Tim Powers: Conservatives warming up to political marathon

Tim Powers/The Hill Times: The Conservative leader—at least in the last weeks—has been logging those hard, patient miles across the United Kingdom, Germany, and multiple American states. While the mileage is significant, it was the apparent quality of that training that he hopes will deliver dividends. On those foreign outings, he acted carefully to position himself as part of Team Canada; he didn’t—at least in what has been reported—look to demarcate himself in a forceful way from Prime Minister Mark Carney. In fact, in his Joe Rogan Experience podcast performance, when not talking kettlebells and MMA, Poilievre even talked about a mutual respect he and the prime minister share…