With everything else that is going on in the world – Iran reportedly slaughtering 30,000 of its own citizens, the names of dozens of Trump administration figures showing up in the latest dump of sordid Epstein files, Canada beset by Arctic temperatures in a winter without end – Pierre Poilievre’s fate doesn’t seem terribly relevant.

Honestly, who cares?

Card-carrying Conservatives obviously did.

Several thousand participated in this weekend’s review of Poilievre’s leadership. An impressive 87% of them voted to keep him around. Polls, too, show a majority in the Conservative base remain unabashed fans.

But Canadians, in substantial numbers, just aren’t. Conservatives adore Pierre Poilievre – and Canadian voters remain deeply unimpressed.

That truth hasn’t been changed by the leadership review conducted at the Tory convention in Calgary. One Liaison Strategies poll released this week showed Poilievre underwater everywhere in Canada. (Except in Alberta, that is, where the convention coincidentally took place.)

While the Conservatives were still gathering, Abacus’ David Coletto wrote that........

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