The Issue:
We, the undersigned, are calling for the immediate resignation of Pierre Poilievre as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Not in six months. Not after a second or third by-election stunt in 2028. Now.
Over the past three years, Poilievre has run the CPC as if it were his own personal YouTube channel. What was once a serious political party focused on policy and governance has become something completely indistinguishable from the fringe right—the People’s Party of Canada with a better logo.
Poilievre's leadership has turned the party into a machine for outrage and trolling—platforming anti-vaxxers like Roman Baber (York Centre), individuals who fail to respect French Canadian culture like Rachel Thomas (Lethbridge), so-called “freedom convoy” truthers like Aaron Gunn (North Island—Powell River), and Christian Nationalist, culture war obsessives like Jamil Jivani (Bowmanville—Oshawa North). All of which have contributed nothing of meaning to the national conversation—instead seeking to spread their own ideologies, at our expense.
The fact that this guy made it 21 years as an MP without proposing a single tangible policy—let alone a bill with his name on it—is absolutely astonishing.
Not only did the CPC lose the popular vote for the first time since 2015, but Poilievre lost his own seat by over 4,000 votes. That would end any other leader's career. But Poilievre? He kept squatting in Stornoway, the taxpayer-funded mansion for the Leader of the Opposition, while strong-arming an MP who won their seat to step down so he could cosplay Albertan in a province he hasn't lived in for over 25 years.
What did this MP receive in exchange for his seat? A senate seat in a hypothetical Poilievre government, that new lobbying job that he got immediately after he resigned? Doesn't matter. What matters is that we, the taxpayers, had to foot the bill for this ridiculous song & dance routine.
If Justin Trudeau or Mark Carney ever pulled this kind of stunt, the right-wing establishment media would've turned it into a weeks-long scandal.
So now, let's talk about the CPC's “platform,” or the complete lack thereof. Apparently, Canadians are supposed to get excited about:
- Banning safe supply, because nothing says “serious governance” like cutting people off from life-saving resources.
- Attacking the consumer carbon tax that was already scrapped. (Fun fact: Poilievre never opposed it when he was a cabinet minister in the Harper government that created it)
- And of course, the most urgent political issue of our time: Jagmeet Singh's pension. (Because apparently that's why young Canadians cannot afford rent)
Poilievre does nothing but talk about kitchen table issues like it's still 1952, but Canadians aren't buying it. Not one reasonable working adult sits there and says, “You know what'd really fix this grocery bill? If we made sure trans women can't use the bathroom.” That person literally doesn't exist.
Focusing big parts of your platform on “transgender women are men” doesn't put gas in the tank. Telling protesters who disagree with you that they “don't belong in this country” not only doesn't lower food prices, it's deeply un-Canadian.
Even Jagmeet Singh, after everything, had the humility to step down with grace. Say what you want about his politics, but he bowed out with honour.
It's time for Pierre Poilievre to do the same.
The damage he has done to the Conservative Party, and to the trust Canadians have in their democratic institutions, will take years to undo. Canadians are exhausted. We deserve an opposition leader who actually takes the job seriously. We need adults in the room again. Canadians just sent a message with this most recent election: they're done with this.
We're asking the Conservative Party to cut its losses and cut Pierre Poilievre loose.
It's over. It's done. Pack up the Stornoway wine glasses and go.