Conservative MP gives up seat for Pierre Poilievre to run in byelection
Conservative MP gives up seat for Pierre Poilievre to run in byelection
A Conservative MP is giving up his seat to allow Pierre Poilievre to run in a byelection after Prime Minister Mark Carney said he’d be ready to call one 'as soon as possible.'
They picked that riding for a reason. The Cons got 81.8% of the vote in the recent election in that riding.
I wish we had the requirement that you must LIVE in the riding you're running for and have lived there the past 2 years at least. Should also have to live there the entire time in office as well.
Hilarious that a bunch of Albertans that hate Ottawa politicians are about to vote in an Ottawa politician.
Perfectly on brand, tbh.
They love freedom, but not for trans or gays.
They love their country, but they hate paying the taxes to support it.
They love democracy, but they hate when anybody else wins.
They hate tyranny, but they love to back traitors.
Because they're not consistent. It's not about anyone being an Ottawa politician, it's just their tribalist victim complex.
Exactly, your MP is supposed to represent your local interest. If they don't live there why the fuck would they care about you and your interests?
The last thing I would change is you only get paid the median wage of the people who you represent.
Truly a person of the people
It would encourage you to do a better job and try and lift your community to greater heights
Sweet another chance to take that one from him too
All the people that thought Poilievre would not continue as the opposition leader need a wake up call. You still don't understand what you're fighting against. Cult of personality is a major pillar of fascism, and loyalty (to the leader, not to the country) is the most valuable trait. Poilievre had a few humiliating defeats but he's still gaining grounds for the CPC, and the conservative wave is still on it sway, bolder and with lots of resentments piled up.
Take this seriously. The enemy doesn't have to be smart or competent, they just need to amass power. https://www.antihate.ca/40ways
What kind of calculus do you think the liberal party has done just now…. Let loser Polievre come back to show himself to be more of an obstructionist loser that he continues to be??? He’s going to block Carney’s agenda again just like they did during the last house sitting. Also Scheer is an absolute thumb head. Polievre is a coward and a hypocrite.
What kind of calculus do you think the liberal party has done just now
Carney's response to the byelection question was basicailly "He can have his byelection if he wants. I'm too busy with more important things to waste time with silly partisan games"
Which makes sense. No need to hand the conservatives a "see the liberals are blocking democracy' talking point.
I didn't expect him to voluntarily step down.
I expect the party to follow it's own damn rules and have the leadership review that their party rules requires after a losing election.
Of course, they could still do that after he inevitably wins in one of the safest seats in the country.
Oh wow, that link is a great resource! I had no idea it existed. Gonna share that around my circles for sure.
If I just voted for someone and then they quit to allow someone else to run and I needed to go vote AGAIN just for some power play I would be fucking pissed. Hopefully these voters are as well.
Voters rejected PP.
It seems like this other Conservative isn't confident in their own ability to act as an MP. And it doesn't look good to give your seat up to a loser.
It also shows to the people in the riding that they don't matter ... the position is just to get a politician into power not to represent actual people.
So the unemployed loser went to daddy for a handout. I want to know how much he paid the other guy for switching places.
On Friday, the Conservative Party announced Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek will resign to allow Poilievre to run in an upcoming byelection.
Kurek was first elected in the Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot in 2019.
The Conservatives handily won that riding on Monday with nearly 82 per cent of the vote.
Of course it's Alberta and solidly blue.
poilievre is now a DEI hire exactly in the way the cons lie and misrepresent DEI hires
Something something safe space, something something inclusion, something something participation trophy.
Why did a lid suddenly appear on this bin in the second frame?
Most likely AI.
They don’t use lids in Ontario.
Dude hasn't had a real job, so having things handed to him like this is prob second nature for him.
Where's the Rhinoceros Party when you need them? There's no chance in hell that riding flips for the Liberals, and likely not for the NDP, but an independent running on a platform of "hear me out, this will be hilarious" just might stand a chance.
