Poilievre loses third senior aide in under a year

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is losing his deputy chief of staff, Aaron Wudrick, who announced Thursday he is leaving for the private sector, effective Nov. 27. Wudrick, who served 2.5 years as director of policy and then deputy chief of staff, is the third senior aide to depart in under a year, following chief of staff Ian Todd and communications director Katy Merrifield. The exits come as Poilievre's party struggles in polls after Mark Carney's Liberal minority government win, with four Conservative MPs crossing the floor and a fifth appointed to the Senate.