Canada's main opposition Conservative Party on Saturday is set to wrap up their first in-person convention in five years in an upbeat mood, with polls showing a healthy lead over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals ahead of an election due by late 2025.
In his first address to a convention since winning the leadership a year ago, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre told about 2,500 party members late Friday that Canadians will have two options at the next election.
The Liberals only have a minority of seats in the House of Commons lower chamber and rely on support from the smaller left-of-center New Democrats to govern. The right-leaning Conservatives have lost three consecutive elections to Trudeau in 2015, 2019 and 2021. But a string of recent surveys indicate that if an election were held now, the Conservatives would take power.
The Liberals won the last two elections in part by accusing the Conservatives of holding extreme views on sensitive topics such as abortion, gun control and climate change.
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