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Should Poilievre win his expected majority in Parliament, he will have the run of the joint. Canadian Prime Ministers are famously—or infamously—powerful in such situations.
For months, Poilievre's Conservatives have enjoyed a large lead over the struggling Liberals in national surveys, suggesting they would win a majority government if an election were held today.
In that scenario, polls strongly suggest the right-of-center Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, would win a majority. Trudeau appears safe at least for about a couple of months.
The 2021 Canadian federal election, held on September 20, 2021, saw only minor changes from the preceding 2019 election. [1] The incumbent Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, did not win the popular vote and failed to win enough seats to gain a parliamentary majority, winning only a plurality of seats and retaining its status as a minority government.
Poilievre won the leadership election in a landslide, carrying 330 of 338 ridings with at least a plurality. In both points and vote, Poilievre won the largest share ever in a Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, eclipsing Stephen Harper, who won with 56% of points and 69% of the vote in 2004. Poilievre also eclipsed Harper's 2004 ...
Poilievre was born on June 3, 1979, [5] in Calgary, Alberta, to 16-year-old high school student Jacqueline Farrell, whose mother had recently died. [3] [6] [7] Farrell, who is of Irish-Canadian paternal descent, had planned to name him Jeff – a name he is still occasionally referred to by during adulthood – had she not placed him for adoption.
— Pierre Poilievre ... they stormed to a majority win with 184 seats and a 39.5 percent vote share. ... The Liberals lost their parliamentary majority in 2019, after a vote swing of -6.4 percent ...
Poilievre won the leadership election in a landslide, carrying 330 of 338 ridings with at least a plurality. The only other candidate to win a plurality in any ridings was Jean Charest , whose support mostly came from Quebec , though Poilievre still won 72 of the province's 78 ridings.