{"id":82787,"date":"2025-08-20T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82787\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:02:07","slug":"pierre-poilievre-touts-alberta-by-election-win-as-sign-of-political-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82787\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Poilievre touts Alberta by-election win as sign of political resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre celebrates winning the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election in Camrose, Alta., on Monday.JASON FRANSON\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Pierre Poilievre<\/a> is touting his by-election win in Alberta this week as a sign of political resilience, saying he will go on to hold the government accountable on such issues as crime, the economy and its commitment to electric-vehicle mandates.<\/p>\n

The federal Conservative Leader won the riding of Battle River-Crowfoot with 80.4 per cent of the vote on Monday<\/a>, setting the stage for his return to the House of Commons after being defeated in his long-time Ottawa-area riding in the April federal election.<\/p>\n

However, it remains unclear whether he will be sworn in as an MP by the time members return to the Commons on Sept. 15 after the summer break.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo anyone who has been knocked down, but has got back up and kept on going, you haven\u2019t given up, so I won\u2019t give up,\u201d Mr. Poilievre told supporters in the riding on Monday.<\/p>\n

He ran in Battle River-Crowfoot after Damien Kurek, who won the riding in April, stepped down to allow his party leader a chance to seek a seat.<\/p>\n

Going forward, Mr. Poilievre faces a vote on his leadership at a party convention in Calgary in January after the Conservatives, with him at the helm, failed to win the general election despite routinely leading the Liberals in public-opinion polling ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n

Three takeaways after Poilievre wins Alberta by-election<\/a><\/p>\n

During his victory speech Monday night, Mr. Poilievre did not explicitly mention his setbacks but spoke generally about continuing to fight for his political agenda in the face of challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe road to success is never a straight line,\u201d Mr. Poilievre said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs my mother, who\u2019s here today, taught me, when you get knocked down, you get up and you keep going. If you believe in what you\u2019re doing, you march forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That push appears to be set to continue Wednesday with the Official Opposition Leader holding a news conference in Surrey, B.C., to announce policies on crime.<\/p>\n

New public-opinion data from Nanos Research, released Tuesday, suggest the Liberals, under Mark Carney, have 44-per-cent support, compared with 32 per cent for the Conservatives and 12 per cent for the NDP.<\/p>\n

The same research suggests Mr. Poilievre trails Mr. Carney by 27 percentage points in preferred prime minister tracking \u2013 with the two leaders receiving 24-per-cent and 51-per-cent support, respectively \u2013 and with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada-U.S. relations being respondents\u2019 No. 1 concern. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Liberals remain in the drivers\u2019 seat in the post-election period,\u201d Nik Nanos, the company\u2019s chief data scientist, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre secured a seat in the House of Commons late Monday, winning a by-election in Alberta’s Battle River-Crowfoot.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Mr. Poilievre said that more than 150 days after Mr. Carney took office, Canada remains plagued by challenges related to crime, immigration, housing costs and inflation. <\/p>\n

This fall in Parliament, he said, Conservatives will oppose the Liberals and offer solutions to help create safe streets and secure borders. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to be ready to work with any party to get these results,\u201d he said, adding that includes issues around tariffs imposed by the United States. \u201cWe continue to extend our hand to Mr. Carney and say that we want to work with any party to put an end to tariffs and get a fair deal for Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Poilievre has already said his party will push the Liberals to repeal a mandate, aimed at reducing emissions, requiring 20 per cent of vehicles sold in Canada in 2026 to be zero-emission models, rising to 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035.<\/p>\n

Ginny Roth, who served as communications director for Mr. Poilievre\u2019s successful 2022 Conservative leadership bid and is now a partner at the Crestview Strategy public-affairs agency, said he must balance a critique of where the government has fallen short of its commitments with advancing Conservative solutions.<\/p>\n

Opinion: Pierre Poilievre can be an attack dog and a grown-up all at the same time<\/a><\/p>\n

She said the necessity of Mr. Poilievre campaigning for the by-election provided him sustained engagement with voters, which may have given him perspective helpful for dealing with the Liberal government.<\/p>\n

Ms. Roth also said the Conservative Leader should not change his combative tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoilievre\u2019s fighter tone, which is authentic to him, is an incredible asset of his, and it\u2019s what allowed him to build the biggest Conservative coalition since the Harper majority in 2011, and so to abandon that would be foolish,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should continue. Poilievre should be Poilievre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Alberta by-election was targeted by the Longest Ballot Committee, a protest group that advocates for electoral reform by stacking ballots with dozens of independent candidates<\/a> who are not trying to win.<\/p>\n

In Battle River-Crowfoot, the list of registered candidates stretched to 214 names, 201 of them associated with the Longest Ballot Committee. The result, ironically, was the creation of the shortest ballot possible.<\/p>\n

Elections Canada announced that, rather than print all the names on each ballot, it would instead require voters to write their preferred candidate\u2019s name. The elections agency said each ballot would be counted as long as the voter\u2019s intention was clear.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the agency said its strategy was based on lessons learned from previous long-ballot protests.<\/p>\n

Matthew McKenna said in a statement that Elections Canada will assess how the vote proceeded and publish the details of that review in coming months. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs this was the first time Elections Canada has used a write-in ballot for advance and election day polls, we will look closely at how things went yesterday to see what worked well and what could be improved should such a ballot be used again in future elections,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre celebrates winning the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election in Camrose, Alta.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-82787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82787","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=82787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}