That the Poilievre Conservatives chose not to grab the culture war ring when they had the chance will go down as one of the greatest campaign blunders of all time.
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Yup. They failed to grab lots of rings. Too busy clutching their pearls.
Too busy trying to curry favor with the 75% of Canadians who are leftist idiots. Hey PP!! A large percentage of those Canadian voters will HATE you no matter WHAT you do. A small but needed percentage of them will still listen to unwavering logic and reason. You LOST that percentage when you joined the Orangemanbad bandwagon.
Oh well go along to get along works for weak willed people. And a leopard can never change his spots … eh weak-willed PP?
For context, PP was campaigning in Kelowna a while back, and my wife saw him at a liquor store with some metro buddies and PP had earrings on and was acting less than conservative.
Just sayin’….
How … odd. Has he come out of the closet yet?
PP…was acting less than conservative.
Anytime the [spit] Progs can rip up planks from your campaign platform & use them as their own w/ impunity, you ain’t GD “conservative”.
He effed up bad. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Some contend he was controlled opposition…I’m not totally discounting that claim.
Wasn’t totally on board with him anyways…I know it sounds like Monday morning quarterbacking but his pitch to lay down another hundred yards or so on Toronto Island Airport as if that was the burning issue all Canadians were thinking about was my “WTF are you even talking about???”.
Distancing himself from Trump wasn’t exactly a profiles in courage moment for him either.
God doesn’t love a coward Pierre.
…as if that was the burning issue all Canadians were thinking about…
Same as his call to get rid of the single use plastic ban. Seriously, PP? You couldn’t come up w/ a coupla dozen more important things than that?
As much as I would like to believe there are enough Canadians who would side with common sense in the culture wars, I don’t. Coward sheep will always take the easy way, tall poppies are ruthlessly eaten by the sheep. Shithole.
“As much as I would like to believe there are enough Canadians who would side with common sense in the culture wars, I don’t.
I’m not sure if you’re correct in that assumption or not, Peter…but I know I would at least like to see someone TRY to explain it to them. Just once.
The Cons put their faith in the polling that gave them confidence in having pulled in the mindless mushy middle and they didn’t want to spoil it with actual policy that differentiated them from the left. In the deranged dominion I don’t know if it would have made any difference given the media getting all moist over the Carney and their delusion of him standing up to Trump.
“I don’t know if it would have made any difference given the media getting all moist over the Carney and their delusion of him standing up to Trump.”
I would have put Carney on the defensive by asking him exactly how he proposed to ”stand up to Trump”. Specifically…how? What exact steps do you plan to take, and how will you deal with the economically *devastating* American response that is sure to follow?
Raising my doubts even higher about his courage and leadership the party now reinstates him in a riding where it is no challenge at all. They could run a poodle in this riding and win. But again…taking no risks.
I don’t dismiss that this riding choice is also an “op” to prop up Canadian patriotism in a region where this loyalty is now in question.
He’s running in my riding.
Folks here are conservatives and I guess we’ll find out if they think he is a conservative or not.
Oh, and BTW, Max is out stumping for the PPC.
Should be an interesting split.
Declared candidates
Pierre Poilievre
Poilievre was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to Ottawa in 2000 to work for Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election, initially representing the riding of Nepean—Carleton before it was redistributed as Carleton. In 2008, Poilievre graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Calgary. Poilievre ran in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, winning on the first ballot to become the leader of the Conservative Party. He also served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 2022 to 2025. In the 2025 Canadian federal election, Poilievre lost his seat of Carleton to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy.
Darcy Spady
Spady, a petroleum engineer and energy industry advisor from Alberta, was named as the candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada for the byelection on June 30.[11][12] Previously, he was international president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers from 2018 to 2021.
Jonathan Bridges
Bridges has lived in the Battle River—Crowfoot area for 15 years and is running as the candidate for the People’s Party of Canada.[13] In the 2021 Canadian federal election, Bridges ran as the People’s Party candidate in Bow River and finished second, receiving 5108 votes (10%). In the 2025 Canadian federal election, Bridges ran as the People’s Party candidate in Battle River—Crowfoot and finished fourth, receiving 1022 votes (1.5%).
