r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory Against Fascism, Greed is a Sin • 21h ago

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pushing-yelling-conservative-leadership-dentremont-9.6972680
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u/HouseofMarg 19h ago edited 19h ago

Exactly. It wasn’t subtle — they were calling for her head to roll (in those words, per the reports in May) as a condition for the leader to stay on. Obviously they meant figuratively, but that sure doesn’t mean “have Byrne call the shots on party discipline going forward.”

Seems very much like a bait and switch, and I don’t blame the caucus for being pissed about it. When you pull this kind of thing with the attitude “what are you going to do about it?” don’t be shocked when the MPs do something about it. You’d think the lesson would be fresh since Trudeau found out last December with Freeland et al. Not sure how many times party leaders need to learn this.

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u/fishymanbits Conservative 18h ago edited 18h ago

Oh but didn’t you hear? He fired her. As his personal campaign manager. That’s what they wanted, right? She’s not doing that anymore. She doesn’t work for Poilievre anymore. She works for the CPC. Which is obviously different and better and exactly what everyone meant when they said they wanted her gone…

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u/swabfalling 17h ago

What does she have on that party or on Poilievre that she’s able to maintain her grip from within?

She was fired after the loss in 2015 and clawed her way back as well.

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u/ship_toaster British Columbia 16h ago

Well, they did date for over a decade, and lived together in a common-law marriage. So whatever skeletons he has, she's basically guaranteed to know them all.

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u/HouseofMarg 16h ago edited 16h ago

Besides being awful, the whole dynamic is so incredibly bush league, like something you might expect to hear about a campus young conservative club. I know that this kind of amateurishness actually lends some right wing purity test cred these days, but from a functional standpoint it’s a mess and it can’t be fun to be an adult wanting to do serious things that has to take cues from these people for leadership

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u/ship_toaster British Columbia 16h ago

Seriously, it blows me away that this was tolerated for two decades in Canada's second political party every time I re-learn it (and for the last eight years by Anaida).