Conservative caucus to meet Tuesday as MPs press on after election loss

John Paul Tasker · CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 5:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The Conservative caucus volition stitchery connected Parliament Hill Tuesday for a post-election gathering to decide next steps aft losing Monday's vote, enactment sources told CBC News.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been engaged moving the phones successful the days since the predetermination arsenic helium tries to talk to each subordinate of caucus, and immoderate failed candidates, astir the effect portion besides pitching his continued leadership.

A root adjacent to Poilievre told CBC News that the Conservative person has had a lukewarm reception connected these calls and determination is simply a wide feeling that the person should enactment connected aft delivering mixed results — a higher, and adjacent historic, ballot stock for the enactment portion failing to depose the Liberals and losing his ain seat.

That's backed up by what immoderate caucus members person antecedently told CBC News — determination is enactment fatigue successful the enactment aft cycling done 4 leaders successful 10 years.

WATCH: N.S. Conservative MP wants Poilievre to stay leader: 

There is besides a wide feeling that Poilievre did good successful the predetermination contempt coming up abbreviated overall, due to the fact that helium punched done successful cardinal ridings successful the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario successful particular, caucus sources said.

Still, MPs volition determine Tuesday whether to follow Reform Act provisions that springiness caucus the powerfulness to clasp a enactment review.

If adopted, MPs could oust their person done a concealed ballot. It's the mechanics that was utilized successful the past Parliament to get escaped of Poilievre's predecessor, Erin O'Toole.

MPs indispensable besides determine connected an Official Opposition person present that Poilievre has mislaid his spot and cannot service successful the role. By law, the person indispensable beryllium a sitting MP.

A Conservative root told CBC News that the ballot to prime an Opposition person whitethorn not hap astatine Tuesday's meeting, however.

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It's not yet wide if Poilievre volition propulsion his enactment down a peculiar campaigner — oregon if it's adjacent indispensable to bash that arsenic determination whitethorn beryllium a statement pick, sources said.

Some names that person been floated by Conservative sources are lawman person Melissa Lantsman, House person and erstwhile enactment person Andrew Scheer and Michael Barrett, the party's morals critic.

Those 3 person been trusted Poilievre lieutenants passim his tenure. They person been fixed leeway to talk for the enactment publicly, including during the predetermination — a enactment duty fixed to fewer different MPs oregon candidates.

Lantsman, Scheer and Barrett all endorsed Poilievre's continued enactment successful societal media posts successful the hours aft the predetermination loss.