Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the big challenges ahead for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

Carney and Poilievre faced off in the House of Commons on Monday for the first time , with a few niceties and some light sparring as Conservatives attempted to paint Carney as “just another Liberal.” Article content Article content

In August, Poilievre was elected in one of the safest Conservative ridings of the country, Battle River—Crowfoot, after one of his MPs, Damien Kurek, agreed to step down. The Conservatiuve leader was defeated in his Ottawa-area riding of Carleton in April and therefore could not sit as leader of the opposition during the short spring

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