„Was ist los?“: Kanadier fragen sich, warum Konservative Abgeordnete verlieren, sagt Nanos über Carneys wachsende Popularität
„Was ist los?“: Kanadier fragen sich, warum Konservative Abgeordnete verlieren, sagt Nanos über Carneys wachsende Popularität
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I maintain that the CPC just completely conflated contempt for the Trudeau LPC with approval of whatever weirdness they were doing. As soon as the LPC brand seemed to change and the CPC’s causticness didn’t ease up, they really didn’t have much to offer.
Yeah, it’s hard to say. It wasn’t hard to predict that this would end in disaster. Trump is already flying the mission accomplished banner, and, as air strikes typically do, rather than bringing about positive regime change they’ve managed to install a more unpredictable and more radical element with a personal vendetta. It was definitely a gaffe for Carney to be as diplomatically tepid about it as he was.
But at the same time, Poilievre is seen as a Canadian Trump. When Trump flubs it like this, it exposes that brand of reactionary conservatism as irresponsible. I could see Iran coming out a wash, between them, although it could have been an easy victory for Carney if he’d been a little more cynical about it from the beginning.
Not many Canadians are wondering. Polviere and the Conservatives have too much in common with the current American regime. As our disgust of the US regime grows our suspicion of conservatism on our side of the border increases.
Canadians have internalized the idea that the American government cannot be trusted and we need as many friends as we can get, and Carney is doing a good job on that front.
What’s going on is that Carney is a very right leaning liberal (aka a centrist) such that some Conservative MPs align more with the current liberal government than PP’s further right appeasement club.
PP’s supporters are rude. Their behaviour online alienates everyone else. You don’t win in Canadian national politics by acting like a bunch of jackasses. This isn’t the USA.
Canadians long for the old Conservative Party. Not the Reform party (current iteration). Pandering to extremists is a losing battle with a moderate electorate. Someone should really revive the PC brand and make the CPC obsolete.
Any analysis on how Pierre is as a party leader? Leading caucus?
Seems pretty clear to me: even though he won the leadership review by a landslide, at least of a few of his MPs are not very happy. Unhappy enough, it seems, to take a giant gamble with their political futures.
That says to me that Poilievre is not doing a great job with his caucus. That, maybe, a lot of his caucus kinda don’t like where he’s going. Maybe even don’t like him.
Also: some remarks here that the Tories have made a change, and aren’t the same. My hot take on this is that a lot of Canadians haven’t seen much of a change (N.B.: you can still buy an „Axe the Tax“ shirt on the CPC website). Similarly, you can’t actually find much information about what Poilievre did in Germany or the UK, other than „meet with business leaders“ and generic stuff like that. Lastly, I think a lot of Canadians made their minds up about Poilievre in 2025, or earlier. It’s going to take a track record of genuine accomplishments before that opinion changes direction.
In my OPINION: Any intelligent CPC MP would leave the party first chance they get. Half the base [supports Trump](https://cultmtl.com/2026/02/50-of-conservatives-say-they-approve-of-donald-trump/) that is not good news for long term political survival.
I think CPC needs to be burnt to the ground and then needs to rise up as 2-3 different parties.
One party that’s serious about governing with cutting taxes and services approach
One that does identity politics
One party that’s about taking all of taxes and funneling them to their rich donors