Pancake flops and a looming byelection: MPs dress the part at Stampede for ‘lobbying highlight of BBQ season’

As Mark Carney struggled at the griddle, Pierre Poilievre was busy pitching himself as an Albertan returned ‘home’ at the festival where Alberta Senator Daryl Fridhandler says everyone is ‘on the same level.’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, pictured with Conservative MP Dalwinder Gill, said that, if elected in a Aug. 18 byelection, he would fight for Alberta, adding that ‘the era of Ottawa telling Alberta to shut up and pay up must come to an end once and for all.’Photograph courtesy of X

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BY ELEANOR WAND

July 8, 2025

Parliamentarians are flocking to Calgary for the hot-ticket political event of the summer: the Calgary Stampede. But though they are decked out in cowboy hats, flipping pancakes and rubbing shoulders, MPs are also busy taking advantage of “a lobbying highlight of barbeque ...

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