Convoy support could help Poilievre’s leadership bid, but populist support can cut both ways

Geoff Norquay, who backs Jean Charest, says the next federal Conservative leader will have to position the party in a more 'centrist, and less populist' direction if it hopes to form government.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, pictured Feb. 14, 2022, in the Commons foyer before Question Period. Andrew Enns, the Winnipeg-based executive vice-president of Léger, said the Conservative leadership contest is driven by selling memberships, and Poilievre could attract new voters for the party—and supporters for his bid to lead the party—by targeting 'the low-hanging membership fruit associated with the Freedom Convoy.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 10, 2022

He was first off the mark to declare his candidacy for the federal Conservative Party and has been polling well among Tory supporters, but Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre’s climb to the party’s pinnacle could face not only new challengers in the race—most notably from former federal Progressiv...

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