Conservatives to hold national convention Jan. 29-31 in Calgary

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 1:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

The Conservative Party of Canada's adjacent nationalist normal volition beryllium held successful Calgary from Jan. 29 to 31, the enactment announced Friday. 

Stephen Barber, president of the party's nationalist council, said successful a connection that helium was "thrilled" to big Conservatives from crossed the state successful what helium said was "a dynamic, entrepreneurial and increasing metropolis that reflects this Conservative Party."

The enactment said Prime Minister Mark Carney is connected the "same destructive Liberal path" of overspending, over-taxing and over-regulating the lives of Canadians — and that the normal volition beryllium an accidental to code that. 

Conservatives crossed the state volition usage the normal to "identify areas of maturation and accidental to proceed the unthinkable momentum we've gained implicit the past fewer years," the enactment said successful a statement.

While Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre did negociate to summation his party's spot number connected predetermination night, boosting his caucus to 144 MPs, helium blew a 25-point pb successful the polls successful the months earlier the election, and mislaid his ain Ottawa riding of Carleton.

Despite that result, Poilievre announced helium would enactment connected arsenic leader.

When a Conservative person does not resign pursuing an predetermination loss, the party's constitution requires enactment members to ballot connected whether that person should support their occupation astatine the adjacent nationalist convention.

Having mislaid his spot to Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy, Poilievre indispensable triumph successful a byelection successful bid to re-enter the House and presume the relation of Opposition leader.

Poilievre remains person of the party, but erstwhile person Andrew Scheer is presently filling the relation of Opposition person successful the House.  

In May, Battle River-Crowfoot MP Damien Kurek said helium would measurement speech to let Poilievre to tally successful his Alberta riding, which is considered 1 of the safest Conservative seats successful the country.

Kurek archetypal won the spot of Battle River-Crowfoot successful 2019 and was re-elected this twelvemonth with astir 82 per cent of the vote.

Kurek officially resigned connected Tuesday, aft the mandatory waiting play pursuing the predetermination had passed.  

A byelection tin present beryllium called arsenic aboriginal arsenic this month, and indispensable beryllium called wrong 180 days.

While Carney could hold Poilievre's instrumentality to the House, the premier curate said following his predetermination triumph that he'd telephone the contention to bring the Conservative person backmost to the House swiftly.

"I volition guarantee that it happens arsenic soon arsenic possible. No games, nothing," helium said.