Posted on 05/05/2025 5:37:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Seat-less Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will try his luck in Alberta.
After losing on election night in his now-former Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, the Tory leader will get the chance to snag a seat in the House of Commons thanks to Battle River-Crowfoot MP Damien Kurek, who has agreed to step aside.
“It has been a tremendous honour to serve the good people of Battle River-Crowfoot as their Member of Parliament since 2019,” Kurek said in a statement.
“Their support and commitment to the Conservative movement and our mission to bring back hope and prosperity to this country has been unmatched. Which is why, after much discussion with my wife Danielle, and I have decided to step aside for this Parliamentary session to allow our Conservative Party leader to run here in a byelection.”
Battle River-Crowfoot ranks among the safest Conservative seats in Canada.
A rural constituency in east-central Alberta between Red Deer and the Saskatchewan Border, towns within the riding include Stettler, Hanna, Drumheller and Camrose.
Kurek represented the riding since 2019, and commanded 82% of the vote in Monday’s election.
Formed after a 2012 redistricting, the riding has reliably sent conservative-leaning candidates to Ottawa for nearly a decade.
In 1977, Crowfoot MP “Cactus Jack” Horner scandalously crossed the aisle from the Progressive Conservatives to join Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet.
He was soundly defeated by the PC candidate two years later.
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Pierre Poilievre is apparently too wimpy to save Canaduh.
Kerry Diotte also offered to step aside to allow him to run.
Hopefully Polliviere can win.
Canadians are too socialized to warrant salvation. In order to turn Canada around, it must suffer the consequences of liberalism.
I sadly believe you are right.
When I wuz a kid in the 50s and 60s and even as a young Adult in the 70s, I ventured across the Border frequently and found it to be a Great Place.
If P.P. was anything other than an ineffectual milquetoast as party leader then this would be good news, I suppose.
Carpetbagger.
Another Mitt Romney, pretend opponent.
Poilievre was born and raised in Calgary. He’s not from Quebec.
So he was carpetbagging when he ran for a seat in Ontario.
How the hell do you get “Polyev” ” out of Poilievery. That’s the first problem. You can’t even pronounce his stupid F’n name in English.
The people apparently already spoke, and what they said was they did not support the weakling. What happens if they convey the same exact message?
No, the people did not speak. What happened is that the liberals redistricted the riding to ensure that immigrants would be the primary voters and then the liberals had added 85 people, at least, to the choices of the ballot. All of them pretend conservatives, who gave a false message.
It was pure manipulation that cost him the seat.
That’s hardball politics that the Conservatives should have been ready for. They were caught flat-footed.
I don’t think, when you increase the riding’s population by 50% by redistricting so it has at least 50% of immigrants, that there is anything that you can do to get the support needed to over come that.
Being out of power means that you can’t contest the redistribution of a population. Poilievre actually increased his support, as a percentage, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the immigrant factor. Immigrants almost also vote liberal.
Understand, but that could not have been unanticipated.
May be inside baseball, but seems he could run in a riding in Alberta to begin with? He’s from there and a known quantity.
I assume that Poilievre was well aware of what was happening. There just wasn’t anything he can do about it. Immigrants from countries, where government power is a thing to seek, for the common good, for are not going to be receptive to the idea of reducing government.
If you were a politician and it was my vote alone that would determine whether you get to keep or your seat or not and I loved government and you explained to me the virtue and advantaging of reducing government and I said, “I’m voting for government anyway.”
What are you going to do about that?
He had his seat for 20 years, so it seemed the lowest cost to stay there.
Understand, thanks for the info.
The French stole most of the vowels from the Slavs some centuries back....
Ranked Choice Voting on steroids.
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