Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will try to rally his MPs after a summer of conservative movement infighting and polling that shows his party continuing to trail the federal Liberals by double-digits.
Poilievre and the Conservative caucus are gathering in Penticton, B.C., for a strategy session ahead of the House of Commons’ return next week.
The Conservative leader enters the fall sitting with his party trailing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals. Polling aggregator 338 Canada has the Liberals with 46 per cent popular support, with the Conservatives at 33 per cent.
Poilievre has also faced continued questions about his leadership from within the Conservative family, after publicly taking what was seen as a shot at Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager, Kory Teneycke.
While congratulating former MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay on winning the leadership of the B.C. Conservatives, Poilievre declared it a victory over “liberal lobbyists” from Eastern Canada, a comment widely interpreted as directed at Teneycke, who worked on a rival campaign.
Findlay went on to lose several MLAs, who left the party publicly due to her leadership. Teneycke also publicly shot back at the Conservative leader, suggesting Poilievre was not long for the job. Several prominent Conservative voices spent the summer publicly opining on the future of the party.
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Despite the internal turmoil, Poilievre’s comments Tuesday ahead of the retreat sounded like they could’ve come from one of his 2025 election campaign speeches.
“The promise of Canada – that if you work hard, you get a great life, a home you can own, food you can afford, a safe street to live on – that promise is broken after 11 years of Liberal government,” Poilievre said.
“Our mission as Conservatives is to fight for you and to fight for Canada, to save you money. That is our single biggest immediate priority.”
Poilievre took a dig at Carney, accusing the prime minister of participating in “summits and signing ceremonies” – a reference to the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto this week, where the government is trying to lure $1 trillion in foreign investment to the country – rather than delivering results for Canadian voters.
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The Conservative leader also questioned Carney’s push for stronger partnership with the European Union – suggesting that the Liberals could force Canadians to pay taxes to the EU or adopt the bloc’s immigration policies, neither of which has been suggested by the government.
“We want Canada to have free trade with Europe, cooperation with Europe, but we never surrender our independence and sovereignty over our laws, our tax money, and our immigration policies,” Poilievre said.
Polling released by Abacus Data Monday suggested that 80 per cent of Canadians support deepening cooperation with European nations on foreign policy, defence and economic priorities – including a strong majority of Poilievre’s own supporters.
“Ninety-two per cent of Liberal voters support deeper cooperation with the EU. So do 92 per cent of NDP voters and 86 per cent of Bloc voters,” Abacus CEO David Colletto wrote of the findings.
“Among Conservative voters, support is lower but still reaches 69 per cent.”
The House of Commons is set to return on Sept. 21.
Pp is a useless sackoturd
CBC with the attack pieces again today.
provalPending approval then deleted. What an embarrassment of an establishment. CBC if you are going to continue to attack Pierre at least open up the comments. You can delete this comment as well. No one shall attack the ruling parties bought and paid for media.
Pending approval Nice hit pieces on Pierre today CBC. What are you afraid of?
Pending approvalCBC if you are going to continue to attack Pierre at least open up the comments. You can delete this comment as well. No one shall attack the ruling parties bought and paid for media
But there is another – Ben Mulroney !
Too bad this whole Carney thing happened we could have a conservative super majority by now, smooth relations with the US and prosperity!
But no we’re in the doldrums instead.
@ Annoying PP
Thank you for your service!
Thank you for answering my question!
I for one agree that funding for Veterans should never be clawed back or lowered. If anything is should be increased by a lot more and we as a country have failed the veterans and that goes for all federal parties. Remember that the Prime Minister scolded a Veteran in Edmonton that they were asking for to much and still Canadians supported Prime Minister Trudeau a Liberal!
I definitely would support more funding for all Veterans.
I am also not waiting for my country to serve me. I only ask that the governments that we have actually work at lowering the costs of living for all Canadians and that includes the Veterans.
Again thank you for your service and as I said all governments should provide more funding and supports to our VETERANS FIRST!
Poilievre will have trouble rallying anything worth mentioning…
@D Channon, As a Veteran, let me tell you about how the Conservative party clawed back and cut money that Veterans had been promised, it was a very dark time in the Veteran community, never had any government in Canada betrayed their Veterans the way the Conservative party had.
So to answer your question, in the last 12 years the Liberal government has brought all that funding back and more to help the Veteran community, which in turn helps with the cost of living.
Are do people who serve their country don’t count, only people like you who are waiting to be served by their country instead.
I just thought you should know.
He has been turned into this MAGA persona by the media and social media which is wrong and to many people are being influenced by social media especially. He was also doomed as the Alberta premier turned the Conservatives into MAGA north due to allowing the separatist rhetoric run wild and did nothing to stop it and even support it.
