This week, Poilievre was speaking to the elite of Canada’s “conservative movement.” For any other new Conservative leader, the stakes of a speech in that kind of room might have been enormous. But not for Poilievre.
OTTAWA — It was a version of a speech Pierre Poilievre delivered dozens of times to rallies in months of running for leadership of the Conservative party.
So although it was from within this group that the knives came out for Andrew Scheer, when he led the Conservatives to defeat in 2019, and for Erin O’Toole, when he similarly failed in 2021, the consensus today is that Poilievre is safe.Why that is speaks to the challenge ahead of him that insiders say he’s perfectly positioned to tackle: keeping the old guard happy but bringing in new soldiers at the same time.
And there were the party luminaries too, chief among them former Reform party leader Preston Manning and former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. Poilievre was a junior cabinet minister in Harper’s government, where he cut his teeth as a pugilistic force on the front benches in the House of Commons, and the two still speak frequently.
That performance, several told the Star, will get him what his two immediate predecessors did not: a chance to push the party in policy directions it hasn’t gone in the past. “Pierre Poilievre’s team deserves tremendous credit for both its broad-base message but in particular, a message that reflects the interests and needs of working-class voters as they are, not as we think them to be,” former Harper adviser Sean Speer told the conference.
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