“This didn’t just pop up this year in response to Trump and the tariffs. There is a fairly profound divide within the #Conservative movement.. …When things are going well, you don’t have people like [Jason] Kenney and [James] Moore coming out. So if this is about the fracturing starting to come, I feel bad for [#PiPiLeQ]; I don’t think there’s a way to stop it.”
— Lisa Young, a political science professor at the University of Calgary
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-manning-smith-fissure-conservative-movement-1.7502543
CBCFissure among Conservatives undermining Poilievre's pitch he's a national unifier: experts | CBC NewsLong-simmering tensions within the Conservative movement are bursting out into the federal election, experts say — undercutting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s efforts to present himself as a unifier who can take on U.S. President Donald Trump.