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We hired the guy with the best résumé. He’s now using power in ways few other prime ministers have dared. THE LUCKIEST fucking guy in Canadian politics.” That’s what former Quebec premier Jean Charest reportedly called Mark Carney on the eve of this year’s federal election. He wasn’t wrong. When Carney started kicking the Liberal Party’s tires in late 2024...
THE COUNTRY SITS on the edge of its seat, obsessed with the question: Wither Pierre Poilievre?
The first thing people ask me when I give a talk or an interview about my book “Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre” is what the title means. The answer is easy: at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece saying there are two kinds of politicians, “rippers” and “weavers.” Rippers are...
The following is a conversation between two journalists who have been covering Canadian federal politics up close for decades. Stephen Maher — author of The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau — spoke to Mark Bourrie on March 22 about his latest book, Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre, a thoughtful and unsparing examination of the life and career...
The “Canada Is Broken” candidate faces a changed national mood. RICHARD LIVES in a pup tent in downtown Ottawa, next to the Bank of Canada and about a block from the temporary home of the House of Commons. He’s a thin, tough man in his sixties. Or he could be in his fifties. When you’ve worked outside for years as...
Pierre Poilievre has better political instincts than the journalists and politics watchers who generate conventional wisdom. He understood Carleton’s past as a safe Tory seat and could do simple math. Door-to-door canvassing convinced Poilievre the seat was winnable – if Martin’s minority fell. The Liberals only held the seat because of the Reform–Progressive Conservative split. Now this was behind them...