majority government<\/a> and being able to pass any bill without the support of an opposition party.<\/p>\nIn a speech to party members before the party vote, Poilievre did not mention U.S. President Donald Trump’s name despite the president’s ongoing threats to Canada’s economy and sovereignty. <\/p>\n
Poilievre did talk about supporting Carney’s efforts to remove U.S. tariffs and diversify Canada’s exports. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn this dangerous and uncertain world Canadians must stand united so we can stand on our own two feet. United and strong Canadians will bow before no nation anywhere on earth,\u201d Poilievre said before the party vote. <\/p>\n
Until last year Poilievre was seen as a shoo-in to become Canada\u2019s next prime minister and shepherd his Conservative Party back into power for the first time in a decade. Then, Trump declared economic war on the U.S.\u2019s neighbor to the north and even threatened to make Canada the 51st state.<\/p>\n
Trump has continued to threaten Canada, which has infuriated Canadians and led to a sharp decline in Canadian visiting the U.S. <\/p>\n
Daniel B\u00e9land, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, noted some political commentators and even former Conservative cabinet minister and Alberta premier Jason Kenney are already criticizing Poilievre \u201cfor not addressing the US presidential elephant in the room, which is currently such a key issue for so many Canadian voters of various partisan and ideological stripes.\u201d<\/p>\n
B\u00e9land said Poilievre and his party are facing an uphill battle.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany members of the base like him but, as far as the broader Canadian electorate is concerned, he\u2019s much less popular than Mark Carney, who recently shined on the world stage at Davos and has recentred the Liberal Party of Canada ideologically in ways that even some moderate conservative voters like,\u201d B\u00e9land said. <\/p>\n
Carney used a high-profile speech last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to condemn economic coercion<\/a> by great powers on smaller countries. The prime minister received widespread praise and attention for his remarks, upstaging Trump at the gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Members of Canada’s Conservative opposition party voted to keep Pierre Poilievre as their leader despite his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[183787,1331,49,48,183786,3411,2841,16370,131305,44,714,883],"class_list":["post-445324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-183787","tag-article","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conservatism","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-legislation","tag-liberalism","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}