Conservative Party

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre plans to force the federal government to stop using overly complex bureaucratic wording by passing a law that will require the use of “plain language” if he is elected prime minister.

The Conservative leadership candidate is making this promise — his last policy announcement of the campaign — mere days before he might be confirmed leader of the Conservative party.

An advocacy group started by centrist Conservatives to provide more of a voice to the political middle has dropped the party’s name to expand its base.

The “Centre Ice Conservatives” have become the “Centre Ice Canadians.” What does that say about the state of the federal party and the role of moderate Tories within it?

Moderate as in never was a conservative.

OTTAWA – There are just two weeks left until the Conservative Party of Canada announces its new leader on Sept. 10.

While nearly half of the ballots have already been cast, the five candidates — Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Roman Baber, Scott Aitchison, and Leslyn Lewis — are busy rallying support in a final get-out-the-vote push.

I don’t understand how the author of this article could write that Charest along with Poilievre are the “front-runners”. Unless they know the books are cooked Charest is not even close.

OTTAWA — “Our next prime minister.”

“I’ll vote for you bro!!!”

“This guy is Canada’s future.”

Those are the kinds of comments NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh used to get on his TikTok videos. Users of the app — a youth favourite — would reply to the leader’s viral clips, begging him to unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and change the way politics is done in Canada. Orange heart emojis would sometimes follow.

But those comments aren’t from Singh’s profile. They’re scattered beneath presumed Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre’s TikTok videos. And now, the heart emojis are blue.

This turns into a “But Jagmeet is the superior candidate for da Yutes” spiel.

There’s a popular narrative that Canada’s chattering classes enjoy spouting to anyone within earshot. If Pierre Poilievre becomes the next Conservative leader instead of Jean Charest, they say, he’ll create a massive split in Canada’s conservative movement and guarantee a fourth consecutive election victory for Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Young people want freedom from the woke control freaks in government, media and academia,” Pierre Poilievre said recently on Twitter. “That is why they are supporting my campaign to put them back in charge of their lives.”

Mr. Poilievre’s campaign for the federal Conservative leadership has been successful, and he’s now in a strong position to win the September vote. But to what extent are the many people buying into his freedom pitch aware of his track record on that very subject?

That’s two anti-Poilievre pieces today.

OTTAWA — Celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary is making a last-minute pitch to Conservative party members to vote for Jean Charest.

The reality television star’s nod comes as the race enters its final weeks and all five campaigns are trying to motivate supporters to cast a ballot.

O’Leary briefly entered the party’s 2017 leadership race, but dropped out after determining he’d never win over the province of Quebec and in turn couldn’t defeat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Good Lord but this is desperate.

“… Some in the media claim Mr. Poilievre flirts with right-wing extremists because he is one himself, a Canadian Donald Trump. Nonsense. Unlike the former U.S. president, Mr. Poilievre supports high levels of immigration and steers clear of social-conservative issues. He focuses almost exclusively on economic insecurity. His closest political counterpart is Ontario Premier Doug Ford.”

Gee, I remember reading that on some blog when he first started running for the leadership. PP will win, do not expect a savior.

Of the many remarkable characteristics of Stephen Harper — aside from his overwhelmingly genial disposition — none is stronger than his deliberative character.

He thinks, thinks well and deeply, before he acts. So then, of this we may all be certain, that his choice to endorse Pierre Poilievre was not the whim of a fleeting mood, but a judgement long-considered and firmly articulated. The endorsement came as a surprise as Mr. Harper has mostly abided by the tradition that ex-prime ministers remove themselves from the affairs of their successors.

I hope he lives up to the Pierre Poilievre he’s projecting. Recall how quickly the past two leaders showed their true colours after winning the leadership.

Liberals could weaponize Conservative infighting to weaken Poilievre, Preston Manning warns

In imagined speech, Conservative elder statesman says Trudeau can use Conservatives’ own words as ammunition

An elder statesman of Canada’s conservative movement is offering a vivid warning about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals might attack Pierre Poilievre if he wins the Conservative leadership.

In an email sent to Conservative leadership campaigns and senior Conservatives earlier this month, former Reform Party leader Preston Manning engages in a thought experiment envisioning the sort of speech Trudeau could deliver in the House of Commons to welcome Poilievre — widely expected to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in September.

With all due respect does anyone seriously consider Preston a “conservative?”

Frankly this article sounds more anti-Poilievre than pro-conservative.

I hope Justin’s handlers have sent Presto an appropriate “Thank You” gift.

No matter I will vote the full Trotskyist slate next election anyway.

Pierre Poilievre brought his federal Conservative leadership campaign to Dartmouth to criticize the Liberal government’s carbon tax plan, defend free speech and deride Canada’s prime minister.

Hundreds of supporters gave the Ottawa-area MP a standing ovation as he entered a crowded hotel conference room Saturday and warmly received his broadsides against the Liberal government’s policies.

OTTAWA — Although three weeks remain in the Conservative party’s leadership race, the talk in political circles has already shifted to what’s next.

Pierre Poilievre’s victory is being treated as a foregone conclusion by his rivals and allies alike. He has upwards of $5 million in the bank, more than 300,000 party members signed up behind his cause, and the crowds turning up at get-out-the-vote events are assuaging earlier fears that all of the new members he’s recruited wouldn’t turn out to vote.

I think it’s almost 48 hours since the last Poilievre hit piece, if so that would be a new record.

CHAREST: Open letter to my fellow members of the Conservative Party of Canada

” … I’ve spoken to thousands of members and party activists and it’s clear to me there are policy areas where conservatives should be champions: national unity and addressing western alienation, health-care reform, religious freedom and reproductive choice, families, law and order, defence, security and economic growth and independence.

Most of the voting public believes there are much bigger issues than “freedom” at stake in this country.”

That’s his pitch, here’s the translation:

I’ve spoken to a couple of pals and it’s clear you people need to be reminded: Quebec Rules OK? Western Canada? If you mean Thunder Bay I’ve heard of it. We will continue to provide an ever declining standard of health care and denounce those who refuse to call it the best in the world. We will make Canada a secular 24/7 abortion abattoir run by sacred transvestites and ensure that our security services continue to target the scourge of white supremacism that threatens to interfere with corporate Canada’s wishes for unfettered mass immigration and continued economic relations with the very worst humanity has to offer.

Freedom is just another word for shut up and take it because it’s never going to get better for you.