If he wants to be a leader he should and needs to resign instead of trying to hang on as he is done and the media will keep that rhetoric going due to there support of the left Liberals.
People need to wake up that the president is not our problem as he is running his country as he wants.
Our problems were created long before he became president and it is failure after failure of our Canadian government that has put us in the situation we have now. Liberals and conservatives have each failed Canadians. They have allowed our cost of living to get out of control, did not build to use our resources in our own country and still sit on their hands waiting for a miracle it seems.
In the present all we hear is speeches and travel to other countries with no deals and MOU’s that mean nothing. The country is divided like never before and will not get better till we demand better from all levels of politicians.
Again I have asked this question and have not got one answer back.
What is one positive thing that the Liberals have done for Canadians in the past 12 years to power the cost of living in Canada?
Pierre Poutine has to find a real job soon. Mmmm , good qualifications for a shoe store. We see he a great ..boot licker.
Unless Poilievre changes his tone and stops imitating Trump, he’ll have abysmal polling. And if the culture war Trumpian Poilievre conservatives stopped focusing on who goes to the bathroom and what people wear, they might gain in the polls a smidgen.
pp not MAGA enough, need someone like TRUMP, smart and gets stuff done!
PP, always divisive and no solutions, just talking points. He’s still stuck in 2025 and this is why he’d make a terrible PM. He’s too MAGA and lacks a clear platform. Carney and co have a clear plan on how to move Canada forward. Will it be perfect? No. Will it cause some hardships in the short-term? Possibly. But it’s a long-term plan with immensely positive prospects for making Canada stronger and more independent of the US.
He has about as much of a chance as MAGA Karen-Lynne Findlay… So basically zero chance
Not even humpty dumpty can put them back together again!
..don’t see a way out for the Cons. Canada clearly said in the last election we don’t want anything to do with the maga and religious zealots that either run or heavily influence the party. PP will at very least have to keep dog whistling to these folks and lose red tories and independents in the process…if PP goes could be an ugly power struggle played out that will likely fragment the party…stay tuned.
Goodbye Polly!! Goodbye Findlay!!
It’s all over but the crying. The conservatives have no more tricks…no more smoke and mirrors. See you in the next 100yrs ! ( maybe more?!)
get rid of these traitor clowns
Poilievre spends most of his time pushing his Trumpian style. He just talks about relentless grievances, Canada is broken mantra, and focuses on culture wars. The country needs a real opposition leader who supports Canada in the trade war against the US and drops the angry Trump politics.
PP is low-energy, low-emotion speech delivery robot. I want someone like Trump in Canada, hugging the Canadian flag and verbally demolishing the Libs, speaking what he thinks and telling it like it is. This guy only gained support because during Covid Convoy in Ottawa he supported the truckers indirectly with his comments. He is not a winner, he is a coaster…. he has decent ideas and stuff, but Politics are not the same as they were 20 years ago.
He should ride his horse in to parliament on day 1 dressed as Lethbridge Liberace from the stampede. Bahahaha Bahahaha.
What a fool, the only bigger fool is anyone who can’t see through this failed politicians antics.
He is on his way out just like the Conservative party.
“Beautiful women are waiting to say hello—join us today! 💋” ………………………..> h1.nu/1DVDs
If Pierre was so bad then why were the first three policy announcements from Carney taken directly grom the PCs?
Once a pm says Canada had ‘no choice’ but to walk away from U.S. trade talks but pp wants details of the offer that our fine PM walked away from? Looks like pp needs his glasses back.
We need to keep pp around for easy laughs.
Not long for the job indeed. Bye Felicia.
Aks the cracks
Hey cmd, you wanna come with me?
As a Liberal supporter I want Polly to stay. It will only strengthen the Liberal Party’s chances at another term. But as a Canadian who is tired of listening to him and watching him chew apples I can’t wait for him to leave public life. Back to that private sector that conservatives keep telling us is where success is really measured. Go find that private sector job Polly.
@Olivia – Paper boy Pete has already fully secured one of the largest Public Service Pension payouts in history. But he has to wait 8 more years before he can begin drawing it.
Petey needs to find a new paper route now to subsidize his ~$120+k/year pension payout.
@Olivia. Lol. Imagine how low IQ you have to be to still bootlick Khalistani Jagmeet
And this guy was blaming Jagmeet Singh for hanging in for a pension?
Go away pp.
He’s great. Leave him alone, he’ll do fine.
Both Findlay & Polly need to step down & find a labor job digging holes!
And here we are stuck with media that only polls NDP/Liberal ridings.
Big difference between having deeper ties with EU than actually joining. 80% agree to better trade, cooperation, NOT joining as a member…..love how that gets slipped in…
As much as I liked PP in the beginning, I think, for the party, and let’s face it our country, Cons NEED to change up just to get these Liberals out….
He needs to step down