So long, Pierre

(Re: editorial ‘Tough road ahead for Poilievre and the Tories ,’ Dec. 13.) Shortly after Andrew Scheer lost out to a scandal-mired Justin Trudeau in the 2019 federal election, Scheer’s fellow Conservative Peter MacKay compared him to a hockey player on a breakaway unable to score even on an empty net. Notwithstanding a sometime 20-point lead in the polls, Pierre Poilievre, too, was unable to lock in a win for his Conservative team, losing even his MP status in his long-held Ottawa riding in the recent election. In our sport-obsessed culture with winners hailed and losers dismissed, Poilievre’s image as an inveterate ‘loser’ will be hard to shake. Once his January leadership review comes up, I suspect many of the party faithful will vote thumbs-down on Poilievre for faili

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