That's going to be entertaining to see a liberal win that seat well
It's an Alberta riding that went 82% Conservative in the last election. It's highly unlikely.
About as unlikely as going from a projected super majority to an 8% chance of forming a Government?
It's a riding in deep-blue Alberta. Not going to happen.
Here is the 388Canada link to the riding.
A chance to take another seat from them. Heck, if he loses there, too, he might even try again!
He won't lose in battle river.
If you don't run, you have already lost the race.
See a lot of post just about the 81.8%(53,502) of votes, but the bigger thing is that it's out of 81,123 electors so even if every other elector went to a single candidate plus another 10k swung from Conservative's that would still not be enough.
Very descriptive quote from Wikipedia:
Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding.
They really wanted to make sure Monsieur Poil was safe.
Okay Battle River-Crowfoot, you know what to do
It’s exceptionally blue even for Alberta but who knows? I hope the liberal candidate calls Fanjoy for tips and starts TODAY. It’s not impossible.
Nauseating. Listening to Andrew Failure Scheer on Power & Politics rn and it’s abhorrent as is the entire con party of Poilievre fluffers as professional rim jobbers to fash.
Clearly you've not heard the new Ben Mulroney am radio show....
I never listen to that tool.
@Quilotoa Hmmm political welfare program
Someone please tell Trump about this.
Is "The New Republic" serious or a joke site? I cannot tell as the headline is too strighforward.
Right-Wing Canadian Candidate Begs Trump to Stop Posting Weird Things
It's a legit site.
OK, Battle River - you know what to do! LOL
Everyone is so mad at the cons who havent held power for a decade, meanwhile the party that won was ordering unions back to work and importing UN wage slaves to depress salaries, as they borrow money to buy half of all mortgage bonds to provide more full recourse loans to for-profit banks to extort the population during a clearly deliberate housing crisis.
I think that the capital gains tax hike Carney already rolled back was all a ploy to win the election, as was Freelands fake outrage over the massive budget overage. The party that won is just an entity that scams the population to continue to rob the poor; who knew Trudeau's best before date was expiring, and orchestrated Trudeau's further unpopularity in order to bring in a savior to roll it all back and promise to restore fiscal sanity. Yet everyone is here clapping about our current situation while we literally have no labor party, after the NDP likely intentionally destroyed itself via a rich lawyer in a rolex, who hasnt raised taxes on the rich a solitary dime to fund anything despite holding the entire balance of power in his hands.
Canada is screwed, we've been scammed again. The rich orchestrated all of this, and nothing about the Liberals plans have changed; the immigration numbers are the same as planned, the spending is the same, the entire cabinet is the same. The wealth inequality will continue to grow, and if you're poor you'll get to keep your unfunded dental checks while your cost of living continues to rise far more than the scraps you are given.
The most clear proof is you've never heard Carney talk about the housing crisis prior to the election, you've never heard him say a single word against forcing unions back to work, never made mention of the insane spending or negative per capita GDP growth, it was radio silence as all these terrible things happened. The most progressive thing he did was make millions promoting ESG for Brookfield to sell investments at an inflated markup, because Brookfield is an alternative investment corporation, no different than Blackrock whose fees are also significantly higher on ESG funds they promote.
I'm mad at both, alas the NDP or Greens didn't campaign hard enough, and the liberals campaigned really well under the threat of Canada electing a conservative government that would threaten their sovereignty.
Thankfully, it wasn't a majority win for the liberals. But I think you're right that a lot of the existing problems will continue.
We can only hope that we get a labour party rebuilt from the ashes that can make some stronger plays.
Also I do want to say, Carney did mention housing crisis prior to the election and campaigning. Just so no one does a "gotcha" on you because of it. My memory is vague but it was still the same hand wavey acknowledgement the previous liberal government gave. So your technically right, just trying to get ahead of anyone else saying it.
Nauseating. Fuck this fascist POS and his followers. A coward and a hypocrite.