Author: Tasha Kheiriddin

Thank God, the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race is over. To paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, it was nasty, brutish and long, way too long for anyone’s mental health. Especially if you were volunteering on a campaign, and even more so if your candidate did not win. Which was my experience: despite valiant efforts, and...

“If we have one takeaway from the past eight months, it’s that a lot of Canadians are angry.” That’s one of the headlines used in an op-ed piece written by Tasha Kheiriddin about the power of Pierre Poilievre, the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Tasha was a Co-Chair for Jean Charest’s...

More moderate, “common sense Tories” (as Tasha Kheiriddin calls them in her new book, The Right Path) have told Poilievre he can’t become prime minister by playing footsie with the convoy crowd. Maybe. But to see Poilievre’s growth — both personally and as a campaigner — over the past many months is to see one...

Tasha Kheiriddin, a co-chair of Jean Charest’s leadership campaign, told The Hill Times that the campaign still had a path to victory. While Poilievre’s campaign said he has sold more than 300,000 new memberships—nearly half of the 678,708 members eligible to vote in the leadership election—having the most individual votes doesn’t necessarily guarantee his...

The Conservative Party of Canada’s 3rd leadership race in six years will be decided on September 10th. The winner of what has been, at times, a very nasty and corrosive contest will have to quickly pivot and focus on getting Conservatives united from coast to coast to challenge and defeat the Liberal government of...