Cory Morgan: With Poilievre’s Win, Counting on a Divided CPC No Longer a Winning Strategy for Liberals

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during the national Conservative caucus meeting in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2022. Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Leadership races can be dangerous affairs. They can be unifying party-building exercises that expand support across the country, or they can tear a party to shreds from the inside. The 2022 Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leadership race was of the beneficial kind of offering, not just a victory for Pierre Poilievre but for the party as a whole.