Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney Puts Poilievre Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Should Carney have promised to immediately call a byelection for Poilievre?

"I think that was a bit of a political mistake [for the] prime minister [to give] Pierre a sort of free pass to run in a byelection and saying he's going to call it at the earliest opportunity," said one Liberal MP, who asked not to be identified to share their concerns.

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney puts Poilievre between a rock and a hard place

The PM has craftily captured the middle ground from the Tories

Weekly Writ 6/26: Poilievre sets himself the easiest byelection test

Welcome to the Weekly Writ, a round-up of the latest federal and provincial polls, election news and political history that lands in your inbox every Thursday morning.Pierre Poilievre is planning to use the upcoming (yet to be called) byelection in the riding of Battle River–Crowfoot as his springboard back into the House of Commons.The result in this rural Alberta riding is a foregone conclusion — Damien Kurek, who resigned his seat so that Poi…

National Ballot: LPC 45, CPC 31, NDP 12 – Poilievre trails Carney by 29 points as preferred PM (Nanos) – Nanos Research

Liberals continue to pull ahead of the Conservative with the Carney government enjoying a 13-point advantage.  This compared to a ballot support toss up in the recent federal election.  Also of note, Poilievre, whose profile has diminished in the post election period now trails by a significant 29 points in terms of who Canadians would prefer as Prime Minister. -Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist The Weekly Nanos Tracking is produced by the Nanos R…