Pierre Poilievre Conservative leadership

This time in Calgary. Tuesday night. Another rally, another crowd, a HUGE crowd in this city, the place packed, traffic backed up trying to make it in to hear ...

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Pierre Poilievre is raising concerns over potential “fraud” in the Conservative leadership race, demanding the ban of pre-paid credit cards to purchase ...

If the party’s payment processer cannot accommodate those demands, the Poilievre campaign recommended finding a new one. Pre-paid credit cards have been a perennial issue in Conservative leadership races. The party later struck 1,351 names from its membership roll after an internal investigation. But the Poilievre campaign wrote Tuesday that the memo suggested “no proactive steps” will be taken by the party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) to prevent the use of pre-paid credit cards to purchase memberships. “Absent an acceptable response by the close of business on April 14, 2022, our campaign will take appropriate steps to require the party comply with the Membership By-Law,” the letter read. “Our campaign will continue to abide by all rules set out by the Conservative Party and Elections Canada. And we will win.”

Pierre Poilievre brought his Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign to his hometown on Tuesday night.

Scott Aitchison and former mayor of Brampton, Ont., Patrick Brown are also running. The crowd was all-in from the moment Poilievre stepped onto the stage surrounded on four sides by rows of chairs. For Pequin, there is only one choice for the next party leader. I love how he’s honest, he has integrity and those things are important to me.” He also said he would end wasteful spending and defund the CBC. O’Toole was seen by many within the party to have moved the needle too far to the left.

As the Conservative Party of Canada searches for its next leader, Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre appears poised to take on the role and challenge Prime ...

6 hr ago 6 hr ago Car-surfing is when one person rides on top of a fast-moving car. 6 hr ago 6 hr ago 6 hr ago 6 hr ago 6 hr ago One expert in B.C. says this comes amid a transition away from public health orders to individual responsibility. 6 hr ago 6 hr ago “Poilievre is young, he's dynamic and charismatic.

In the last two Conservative leadership races, the supposed front-runners stumbled before reaching the finish line. This time, however, the front-runner is ...

"Mr. Poilievre, who is by the way a legislator ... supported a blockade that had very direct consequences on the Canadian economy and which was illegal. Keller rejects the suggestion that Poilievre is divisive. Instead, he's been taking the fight to Poilievre through the media. I think what we need right now is somebody who can heal the nation," said Fast. I'm seeing a lot of similarities with Pierre's campaign," said Keller, a vice president at StrategyCorp and ex-chief of staff to John Baird, a former Harper cabinet minister and an adviser on Poilievre's campaign. To take control of your life: https://t.co/d9I1ky9w2t pic.twitter.com/Rb2WL1VYiN— @PierrePoilievre It also had a field of more than a dozen candidates, which divided the attention and resources of party activists. Poilievre also has the advantage in caucus endorsements. Lewis has tweeted photos of herself addressing sizeable crowds while touring the Prairie provinces. Detractors worry he'll deepen divisions within the party and the country. Poilievre has tweeted photos of rallies in British Columbia and Ontario attended by hundreds of people. This time, however, the front-runner is only showing signs of gaining ground.

Politics Insider for April 12: Setting the stage for a CPC leaders debate; Charest goes on the attack; and a disaster for the PQ.

The results of that probe, which is expected to detail the scope and depth of the program in the U.S., are due any day now. Absent from the budget was mention of a timeline for a campaign promise to transfer mental health money to provinces and territories, CTV reports. A big problem for Charest is the rise of Éric Duhaime, leader of the new provincial Conservative party, whose supporters are likelier to support Poilievre than Charest. Human-rights groups filed a complaint Sunday with the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate allegations that some products sold by 14 Canadian companies are made with forced labour in China, the Globe reports. The by-election was being seen by many as a gauge on the health of the PQ, who ran former NDP MP Pierre Nantel. Almost all the Canadian companies listed in the complaint are subsidiaries of U.S. or other international firms. … Well, I’m sorry, if you want to be a leader of a party, if you want to sit in the House of Commons and make laws, you have to obey them,” he said. The Star has an interesting story about the $5-million Vancouver house he used to make his point. It disqualifies you, as far as I’m concerned, as being someone who thinks, or aspires to be, a leader of a party.” Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Mr. Charest’s stronger words coincide with clear signs of momentum in the Poilievre campaign, which is frequently attracting large crowds at stops throughout the country. Charest attacks: Speaking of the CPC race, on Sunday, Jean Charest let loose at frontrunner Pierre Poilievre, the Globe reports.

Meanwhile, candidate Patrick Brown targeted Poilievre – and the Prime Minister – in a statement on the issue.

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By then the confused Conservative member will be convinced Charest is a Justin Trudeau clone and Poilievre is Maxime Bernier's twin. It sets up the spectacle of ...

10 hr ago 1 hr ago On CTV News Channel's Power Play, key Poilievre adviser Jenni Byrne and co-chair of Charest leadership campaign Tasha Kheiriddin get into a heated exchange over their respective candidates' positions. 10 hr ago 1 hr ago 10 hr ago 1 hr ago With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. 10 hr ago Trudeau announced Tuesday morning that the confidence-and-supply agreement has been brokered, and is effective immediately. That doesn’t bode well for Charest, who needs a significant Quebec surge to carry him into the leadership. And even when the discussion gets overheated, there’s rarely lingering acrimony after the show goes to commercial.