It’s still the Harper Party, a fact Poilievre is banking on

But here is the problem. Winning the party leadership is a sideshow, not the main event. And every time the CPC has reached back into the Harper era for a 'new' leader, it has lost at the box-office.

Conservative MP and leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre, pictured Feb. 14, 2022, in the Commons foyer. Poilievre is not without political insight. He knows that the shortest route to winning the leadership is to pass the Conservative purity test—in other words, to sanctify everything his former boss Stephen Harper ever did.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

April 18, 2022

HALIFAX—Despite fawning praise from the usual suspects, the only thing Pierre Poilievre has going for him is the political death wish of the hard Right. And that may very well be why he becomes the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Winning the political mud-wrestling contest of th...

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