Many in Poilievre’s caucus won their elections by thin margins, and could see him as be a drag on their careers and ambitions

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In the spring of 2001, a group of MPs resigned from the official Opposition Canadian Alliance caucus, in protest at the faltering leadership of Stockwell Day, to form the so-called “Rebel Alliance.”

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By fall, seven MPs established the Democratic Representative Caucus (DRC), led by their parliamentary leader, Chuck Strahl.

It wasn’t until Day lost a leadership race to Stephen Harper in spring 2002 that the dissident DRC members returned to the fold.

There are rumblings in Ottawa that discontent in Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative caucus might see the formations of the Rebel Alliance Redux, after this weekend’s leadership review.

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