The Daily Populous Tuesday April 29th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by CityLiving2023

“It will be an honor to continue to fight for you and be a champion for your cause as we go forward,” he said.

At the end of 2024, Poilievre was tipped to be Canada’s next leader up 25 points over unpopular then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

But a remarkable campaign cycle dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and inflammatory rhetoric about making Canada the 51st American state, along with Trudeau’s resignation and the rapid rise of former banking chief Carney, triggered a swift reversal of fortunes.

Poilievre had previously embraced some Trump-style policies, such as cutting foreign aid and defunding state media, and the Liberals sought to portray him as aligned with the controversial U.S. president.

He is the first major party leader to be unseated at an election since 1993, when then-Prime Minister Kim Campbell of the Progressive Conservatives lost her seat in an electoral bloodbath.

During Carney’s victory speech, when a supporter yelled out “Bruce,” the prime minister replied that he was “looking forward to working with Bruce Fanjoy.”

Logical_Welder3467 on April 29th, 2025 at 12:14 UTC »

This had to be the biggest fumble in Canadian political history. He got an open goal and slipped on the tap in

momomo-mo on April 29th, 2025 at 11:06 UTC »

I haven’t seen anyone else mention this yet but this morning when he was giving his speech, the conservative crowd booed his mention of mark carney and were genuinely silent when he mentioned trump…what exactly has carney done to receive that kind of response from the conservatives?

(edit: for the record i am a Canadian but i am so baffled that they have more vitriol for him for just being a liberal rather than the man who has threatened to essentially starve us so we bow to him in sorry like party allegiances aside that’s just insane)

Dulse_eater on April 29th, 2025 at 10:58 UTC »

Incredible really. He had this thing the bag and now he won’t even be in the HOC.