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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.
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.
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.
Poilievre is pro-choice on abortion, [90] and says a government led by him will not bring forward and will not pass laws to restrict abortion, but he will allow his party to have free votes on legislation. [157] Poilievre plans to repeal Bill C-11 and the successor to Bill C-36, describing them as censorship. [158] [159] [160]
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.
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Trendlines are 30-poll local regressions, with polls weighted by proximity in time and a logarithmic function of sample size. 95% confidence ribbons represent uncertainty about the trendlines, not the likelihood that actual election results would fall within the intervals.
[1] The remarkable similarity of the seat results and those in 2019 may have reinforced voters' sentiments that the early election was unnecessary, and its meagre outcome has left its mark on the electorate. Both the Liberals and Conservatives saw marginal declines in their national shares of the votes.