Poilievre, King Charles III: A look at what the Liberal caucus will have to prepare for
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Many Liberals are clearly aware of that challenge, and responding to Poilievre's more bombastic style will be a key part of many discussions in St. Andrews, N.B., this week.
Federal Liberal MPs will descend on a coastal resort town in New Brunswick on Sunday for a planning session before Parliament returns from its summer break.
That return will be to a different House of Commons, and not only because it now has King Charles III as the head of state.
The Liberals will also now be looking across the aisle at a new face in the chair of what will be referred to as “His Majesty’s loyal opposition.”
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre decisively won his party’s leadership contest on Saturday evening and is expected to pose the biggest challenge to the Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the 2015 election brought them to power.
Privately, many Liberals are clearly aware of that challenge, and responding to Poilievre’s more bombastic style will be a key part of many discussions in St. Andrews, N.B., this week.
Despite murmurs throughout the leadership contest that a Poilievre victory would split his party, the Liberals in charge have privately said they are preparing to go to battle against a united, single Conservative party.
Publicly, however, some Liberals are celebrating Poilievre’s win. They’re characterizing him as more polarizing, more right-wing and more easy to paint into an extremist partisan corner than former Quebec Premier Jean Charest, who finished a distant second in the leadership race.
Kingston and The Islands MP Mark Gerretsen, one of the more hyper-partisan Liberal MPs on Twitter, posted an emoji of a smiley face after Poilievre’s win was announced. Gerretsen made the post from the road, where he was documenting a drive from his home to St. Andrews in his new electric car.
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