Now that Poilievre has lost his seat, its a perfect excuse for the party to say "See ya! Don't let the door hit you on your way out!"Yes he's quite hated but I just can't get past him almost calling him Millhouse 🤣 #cdnpoli #canada #canadasky #elxn45
— Jo (@darkcoffee8.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Alternately, it would be a perfect time for Poilievre himself to be the bigger person and withdraw from public life for a while - use his pension to regroup, maybe get a job at a think tank or an NGO or some such - then start working his way back up. That's what ordinary politicians do when they lose.
Instead, I keep hearing about how Poilievre just has to stay on as Conservative leader and Leader of the Opposition - I guess because he's just so popular? - and maybe he's going to run in a "safe" Conservative seat somewhere - though of course until last Monday, there appeared to be no safer seat in Canada than Carleton, since in various iterations they've been electing mostly Conservatives there since 1872 (yes, 1872!)CPC party dropped Andrew Scheer after the 2019 election and Erin O’Toole after the 2021 campaign. Both these leaders won the popular vote against the Liberals, but not the seat count. Mr. Poilievre lost both And, strike three, also his own seat. archive.is/L8c76 #cdnpoli
— Pete Quily (@pqpolitics.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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He shouldn't be living at Stornoway anymore either, so that's going to be another big controversy now - Canadian media are already pearl-clutching and trying to turn it into a flap against Carney somehow.
The whole tone here is how it's up to Carney to be the bigger person, because we really can't ever expect The Poilievre Man-Baby to do the right thing:
Paul Wells
Let him have it
Mark Carney should be too busy to play games with Pierre Poilievre
...Pierre Poilievre’s fate is the most ridiculous self-inflicted political injury in Canada right now. So don’t revel in it. Mark Carney doesn’t really have time for hobbies right now. Letting an adversary twist is a strange hobby... If Liberals don’t like petty score-settling, they should try behaving some other way.
... the route back to Parliament will be plenty humiliating for Poilievre anyway. Somewhere there’s an MP who just worked their behind off for the right to represent their neighbours in Parliament. Somewhere there’s an electorate that thought they knew who they were sending to Ottawa. Somewhere — a leafy Rockcliffe side street, in point of fact — there’s subsidized government housing of the sort the Conservative leader claims to disdain. If the only way for him to get back to Parliament is for other people to do him a stack of favours, nothing is gained by denying him the favours. The favours are the punishment.
What Wells doesn't seem to realize is that humiliation is in the eye of the beholder -- like Trump, Poilievre just doesn't see himself that way and never will.
Yeah, lets turn it into a Carney So Mean issue, so Rosemary & Vassy & the rest can clutch their pearls about it.
— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 ✍🏻😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@CathieCanada) May 1, 2025
God forbid that the Poilievre family would ever be expected to act with grace & dignity...
Rest easy, Mark Carney. Rather than present a coherent opposition or a responsible government in waiting, Conservatives are going to spend the next couple of years fighting amongst themselves. And the first shots will be fired by the leader’s office!
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) April 30, 2025
Meanwhile, Canadians know what is funny:Poilievre lost the seat count, lost the popular vote (unlike Scheer and O’Toole) and is diminished w/o a seat in the HOC. And polls of approval ratings showed he was a ballot drag on the party, esp. among women. So, yeah, I expect Liberals would love for him to stick around. https://t.co/iRk6FEjM36
— Glen E. McGregor (@glen_mcgregor) May 1, 2025
Someone told me that Pierre Poilievre wanted to attend the game tonight but couldn’t get a seat.
— Rob Hoadley (@robhoadley.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I have a disgraceful feeling of great satisfaction about Poilievre!
— Jaki Chantler (@jakichantler.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
So … Will there be a live stream of Poilievre moving out of Stornoway? Asking for a friend.
— nca2004.bsky.social (@nca2004.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Why should any MP who fought hard to win a seat have to give it up for Poilievre. He blew a 25 pt lead. Yes, Trump was suddenly a threat but no one thought, hey, Poilievre is our man to deal with Trump. All he did was make a lot of people hate Trudeau. That’s all he ever did.
— Beth (@qbee2024.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Paul Wells wants us to cut a Conservative some slack? Wow. That's unexpected. 🙄
Time for Pollievre to move on.
Over-dosing on schadenfreude atm, methinks 'we' should butt out of the CONs affairs.
1) If the CON party wants to 'keep the creep', let them. Their biz.
2) If the new HoC Leader of the Opposition wants to let him stay in gov't-paid housing let them. Their biz.
3) If a CON MP resigns the Libs should not call a timely by-election. Instead they should make him wait just as long as the Alberta UCP is delaying Neshi's by-election. And point that out: civility in politics goes both ways, and Smith is setting a terrible example and screwing the Libs natural allies.
NPoV
Sounds like an Alberta Con is giving up his seat. So we can look forward to more PP I guess.
So we're supposed to go out of our way to do nice things for Pierre Poilievre. Because, won't someone please think of the nasty vicious entitled brats?
You know Pierre wouldn't. If he was handed this same opportunity he'd make a point of having the RCMP grab his political opponent and frogmarch them out in front of as many cameras as possible. When asked about it at a press scrum, he'd take a question from Rebel News and use it as an opportunity to call the political opponent names.
Plus, he's apparently worth like 40 million bucks or something for mysterious reasons, so it's not like he's gonna starve in the street without Stornoway. So yeah, hell with him.
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