Pierre Poilievre says that 2025 has been a “hell of a year.”

Sitting in the boardroom of Postmedia’s headquarters for a year-end interview, it’s an interesting reflection on how things have changed since last year’s interview.

In that chat, Poilievre boldly stated that he would defund CBC very quickly if he were elected. Of course, he wasn’t elected, none of the political predictions of a year ago came true, and now he’s giving interviews on CBC.

The Conservative Party is also in flux, two MPs have crossed the floor, another has announced his resignation and more may leave to other political ventures, or worse for Poilievre, join the Liberals and grant Mark Carney a majority. If that happens, Poilievre dismisses the idea that he would or should step down as party leader.

His view is that he should only be removed by members.

“It comes down to a very simple question, Brian, who runs the party? Backroom deal makers or the welders and waitresses and plumbers and police officers, the soldiers, the small businesspeople who are actually going to be delegates at the convention? They decide who the leader is, and they will decide when they vote,” Poilievre said.

It’s an interesting stance for him to take given that the leadership of the Conservative Party opened up for him in February of 2022 when a group of MPs decided........

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