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After two years of Pierre Poilievre as their leader, many Conservative MPs say they are much less free now than they were before his arrival.
The man who promised during his leadership run to make Canada “the freest country in the world” maintains tight control over the actions of his caucus members.
Normally loquacious Conservatives close up like oysters and dare not speak without their leader’s approval. MPs are watched by Conservative staffers both inside and outside Parliament. Elected representatives are publicly called to order for deviating from the party line.
“Everybody is being watched. What we say, what we do, who we talk to. We’re told not to fraternize with MPs from the other parties. And that’s not normal,” a Conservative source said.
Can you imagine if Conservative MPs start revolting against lil PP and cause his popularity to sink the year before the election. I mean they’ll likely toe the party line given how popular they are right now. But if it did happen. It would be the funniest thing ever.
The thing is even if that happened, I’m still not sure whether Trudeau or Jagmeet would be able to beat him.
Probably not. I think best case scenario for Canada is Conservatives win a minority government. They’ll have to work with other parties to get stuff done. Of course, it will likely they’ll be working with the Bloc Quebecois but still.