The strategist behind Pierre Poilievre's campaign to be Canada’s next prime minister is a force and a cause for concern
OTTAWA — For most Conservatives in Canada, there is only one Jenni. A lifetime in politics and a resume packed with high-profile wins has rendered her surname superfluous.
Enemies consider Byrne a ruthless, no-holds-barred politico willing to turn on allies the moment she’s crossed. But she’s also a compassionate conservative — abandoning a campaign at a pivotal moment to fly across the country for the funeral of a colleague’s mother. Earlier this year, when POLITICO’s Ottawa Playbook asked Byrne who was behind the scenes on Poilievre’s campaign, she reduced herself to “adviser.” But everyone knows she’s running the show.
“There’s a lot of venom and vindictiveness that comes from her,” they said. “She made a lot of enemies and stepped over a lot of toes.” Ken Boessenkool, an architect of Harper campaign policy, watched Byrne develop in the former leader’s early war rooms.“We would develop a broad campaign narrative. She would be in the room for that, but that wasn’t her thing,” he tells POLITICO. “She would say things like, ‘That’s not going to work on the ground,’ which wasn’t her saying don’t do X or Y issue. She was just saying, ‘I need something I can use on the ground.
When it comes to politics, those same colleagues say she loves you or hates you — there’s no middle ground.
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