Tories primed to attack ‘contradictions’ in Liberal policies

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is not Justin Trudeau.

He’s also not Pierre Poilievre.

But it’s the prime minister’s migration of Trudeau’s centre-left Liberal party to the political centre — and beyond — that delivers the Conservative leader his primary challenge as he enters a new parliamentary session, armed with a domestic agenda his party insists it was right to focus on all along.

“It’s a different dynamic. You have a minority Liberal government with effectively no coalition partner,” Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman told the Star in an interview.

“You’ll see strong opposition, but we’ll be talking about our own priorities and, frankly, the priorities of Canadians.”

Lantsman said her party doesn’t need internal or public opinion polling to know that those priorities are the issu