Canadian Politics
How many memberships did Pierre Poilievre sell?
The second half of the Conservative Party leadership race is now underway. Midnight on June 4th represented the cut-off for new memberships sold for party…
Tag: Jean Charest
9 posts tagged "Jean Charest".
Canadian Politics
Conservatives recruit Dominique Vien
LaPresse’s Joël-Denis Bellevance received a tip (likely from an eager Conservative war-room) that the O’Toole Conservatives have recruited the former Quebec…
Columns
Charest should dig in, and then call election
Quebec politics are always interesting, and sometimes detestable. The past few months have proven this again to be true. Quebec students are marching in the…
Canadian Politics
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP
Seven Months, 131,000 members, 69,000 votes, 4 ballots, Thomas Mulcair: 57%. This past weekend in Toronto, the federal New Democrats elected the next leader of…
Canadian Politics
Poisson d’Avril Jean Charest
Jean Charest is the victim of an April Fool’s joke in Quebec this morning as tweets go flying about his reported resignation. Of course, the news isn’t true as…
CBC
CBC defeats Charest
I’d hate to be at the postmortem that is likely scheduled this morning at CBC. 8:52pm Click to enlarge 10:44pm Click to enlarge 11:25pm Click to enlarge…
Elections
Earthquake in Quebec
Mario Dumont is the big story in Quebec tonight. The right-of-centre populist leader of the ADQ came from five seats to 41. Dumont himself had predicted 12-15…
Elections
Thoughts about last night
The main story is that the Conservative Party is back in Quebec and in a big way. Both the Bloc and the Liberals suffered losses while the Tories beat some of…
Stephen Harper
CPC Policy Convention in Montreal Announced
Yesterday Stephen Harper announced that the Conservative Party of Canada will hold its first policy convention in Montreal in mid-March on the 17th through the…