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Carson Jerema: Here's how Poilievre can keep his job and defeat Carney

The problems facing Canada are the same as under Trudeau

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Conservatives who think leader Pierre Poilievre needs to step down are doing their party no favours. There is also little agreement about why he needs to go, at least when you factor in the differing opinions from online activists and MPs speaking anonymously to Ottawa reporters over the past year.

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He’s by some accounts too mean, and by others, not mean enough. He’s either too much like a Liberal or not enough like one. Not focused enough on U.S. President Donald Trump, or too much like him. Too focused on the economy, or too focused on the culture war. Take your pick, there is a constituency of Conservatives who will identify one or all of these, no matter how contradictory, as the reasons why the Opposition trails in the polls.

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Yet the party, under Poilievre, won a higher percentage of the popular vote last election than any conservative party since 1988. More importantly, as others have pointed out, Poilievre’s success at getting younger Canadians excited about voting Conservative is virtually unheard of in the western world.

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