Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[MilEME09]

It's a relief when a bunch of privates go on a tasking to another country and don't make a fool of themselves. It's not a metric we (should) have to hold to our PM - but we all know about Trudeaus follies. Carney deserves the highest bar, not our previous lowest.

It's true some of us just want to see the world burn and we'll always find things to lament about in government. Others simply aren't impressed anymore by shaking hands and pinky promises.

Case and point was Carney's press conference in Japan, taking a moment to speak Japanese, from the heart speaks volumes more then PMJT playing Mr. Dress up on foreign trips.

 

[Remius]

I think the CPC had 30 pages in their policy book and 17 pictures of Poilievre. LPC had twice the pages with just one Carney picture.

It's funny. Poilievre gets attacked for not being personable and being too mean. Too drab. So he adds some family pictures and colour. Then he gets called out for having pictures. What a sucker.

Maybe if he had more to go with those pictures. But alas.

 

[MilEME09]

Maybe if he had more to go with those pictures. But alas.

it was also the fact that while doing that, the various CPC attack dogs started attacking Carney for not having his family in pictures, and then attacking his family directly. Which once again turned me further off from the CPC train

 

[Furniture]

That's true. But taken in context one also has to look at leadership approval by Canadians.

Poilievere came into the game against Trudeau with a substantial margin. By the end of 2024 the CPC polled 45% against the LPCs 20% and NDPs 20%. That was all anti-Trudeau sentiment.

Even when Carney took over, Poilievre's numbers at the time of the election were okay. At the end of April 2025, he polled 40.7% to Carney's 46.9%. Those are numbers that reflect the election results. Since then, however, Poilievre has been dropping in support to where, in March 2026, 56.9% of Canadians favour Carney and only 21.6% Poilievre. 66% of Canadians approve of the current government and 34% disapprove. If anything is being rejected by Canadians at this time it's Poilievre.

To keep touting the 2025 election result as a "rejection" of the LPC is clearly not where the country is as of today. Carney has shown himself as an effective leader who not only turned his own party around in the months before the election but who since then has built on strength to a majority approval. Poilievre in the meantime lost an election that was "in the bag," not to mention his own seat, and since then has steadily dropped in the polls. He's ineffective as an opposition leader, especially at a time where external factors are forcing a crisis at home.

Look. I've been voting PC and CPC since the 1970s right up to Harper and against JT. The current iteration of the CPC, however, has nothing for me anymore. I've never voted for JT or even Carney . . . But Carney and Carney's government are what this country needs at this time. They are, so far, pointing the country in the right direction. I'm part of that 66% majority that accepts the LPC government and rejects the current CPC. I don't doubt that there is still a mob inside the LPC that I disagree with. It will take time to see what carney can do with that and I, for one, am prepared to give him the time.

I'm not anti-Carney, I'm just pointing out the level of partisan silliness I see on here directed at Poilievre.

Poilievre delivered the best national numbers for the CPC since the 80s, despite the LPC taking essentially the entire CPC policy after parachuting in a celebrity(of sorts) leader after having very publicly pushed-out the leader that was disliked/despised. That's hardly a rejection of the CPC, even if Poilievre's own riding didn't re-elect him.

As for the falling numbers, it makes sense. The world is in turmoil, so people are clinging to what they know is working. That was also a factor in the LPC retaining a minority. There is also the reality that the CPC is too closely associated with Alberta separatism, which is not a failing of Poilievre's making.

Carney is so far an effective PM, and has reigned-in the crazies in the LPC. He is essentially a more bold, and slightly red tinted Harper. I'd be quite happy to see him continue as PM with a minority, so that he is forced to keep a lid on the LPC crazy. With a majority, he might be inclined to let the lunatics free again, to save his own neck from internal politics.