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Conservative Finance Critic Pierre Poilievre, pictured on Aug. 26, 2019, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. If Conservatives choose the high-profile MP as their new leader in June—and it would be rash to rule out the possibility—it would be a victory for the worst kind of politics: divisive, negative and narrow, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

January 13, 2020

CHELSEA, QUE.—If Conservatives choose high-profile MP, Pierre Poilievre, as their new leader in June—and it would be rash to rule out the possibility— it would be a victory for the worst kind of politics: divisive, negative and narrow. Whether it would relegate the party to irrelevance is, at ...

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