Michael Harris, The Tyee »

Here is the skinny. The Liberals got 26 more seats than the Conservatives, won the most votes in seven out of 10 provinces and, as Mark Carney noted in his first press conference after the election, captured the most votes in Canadian electoral history. Conservatives are hard pressed to denigrate that victory.

Maybe that’s why, since his election loss, Poilievre has been mostly silent.

But in the statement he gave on election night, which looked more like a victory lap than a concession speech, the leader in defeat made it perfectly clear that he intends to remain in the job. Ever the politician, he chose to deliver his remarks before it was publicly known that he had lost his own riding.