of the themes from his 2025 campaign, which ended in a loss to the Liberals, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party, in April. Eighty-seven percent of the more than 2,500 Conservatives at the convention voted to keep Mr. Poilievre as their leader, according to results released early Saturday.
The NYTimes is fishwrap.
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.
Another counting of noses.
A fresh off the press Postmedia/Leger poll.
For what it’s worth, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals have a nine-point lead over Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives.
The Conservatives are up two points from the last nosecount but the Carney Liberals are up four points.
Pierre Poilievre is about to ask for something no Conservative leader has been granted by the party for more than 20 years: a second chance.
On Friday night, thousands of party members will vote on whether he should stay on as leader after losing the April election.
The party’s constitution mandates a leadership review when it fails to win a federal vote. Mr. Poilievre is expected to win far more than the simple majority of votes that the constitution also requires for him to remain.
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre faces a crucial test of his leadership this week, but what lies ahead is a bigger challenge: convincing Canadians that he is the best person to guide the country through its uncertain future.
Party delegates will vote on whether Poilievre should remain leader on Friday at the Conservative convention in Calgary. It is part of an automatic review that is triggered after an election loss – in this case, Poilievre’s defeat last April.
Poilievre appears to have wide support heading into the convention, party members have told the BBC, and is expected to win handily.
As the Conservatives prepare for their annual convention in Calgary this weekend, hostile voices are trying to undermine them. They are being told to be less hard-edged, to reject populism, to be respectable “team players.”
Yet rejecting populism would be a disaster, one that would destroy all the rebuilding accomplished by the party since 2022. Roughly four in 10 Canadians back the party, and the base itself is strongly supportive of leader Pierre Poilievre.
