If I’m Pierre Poilievre, I stop running against the mobilization. Attacking a wartime footing the public demanded is a losing argument. I start positioning as the owner of the peace: the person with a plan for what comes after, for the pay stub and the mortgage renewal. Attlee, not the anti-Churchill.

So is this article supposed to be fantasy, science fiction, or comedy?

PP tried to not be negative... for about a week. He cannot go longer than that without saying something negative. He's a debate club kid, whatever the topic is he is compelled to debate the other side. He is incapable of doing anything else.