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The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.
Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.
Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.
Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.
Absolutely… if it had been up to Harper (conservative PM for those who don’t know), we would have crashed irreparably during the housing market crash of 2008… Not only was he advocating deregulation of banks for a full decade before the debacle (trying to mimic the USA as always) but even months before the collapse he was still drumming the “I see no problem here” just to pivot to “I have never been more worried about the state of the Canadian economy” in the span of 3 months… and this is the “Economist PM” the cons sold us