He came out on top in Toronto's University–Rosedale and Ottawa Centre - domains of professors and public servants, not anti-establishment rabble rousers. Charest won the remaining eight, six in Quebec and two in Ontario.Ĭharest barely won a majority of votes in his hometown of Sherbrooke, Que. Poilievre won 68.15 percent of points, and carried the vote in a staggering 330 ridings. But he racked up only 56.2 percent of the available points, and finished second in most Atlantic and Quebec ridings. HE REALLY WON BIG, GUYS - CPC godfather STEPHEN HARPER won the leadership convincingly in 2004 over BELINDA STRONACH. On Saturday night, no one on the convention floor, or in the pubs later on, was talking about Harper. Every leader since has left some members pining for the good old days. Only Harper has ever kept most of the party happy most of the time. It's not like there aren't caveats: In her own morning-after thread, Charest press secretary LAURENCE TÔTH hoped "harmful and toxic behaviours will be denounced more and that they will not occupy the place they do in the (Conservative Party)'s offices." Poilievre’s policies may have seemed at times provocative, but he captured an increasingly popular sentiment that is looking for the clearest break from the Liberals." "There is an anger in the land, and half of Canadian society is looking for a clean break from the way politics is conducted," he wrote. He credited Poilievre with tapping into a zeitgeist of anxiety. "Let's move on, unite the party, and form the next government," he said in a video.Ĭharest's campaign co-chair MIKE COATES also timed a National Post op-ed for the morning after. On Sunday morning, JEAN CHAREST urged supporters to get behind the winner - almost as if the relentless personal attacks had never occurred. By Saturday, they’d changed their tune.Īnd the scale of the victory appears to have dictated the scale of contrition from Poilievre's top rival. MENDING FENCES - Just weeks before the result, some strident operatives insisted to Playbook that they’d never campaign for a party led by Poilievre. Related listening: On CBC's Front Burner this morning: Understanding Pierre Poilievre, Part 1. Poilievre's picks for that team - from deputy leader to the least consequential critic portfolio - will be his first test of caucus management.Ī happy caucus is a unified caucus. The caucus will need a shadow Cabinet before Sept. Sixty-two MPs and seven senators in the room endorsed the new leader. at the Sir John A Macdonald Building on Wellington Street. “This is the battle that Conservatives want, and it’s the battle that Liberals want,” GARY KELLER, a vice-president at Strateg圜orp and seasoned vet of Tory politics, tells POLITICO.įirst up for Poilievre is a national caucus meeting scheduled for today at 10 a.m. What's next: Everybody is spoiling for a fight - in 2025, if not before. The mood was electric when leadership vote organizer IAN BRODIE announced Poilievre the winner.
Poilievre's brief appearance in that video tribute prompted the evening's first roar, but not the last. Translation: She saved caucus from self-destruction. Another pre-taped video featured dozens of caucus members thanking her for her service in the interregnum between O'Toole's exit and whatever was about to happen next. Not an elegant exit for a leader the room wanted to forget.īergen was received as an interim hero. It was like a typical show at the National Arts Centre - the first rows eventually stood, then everyone else slowly took their cue. O'Toole's unity call received a tepid ovation. The Shaw Centre floor was clear about its preferences. That rhetoric might be a reflex, but the scale of Poilievre's victory is unlike anything Conservatives have seen in their modern form. Now, today, we are one party serving one country."
New leader, Poilievre:"To supporters of all of these fine candidates, I open my arms to you.
Interim leader CANDICE BERGEN, in her farewell:"Live, talk and walk unity." Former leader ERIN O'TOOLE, in a pre-taped video:"Where there is unity, there is always victory." Emcee DEB GRAY: "Left wing, center ice or right wing, we're all on the same team." Unity was a rhetorical guest of honor at Saturday's leadership event, where PIERRE POILIEVRE ran away with the party's leadership. It'd be weird not to remind members, politicians and operatives that the battle is over and they should put away their knives. Calls for unity follow every leadership campaign in every political party. THE ELUSIVE U-WORD -Take it with a grain of salt.
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