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From Carmine Starnino, editor-in-chief:
As the Conservative Party’s federal convention opens today, Pierre Poilievre faces an unusually fraught test for a leader tasked with unifying his party. The convention is the first since the 2025 federal election, in which the Tories squandered a once-commanding polling lead and lost. Under party rules, that defeat automatically triggers a confidence vote, forcing delegates to decide whether Poilievre should stay at the helm.
The context is awkward. Poilievre remains popular with the party base but is falling out of favour among the broader electorate. Those stakes are laid out starkly in today’s story by Claire Porter Robbins. Poilievre is widely expected to survive the leadership review, but his situation underscores the bind he’s in: how to hold onto a Trump-pilled base without further alienating the voters he failed to win last time. |
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Robbins’s piece is a sharp dissection of the Conservatives’ strategic crisis. We’ve been reporting on Poilievre from the moment he began to successfully tap into the country’s populist discontent. I hope you’ll also spend some time with a selection of that excellent work.
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