Pierre Poilievre Conservative leadership

The MP has ridden lucky breaks and a well-oiled campaign to front-runner status in the Conservative leadership race. But he'd be wise to learn a lesson from ...

In fact, he won with a battle plan that looked very much like the one Erin O’Toole ran on federally in 2021: a centrist platform with a direct appeal to the blue-collar voter. Of the five, only Mr. Moe and Mr. Ford remain viable entities; the others were forced out or will soon leave office. Doug Ford took his Progressive Conservative Party on a decidedly different direction: straight up the middle. But if he really wanted to make Canada the freest country on Earth, he’d be vowing to end Quebec’s discriminatory Bill 21, which takes aim at the rights of people like teacher Fatemeh Anvari, who was removed from her classroom last December for refusing to take off her hijab. Say what you will about Mr. Poilievre’s policies – many of which range from disturbing to all-out bonkers – his campaign is a well-oiled machine. Perhaps the most interesting thing left to watch will be how Mr. Poilievre behaves from now until the party membership votes on Sept. 10. After all, we’re talking about a career politician who qualified for a gold-plated government pension at the age of 32. This idea of someone taking over in Ottawa and bringing the elites to their knees has obvious appeal. When he boasts about putting forward a private member’s bill that would “scrap all vaccine mandates and ban any and all future vaccine mandates,” they applaud even louder. His oft-stated intention to make Canada the freest country on Earth certainly had an appealing ring to the mostly white protesters who participated in the self-described “freedom convoy” earlier this year, to whom he pandered shamelessly. With Mr. Poilievre’s eye-popping number out there, it would surely be too embarrassing for the others to make their totals public. For all intents and purposes, then, this race is over.

Flamborough-Glanbrook MP Dan Muys and Dufferin-Caledon MP Kyle Seeback now say Pierre Poilievre is the candidate who can pull the party together.

“Let’s unify behind Pierre Poilievre.” But the race could get uglier before that happens, now that the deadline to sell memberships has passed and candidates look to shake their opponents’ support before the vote in September. Two Ontario members of Parliament switched allegiances in the Conservative leadership race Tuesday as growing divisions prompted them to throw their support from Patrick Brown to Pierre Poilievre in the name of party unity.

Two Ontario members of Parliament switched allegiances in the Conservative leadership race Tuesday as growing divisions prompted them to throw their support ...

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Dufferin—Caledon MP Kyle Seeback and Flamborough—Glanbrook MP Dan Muys – two of the four MPs who initially endorsed Brown's campaign, announced Tuesday they are ...

There had also been allegations of rigged nominations, voter fraud and ballot stuffing under his leadership. Days after launching his campaign, Brown attacked Poilievre for his support of 2015 Conservative Party promises to restrict the Niqab and establish a hotline for Canadians to report barbaric cultural practices. In a statement to True North, Seeback, who was serving as Brown’s caucus chair, said that “the divisive nature of this campaign is not good for conservatives and it’s time for conservatives to unite.”

In today's letters to the editor: Pierre Poilievre; the Ontario election; Canadian gun control; rising interest rates; protecting Juno Beach; the Queen's ...

The Queen made a brief appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on Thursday and later on Sunday, forgoing most of the events in between. It felt like a loose collection of stand-ins uneasy about representing someone they could never hope to measure up to. Letters to the Editor should be exclusive to The Globe and Mail. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. Perhaps the Bank of Canada needs to upgrade its 1970s economic model. Officials euphemistically explained that she was experiencing “some discomfort,” but in unvarnished terms that would mean she was in pain. Perhaps I made it up myself. The current regulatory system is designed specifically to screen for indicators and behaviour patterns that would suggest violence of any kind. But something just seemed off with a hint of incoherence. This new legislation, besides punishing gun owners who have complied with every legal requirement, will likely ensure that there is no Linda Thom in the future. In elections where the governing party is defeated, participation rises. If homegrown inflation was the primary concern, one could easily understand the strategy. But trends over the past half-century reveal other patterns in voter behaviour.

Conservative leadership candidates say they've sold memberships to hundreds of thousands of Canadians ahead of the Sept. 10 vote.

But the contest has been bitter at times, with some candidates warning publicly that the party faithful are being divided. Former Conservative strategist Tim Powers said there's "always gamesmanship" among campaigns when it comes to numbers. Scott Aitchison declined to talk about his team's membership sales Monday as he was heading into the House of Commons. Leslyn Lewis and Roman Baber's teams have not issued public statements.