Former Conservative MP Jeneroux ‘couldn’t sit on the sidelines,’ crosses floor to join Liberals

The CPC is in a “damned If they do damned if they don’t” situationship with Pierre.

Despite what the hivemind on Reddit would lead you to believe he is still very popular within his own voting base. Not all conservatives like him, definitely not 87% like his leadership review would lead you to think, but he is still popular enough with conservative voters that he is the face of the CPC.

With that being said Pierre is his own worst enemy. Its almost as if he is allergic to adaptation. He was poised to have a slam dunk super majority and in less than three months blundered it because he couldn’t take a stand against Trump. In a time where Canadians rallied in unity he was still spouting that “Canada is broken”.

Pierre was basically conditioned to be the antithesis of Trudeau, and with Trudeau gone and Carney taking away one of his core pillars (axing the carbon tax) he was left diddling his thumbs and using the same playbook he did against Trudeau which just wasn’t effective whatsoever.

You would expect after his loss, plus the added humiliation of losing his own riding, that he would reflect on his leadership and make changes but if anything he just doubled down harder. When MP’s began crossing the floor it was “backroom deals” not “what can I change to prevent this from happening”. Pierre has shown time and time again his unwillingness to take accountability for his leadership practices and especially his own MPs, just look at Jamil Jivani.

The flip side of this is that if they do oust Pierre as leader they have no one even remotely poised to take over. Essentially they would have to rebuild the party from the ground up and it would for sure be another 3 years before another election. Despite Pierre’s deficiencies he still has kept a sizable conservative voter base, just not one sizable enough to win against carney.