1 day Ago By Ari Yanover
OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre says he disagrees with calls from some supporters for him to change his election strategy amid a Liberal surge in the polls, arguing that he should not stop talking about the “lost Liberal decade.” Monday morning, he poopooed any suggestion that he should pivot his campaign messaging towards a more forceful response to U.S.
President Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada, despite some voices suggesting he is missing the “ballot question.” The Conservative leader said he would not stop criticizing the government for the “lost Liberal decade” and for failing to address crime, rising housing costs, the fentanyl crisis and affordability issues. “Some people have said that .
.. we should just ignore all of those things.
I disagree. My purpose in politics is to restore Canada’s promise so that anyone from anywhere can achieve anything,” Poilievre told reporters during a campaign stop in Saint John, N.B.
“The threats, the unjustified threats by President Trump, further strengthen the argument in favour of the ‘Canada First’ agenda that I’ve been fighting for my whole life,” he added. The Conservative campaign has been dogged for days by public and private calls from conservative operatives and strategists to pivot their campaign messaging to focus more on combatting economic threats from U.S.
President Donald Trump. Since Friday, multiple media reports have detailed quiet campaign infighting, and some surprisingly harsh comments out loud by a conservative strategist arguing Poilievre needs to refocus his message or risk leading the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive loss to the Liberals. Ontario Progressive Conservative top strategist Kory Teneycke, who recently helped lead the party to a record third consecutive majority win, said last week U.
S. tariffs have to become Poilievre’s ballot box issue. “These are tsunami waves that are crashing down trees and buildings and everything in their path right now,” he said of the tariffs during an event hosted by the Empire Club last week .
“You’ve got to get on the f—ing ballot question or you are going to lose.” He also said Poilievre looks and sounds too much like Trump in the eyes of voters, namely with his “Canada First” slogan..
