{"id":293588,"date":"2025-04-29T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/pierre-poilievre-loses-his-seat-in-canadas-parliament\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:44:09","slug":"pierre-poilievre-loses-his-seat-in-canadas-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/pierre-poilievre-loses-his-seat-in-canadas-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Poilievre Loses His Seat in Canada\u2019s Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28canada-election-poilievre-seat-kvbh\/28canada-election-poilievre-seat-kvbh-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pierre Poilievre Loses His Seat in Canada\u2019s Parliament\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre Loses His Seat in Canada\u2019s Parliament\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, was unseated as the parliamentary representative of his Ottawa district in a stunning upset that could lead to a fight over his continued leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Poilievre was first elected in 2004 as the member of Parliament representing Carleton, a largely rural district bordering parts of the Ottawa River. His long-held Conservative seat was flipped to the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal candidate and a well-known community volunteer who was initially considered a long shot, won the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Poilievre embraced some of President Trump\u2019s positions, railing against \u201cradical woke ideology\u201d while pledging to defund Canada\u2019s national broadcaster and cut foreign aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Poilievre championed Canada\u2019s large oil and gas industry, Mr. Fanjoy <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brucefanjoy\/status\/1914792236245467394\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campaigned<\/a> on \u201cgrowing the green economy\u201d and \u201creal climate action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/change-carleton-riding-liberal\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recent opinion essay in the Ottawa Citizen,<\/a> he wrote, \u201cWe need to do more to fight climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Fanjoy incorporated common measures to reduce household emissions of greenhouse gases in his own family home in the Ottawa suburbs, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/2023\/08\/28\/news\/big-blue-house-runs-green-and-clean\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to an article about it in The National Observer<\/a>. The house was fitted with rooftop solar panels and an electric heat pump, so when the panels generate excess electricity in the summer, he can sell it back to the grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne of the challenges that we face in moving towards a more sustainable world is I think a lot of people think that we\u2019re going to lose benefits, it\u2019s not going to be as nice, we\u2019re gonna have to live in an austere environment,\u201d Mr. Fanjoy told the publication. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case at all. We just do things differently, but it\u2019s going to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/world\/canada\/pierre-poilievre-canada-election-loss-parliament.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, was unseated as the parliamentary representative of his Ottawa district in a stunning upset that could lead to a fight over his continued leadership of the party. Mr. Poilievre was first elected in 2004 as the member of Parliament representing Carleton, a largely rural district bordering parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28canada-election-poilievre-seat-kvbh\/28canada-election-poilievre-seat-kvbh-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87767,740,6379,165075,67,228322,137132,7343,3321,57271,127669,2158],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293590,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293588\/revisions\/293590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}