In any other election, the kind of poll numbers Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are putting up would be cause for celebration. And their campaign so far has been perfectly executed, as Stuart Thomson and Tasha Kheiriddin from Postmedia’s Political Hack newsletter discuss with Brian Lilley this week. Meanwhile, Liberal Leader Mark Carney has stumbled and underwhelmed. But the dynamics of this race in the first week played entirely to the Liberals’ sole advantage and they’re dominating the polls. So far, Conservatives have mostly stuck to their main pre-Donald Trump message of affordability and change. On our election 2025 panel this week, Kheiriddin, Thomson and Lilley hash out whether Conservatives should pivot or stay focused, while waiting (and hoping) for a shift in voters’ thinking. (Recorded March 28, 2025.)
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