Will Poilievre find the right thread to pull, or will his coalition unravel in 2026?

Pierre Poilievre knows how to fight, and he has built his own political coalition, but those are the very things that could prove his to be downfall as opposed to his salvation.

Ahead of Conservative Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, he has shown more pugnacity than the kind of reasonableness with which his opponent seems to be scoring well with the public, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

December 17, 2025

OTTAWA—It was one year ago that federal politics changed dramatically. Then-deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrote her poison pen letter to then-prime minister Justin Trudeau, stepped away from cabinet, didn’t deliver the planned fall economic...

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