PATTISON’S POINT / OPINION

By Ian Pattison

ANY DAY NOW, some people are going to start feeling sorry for Pierre Poilievre. Let’s count the reasons why.

He blew the 20-point lead his Conservatives had in the April election campaign that centered around criticism of Justin Trudeau – until Trudeau quit, replaced by calm and competent Mark Carney who led the Liberals to victory. Poilievre lost the seat he’d held for two decades. Most people blamed his snarly attitude.

Poilievre then had to ask a nice Alberta cowboy MP to vacate his ultra-safe Conservative seat in order to make his way back to Parliament with a new breezy outlook and pasted-on smile curated by the party war room. That lasted about two weeks before his natural inclination returned. He seemed to carry a bad temper wherever he

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