Federal Conservatives decided to stay the course Friday evening.
Pierre Poilievre will remain leader of the party for now, following a leadership review in Calgary.
Poilievre received votes from 87.4 per cent of the delegates at the party’s convention, more than enough to continue as leader.
The review was required after the Conservatives lost the federal election in April.
The loss came after the party lost a 20-point lead in the polls following Justin Trudeau’s resignation and the rise of political rookie Mark Carney.
Poilievre lost the Ottawa-area seat he’d held for two decades and had to run in a byelection in Alberta just to hold on to his post as leader of the official opposition.
In a statement on behalf of the Liberals, three MPs said the Conservatives made the wrong choice.
“Yesterday, Conservatives doubled down on Pierre Poilievre and the divisive, American-style politics Canadians rejected last spring,” the statement from Corey Hogan, Taleeb Noormohamed and Rachel Bendayan.
“In Pierre Poilievre’s 20 years as a politician, he has delivered little for Canadians but empty slogans, reckless stunts and pandering to the far-right.”
