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#CdnPoli | Pierre Poilievre Stoking Fear and Blame

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Watch The Curse of Politics panel on the inevitability of a Pierre Poilievre government come 2025.

Canadians are 18½ months away from the next federal election, in October 2025.

If the polls are to be believed, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre — easily the most far-right leader ever of Canada’s Conservative Party — will sweep to power, to dominate federal governance from November 2025 thru October 2029.

If the 338 projection above is to be believed, Pierre Poilievre will secure somewhere in the neighbourhood of 210 seats in Parliament — for a gain of 91 seats, and a massive majority — while Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will be reduced to a rump caucus of approximately 62 Members of Parliament, with 93 MPs losing their seats.

Although the Curse of Politics panel — consisting of 45-year federal and provincial Liberal political veteran, the always avuncular and engagingly profane, David Herle, with Kory Teneycke representing the forces of evil (oh, we mean, the federal Conservative Party, where he played a central role in the Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper), and longtime New Democratic Party stalwart, Jordan Leichnitz, who as you’ll see and hear when you take in this must-watch / listen to podcast — will leave you convinced Justin Trudeau’s Liberals don’t have a hope in hell of retaining government past 2025.

There are those who might disagree.

https://twitter.com/VoiceOfFranky/status/1763041456959148193

Frank Graves is the founder of one of Canada’s most respected polling companies, EKOS Research, covering every federal campaign since 1980. When Mr. Graves suggests Pierre Poilievre doesn’t have a win in the bag, he’s a man to be listened to.

Of course, only Pierre Poilievre can fix a broken Canada. Or can he?

You’ll want to take the time to read the 68 comment replies on the post above.

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Today, VanRamblings leaves you in the capable hands of …

  • David Herle, host of the Curse of Politics podcast, longtime Liberal strategist and pollster, frequent CBC News commentator, principal in the Gandalf Research Group, and in 2013 Ontario Liberal Party campaign manager in that year’s election, which afforded Kathleen Wynne a come-from-behind victory, electing her as Premier;
  • Scott Reid, Director of Communications for former Prime Minister Paul Martin, and current CTVNews’ political commentator — both Mr. Herle and Mr. Reid proudly successful 40-year veterans of federal (and provincial) Liberal politics;
  • Kory Teneycke, former Director of Communications in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office, and 2018 campaign manager for Doug Ford’s Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during that year’s election, which elected Mr.  Ford Premier; and
  • Jordan Leichnitz, an NDP stalwart, longtime progressive political strategist who worked for over a decade in the offices of former federal NDP leader, Jack Layton, and current NDP leader Jagmeet Singh,  and CBC Power & Politics commentator.

The four Curse of Politics panelists discuss the state and nature of federal politics in Canada, providing delightfully profane insight into what the heck is going in Canadian federal politics, the issues of the week, and more, much much more.

The Curse of Politics is also available as an Apple, Android and Spotify podcast.