Canada will soon find out if the Conservative voters of Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot riding will knuckle under and elect Trumpy party carpetbagger Pierre Poilievre (who was tossed out of Parliament on April 28), or pick a maverick like Independent candidate Bonnie Critchley.
We cats have sharp ears, and we can hear the knuckling already.
Battle River-Crowfoot is a deep-blue riding (in Canada, the Conservatives are blue and the Liberals are red). Their usual Tory MP was re-elected in April with 80 percent of the vote. While plenty of constituents seem annoyed about Poilievre using them as a stepping-stone back to Ottawa, most political observers expect him to win.
But by how much? We're hoping for an embarrassing underperformance — say, in the low 60s. We'll settle for low 70s. Of course, if and when PP is back in Parliament, Mark Carney will routinely eat him for lunch. That will make us PURR.
(UPDATE, August 19: Welp, PP ended up matching the previous MP's winning margin of 80 percent. But can we really blame the voters of Battle River-Crowfoot? They must have known that whether Poilievre won or lost, they'd never see him again.)
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