Speaking at a Brampton home on Friday, Poilievre announced the “Stand on Guard” principle, a plan to amend Section 34 of the Criminal Code.
The change would presume that force used against an unlawful intruder who poses a threat to safety is reasonable, removing what Conservatives call the current “legal limbo” faced by Canadians who act in self-defence.
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Expect the Conservatives to come out swinging on immigration like never before when the House of Commons reconvenes next month.
Donald Trump gave the Liberals a lifeline to eke out another term in government in the spring, but the Liberals’ failure to get immigration under control is negatively impacting Canadians across the country.
Finally re-elected, the Tory leader should prioritize holding the underperforming Liberal government to account over pandering to his base.
He’s back.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is done serving his time in the sin bin and is once again a Member of Parliament, albeit this time in Battle River-Crowfoot instead of Carleton. Upon first glance, not much appears to have changed.
Always punchy, Poilievre has resumed his aggressive tone on social media, chucking up a series of posts attacking Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government on issues like crime, firearms, foreign investment, Chinese ferry contracts, food prices, and a B.C. nurse who was fined an outrageous $93,000 by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives over her views on gender, with the last issue also earning some retweets of comments made by his caucus colleagues.
One thing is for sure: with Pierre Poilievre officially back in the political ring, things in Ottawa aren’t likely to be boring.
But which Poilievre will we see?
On the one hand, it’s possible that, after experiencing his first electoral defeat in April following seven consecutive victories, we might see a more introspective politician and man — one who doesn’t take anything, and least of all voters from across the spectrum, for granted.
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In the notes for his unfinished final novel, The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously and portentously wrote “there are no second acts in American lives.”
Nowhere is this less true than in politics, American or otherwise.
Indeed, when I met Donald Trump in 1997, he was a has-been who patiently waited alone in the bowels of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to be interviewed by a city reporter for a fluffy human-interest story.
With their leader back in Parliament, the Conservatives are better positioned to challenge the governing Liberals, drawing on Pierre Poilievre’s parliamentary experience and increased media attention, although the Liberals’ post-election honeymoon still presents the Tories with added challenges.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal government have enjoyed a high level of support post-election as trade tensions with the United States continue.
Despite naysayers and a longest ballot committee, Pierre Poilievre handily won his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot Monday, which means he will be returning to Parliament in September.
Up until this point, Prime Minister Mark Carney has had it easy.
Canada’s Pierre Poilievre is back after an election loss for the ages.
The Conservative Party leader won a by-election on Monday in Battle River-Crowfoot, a Tory electoral district in Alberta that he’s never lived in. He can finally return to Parliament after the embarrassment of losing his own seat of Carleton in Ottawa during the federal election in April, which saw the Conservatives blow a more than 20-point lead to a Liberal Party led by former central banker Mark Carney.
There’s an episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns, billionaire nuclear-power-plant owner and villain of Springfield, decides to run for governor against the incumbent, Mary Bailey. During a war-room meeting, Mr. Burns’s campaign manager lays out their challenge: “While Gov. Bailey is beloved by all, 98 per cent of the voters rate you as despicable or worse. That’s why we’ve assembled the finest campaign team money can buy.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will have to hold the government accountable while showing he can appeal to a wider set of Canadian voters, as he gets ready to head back to the House of Commons following his resounding byelection win, experts say.
After losing his seat in the Ottawa-area riding he’d held for two decades to a political rookie in April’s general election, Poilievre won a Monday byelection in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot with 80 per cent of the vote.
Now, when the House returns on Sept. 15, Poilievre will face off against new Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney for the first time in question period.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre easily won Monday’s Battle River-Crowfoot byelection with 80.4 per cent of the vote. If anyone actually expected a different outcome in this extremely safe Alberta riding, they were fooling themselves.
While his victory wasn’t surprising, the fact that he was in this potentially precarious position to begin with certainly was.
Pierre Poilievre won the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in rural Alberta Monday evening.
But to call it a “victory” is to suggest there was anything competitive or surprising about it.
The outcome was never in doubt, not in a riding where Conservative candidates routinely win more than 80 per cent of the vote — and where Damien Kurek, the incumbent who stepped down to open up the byelection for Poilievre, won with 83 per cent in last April’s federal election.
The Canadian Press is projecting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has won the byelection in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot.
Poilievre was leading by about 5,500 votes with almost 20 per cent of polls reporting just over an hour after voting closed.
OTTAWA — Four months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was vying to become prime minister of Canada. He now faces a different challenge: winning over voters in the rural heartland of Alberta.
After losing his seat in an upset, Poilievre parachuted into one of Canada’s safest conservative districts — despite not living there — to win back a seat in the House of Commons.
