Braid: Poilievre's team gets ready for epic leadership review fight in Calgary Fact: Recent CPC leaders have not survived election losses. Poilievre is the third defeated CPC leader since 2019. His leadership odds are not great

Don Braid

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Fact: Recent CPC leaders have not survived election losses. Poilievre is the third defeated CPC leader since 2019. His leadership odds are not great

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Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review will go down on the former site of Stampede Wrestling. That may be appropriate.

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The storied grappler nights rumbled for decades in the old Stampede Corral. It was demolished in 2020-21 to make way for the new BMO Centre.

Thousands of Conservative Party of Canada delegates will pour in there from Jan. 29 to 31. Leadership review is the main item on the card.

Fact: Recent CPC leaders have not survived election losses. Erin O’Toole and Andrew Scheer were both ejected in short order.

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Poilievre is the third defeated CPC leader since 2019. His leadership odds are not great.

The loss of two MPs —