338Canada: Why Canada’s Conservatives are choking on diesel fumes – By Phillipe J. Fournier (Politico) / May 11, 2022
In a contest for the soul of the party, here’s why frontrunner Pierre Poilievre is playing to party voters who supported the convoy protest.
MONTREAL, Que. — Canada’s Conservatives often boast about the size of their tent, though its capacity is being tested by wildly differing viewpoints on the Freedom Convoy protest.
Questions about the trucker convoy took center stage last week when five of six leadership candidates met to debate in Ottawa — not far from where hundreds of trucks and thousands of protesters took neighborhoods around Parliament hostage in February.
The divide in opinion on the convoy, which could hardly be starker, may be on display again Wednesday when candidates gather in Edmonton for a rematch.
The debate is not just over leadership, but also about the soul of the party. Pierre Poilievre is leading a front-runner campaign with ideals that could wrest the Conservatives to the right.
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