“If he [Poilievre] doesn’t make enormous, seismic changes in both his staff, his inner circle, and his approach, he won’t survive,” said a senior Conservative in an interview with The Hill Times. “If he can demonstrate the ability to engage and learn from what has happened, then he might.”
Conservatives said they were baffled by how the party squandered a 27-point lead in early January, only to suffer a more than two-point loss in last week’s election.
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Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay isn’t pointing the finger at Pierre Poilievre for the party’s loss in last week’s federal election, but he does think members of his team need to go and that the party itself needs “fine-tuning.”
