For my Canadian friends

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https://citizenvoice.us/threads/topic-drift-overflow.531/page-5 post #93

 

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Poilievre led the Conservative Party in the 2025 federal election. The Conservatives held a large polling lead in the run-up to the election until the resignation of Justin Trudeau and rhetoric from President Donald Trump calling for Canada to become the 51st state. The party increased their seat total from 120 to 144 seats and achieved the largest share of the popular vote since its founding in 2003; however, Poilievre lost his seat to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, and the governing Liberal Party led by Mark Carney was re-elected with a minority government. After losing his seat in Carleton, Poilievre contested the riding of Battle River—Crowfoot in Alberta, where a by-election was triggered following the resignation of Conservative MP Damien Kurek. Poilievre won the by-election on August 18.
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In reality Pierre Poilievre (aka PP) lost two elections - he blew a twenty point lead going into the Federal election and then he lost his own seat when his constituents showed him the door.

But the party parachuted him into what had to be the safest riding in the country - if you'd painted a rock blue it would have won. And Rigby's quote doesn't mention that the party asked the sitting MP (Damien Kurek) to resign so PP could run in his place.

Fact is, PP has never held a job outside of Parliament but he's somehow managed to convince the party to support him.