I didn’t sleep the night that Pierre Poilievre won the Conservative leadership race. I couldn’t. 

And he didn’t just win. He really, really won. He crushed it. He secured victory in the first ballot. After a seven-month campaign, the long-time MP and former cabinet minister from Ontario won the election decisively, securing 22,993 of the just under 33,800 electoral points up for grabs. Poilievre secured support from coast-to-coast-to-coast, coming in as members’ first choice in almost every riding and selling hundreds of thousands of party memberships. He received 70.7 per cent of the total vo