New centrist party wants to ‘break a two-party duopoly,’ but that will require ‘exceptional circumstances,’ say observers

‘We're talking about a centre that is the point of the arrow,’ not ‘taking a sprinkle of Tory policies and a dash of Liberal ones, and mixing them into some sort of bland paste,’ says Dominic Cardy, interim leader of Canadian Future.

The Conservative base is happy with leader Pierre Poilievre, right, and the Liberal base is 'still there' despite rising time-for-a-change numbers facing the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, meaning the new centrist party Canadian Future will struggle to find political traction, says pollster Greg Lyle.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

September 22, 2023

The interim leader of a nascent centrist political party, says the group is “under no illusions” about the difficulty of the task ahead, but the party is ultimately “in it to win”—despite observers saying it would require “exceptional circumstances” for the par...

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