LILLEY: Die Übergabe des Abgeordneten Michael Ma durch die Liberalen ist ein schwerer Schlag für Poilievre
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/liberals-flipping-michael-ma-blow-to-pierre-poilievre-conservatives
LILLEY: Die Übergabe des Abgeordneten Michael Ma durch die Liberalen ist ein schwerer Schlag für Poilievre
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/liberals-flipping-michael-ma-blow-to-pierre-poilievre-conservatives
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While it is a rehash of the news, theres a few tidbits in there that havent been reported on yet which are new (and its coming from a conservative site too).
Seems as even the more right leaning sites are starting to criticize Poilievre more and not giving him any more bail out for his caucus handlings.
>Poilievre clearly has a caucus management problem, and if he loses one more, it is highly doubtful that he will survive the leadership review in January.
>The deal to have Conservative MP Michael Ma cross the floor to become a Liberal MP was brokered by Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson.
>News of the move was kept to a tight inner circle up until the announcement was made — with Ma’s staff not even knowing.
>“We’re getting one more for sure, possibly two,” said one Liberal convinced the party will have a majority shortly.
>Partisans will attempt to put all of this on Carney: On corruption, on Chinese election interference, but part of it has to do with how Poilievre is managing his caucus.
>And even if the party base were to reward him with a ringing endorsement, Poilievre’s ability to accomplish anything in Parliament would be limited by a disinterested and disaffected caucus.
>These will be some of the most intense days of Poilievre’s political career as he tries to save his leadership and hold his party together.
This is grim reaper stuff. Though I just can’t help but wonder, given the cult of grievance Poillievre has cultivated amongst the base, will ousting him hurt the party more than help it?
Especially if another Reform Party protégé is selected in the leadership race, I feel like this just leads to the worst of both worlds:
Reform Conservatives angry that Poillevre was ousted by Progressive Conservative floor crossers and Progressive Conservatives angry that the Reform Conservatives have such a hold on the base that any other heir apparent will necessitate a Reform/ Western Conservative agenda and rhetorical style.
Conservatives are reckoning with the fact that belligerent politics don’t work as well in Canada. We’re culturally distinct and Americans in Canada will be the first to tell you that. Canada’s lower religiosity and a fragmented federation with a looser national identity make it much harder to tap into identify politics. How do you defend or threaten something (Canadian identity) that is so difficult to define? Conversely, it’s much easier for an American politician to argue that Christianity or American exceptionalism are under attack. Canadians want a pragmatist.
The Liberal partisan in me wants Poilievre to remain leader for the foreseeable future. But I can’t deny how satisfying it would be to see Poilievre get ousted from leadership. I wish that would mean he’d resign from politics but it won’t. He’ll pull a Sheer and stay in a safe riding forever because he’s incapable of doing anything else.