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Nick Wright's avatar

Surely this was the easy part: recognizing that the party has moved to Canada's version of the far right and pitching his appeal accordingly. Poilievre still has to rebuild the party's policy platform from the ground up, while being cognizant of the need to appeal outside his angry base, prevent progressive conservatives from leaving and keep the hungry tiger he's now riding from devouring him. Nothing in the bigger electoral picture has changed since O'Toole; how will Poilievre pull off what O'Toole couldn't to move on to win government?

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Julian Heller's avatar

Thank you for this , Eric. I listened on the car radio to the acceptance speech. PP is not my guy, nor is the CPC, but it was a powerful, logical, carefully conceived presentation. Several specific policy highlights do make sense and will have appeal - housing esp for 30 somethings, use of public lands, and use of domestic vs “ dictator “ oil . Look out Justin , and the NDP (who will lose voters to both CPC and to Liberals to ward off scary PP).

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