The party's 2025 election loss was not entirely Pierre Poilievre’s fault

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In Canadian politics, Pierre Poilievre should be — but actually isn’t — the biggest loser of the year.

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And, yes, 2025 saw the Conservative Leader blow a massive lead in the polls, lose an election that had been in the bag, and fritter away his own Ottawa-area seat.

By any objective standard, that should qualify Poilievre as the political loser of the year.

But the biggest losers — the ones who will continue to be losers after Poilievre is gone, which is a foregone conclusion — are those who make up the Conservative Party of Canada. They are the real losers.

The Conservatives’ 2025 election loss — to a man who had never held elected office before, to a party that had been mired in misconduct and misfires — was not entirely Pierre Poilievre’s fault. Because Poilievre is the current Conservative Party of Canada in human form: too angry, a bit paranoid, often Trumpian. They are him, and he is them.

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