But when the next federal election campaign comes around, it is Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre who will have to account for his many provincial travelling companions. The latest Conservative leader has abandoned the party’s hands-off approach to the ongoing court challenges to Quebec’s controversial securalism law. Is this the kind of philosophy a CPC federal government would condone and/or integrate into its approach to economic and social policy files? Until now, Poilievre has largely remained silent in the face of the controversial moves of a variety of conservative-friendly premiers. In Vancouver this week, Poilievre described the parliamentary press gallery (of which I am not a member) as an organization that purports to dictate the terms of the political conversation.

Source: thestar November 14, 2022 06:02 UTC