Bonnie Critchley
Critchley, born in Kelowna and raised in Calgary, is an independent candidate and military veteran, having served at CFB Wainwright for “a large chunk” of her 22 years of service.[17] She achieved the rank of master corporal in the King’s Own Calgary Regiment of the Canadian Army, after deploying to Afghanistan in 2011.[18] She describes herself as a “centrist independent”.[17] She is a recipient of the General Campaign Star (South-West Asia) and the Canadian Forces’ Decoration.
Sarah Spanier
Spanier is running as an independent.[19] She was born in Calgary and has a diploma in Justice Studies from Bow Valley College and a degree in English. She has worked in childcare, security, and social services, with a focus on supporting vulnerable populations.
Longest Ballot Committee
The Longest Ballot Committee announced in May that they were targeting the by-election as part of its campaign protesting the first-past-the-post system and would aim to have as many as 200 candidates placed on the ballot. The committee previously targeted Poilievre’s former electoral district of Carleton in the 2025 general election and claimed responsibility for adding 85 names to the ballot in that vote.
The Connedservatives have a talent for choosing losers, PeePee, The tool, and a scheep, and there is the John, pork the hired help, Tory, plus many more who can’t win winnable elections.
It’s no wonder the CCP can’t win elections. Too many on the right insist that the CCP leader match their precise views on everything.
Or … they just don’t want their candidate to make STUPID choices … such as succumb to TDS
Case in point.
Also, CCP -> CPC. Fat fingers.
“Case in point.”
You don’t actually know what that phrase means, do you? It doesn’t apply in any way to what Kenji said.
CCP?
Poilievre should call on some of his friends like Doug Ford and Volodymyr Zelensky to help his campaign.
It’s awesome to see how quickly the Trans DEI movement is collapsing under strong leadership in the US
It’s completely and utterly glorious.
Thank Trump for that.
mhb23re
If they can’t communicate that ‘castrating children is a bad idea’ then something is seriously wrong with their brain trust.
The next Conservative leader needs to go full MAGA and align him/her self with MAGA and steal all the good policy (but not the phony Executive orders favored by MC). A good outcome for me what Kevin O Leary talks about, namely a free trade zone and a combined economy. Europe did this, there are still individual countries in Europe. Don’t get me wrong.. Europe is a shithole.
Absolutely true. He got into a “who will fight Trump harder” contest when he should have gone in the same direction as Trump and patiently explained how and why the President had a point about the situation vis a vis defense, the border, the Chinese, fentanyl and trade.
Bingo! But, think of it, he was too much of a chicken to even give Trump a call. And his other huge screw-up is that he should have used every tactic in the book to break the turdo-Singh lip lock from an early stage.
Jamie MacMaster
November 6, 2024 at 6:32 pm
Well, I tell you one thing: if Pee-Pee had guts and smarts he’d get a congratulatory phone call in to Trump before turdo.
CPC is still in Crisis TDS mode. Received a newsletter from the local MP. The CPC is still whining about how unfair Trump is treating Kanada. We’re essentially hooped unless Bernier and PPC makes some headway and stays conservative.
His position of continuing support for supply management is also nuts.
Sooner or later some politician will have the courage to say that the climate change stuff is all bullshit and a gigantic liberal con job, that the costs of warming to Canada are far, far outweighed by the benefits and that the whole EV thing and carbon taxes need to be repealed.
So far that’s no conservative which is disappointing.
Oh, there are conservatives saying those things, just no Conservatives.
His actions or lack there of speak much louder than his words.
“His actions or lack there of speak much louder than his words.”
They absolutely do. He does talk a good line (especially when eating an apple) but it’s all an act designed to fool us into thinking that there is some substantive difference between him
and any other Liberal Lite politician…