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Tuesday March 8, 2022

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday March 8, 2022

Who’s in, who’s out, and who else might join the Conservative Party leadership race

With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Those running have until April 19 to throw their hat into the ring and until June 3 to sell memberships.

Here’s a look at the contest so far:

March 3, 2022

IN: Pierre Poilievre: The 42-year-old Ottawa-area MP and well-known Conservative declared his candidacy almost one month ago. He has begun fundraising and holding events. At one, he pledged to cancel the federal carbon tax.

May 24, 2012

CONSIDERING: Jean Charest: The former Quebec premier who led the federal Progressive Conservatives in the mid-1990s is considering a run. He recently held a reception for MPs and senators in Ottawa and met with more of them one-on-one. He says he wanted to see the rules of the race before making a final decision.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Dissension over Tim Hudak’s leadership comes to a swift end

In the end, judgment was brutal and swift.

After weeks of talk about dissension in the ranks of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives and questions about the suitability of Tim Hudak as the party’s leader, the challenge to him, such as it was, was washed away on Saturday by a sea of red placards. Delegates to a PC convention here in London voted overwhelmingly against a constitutional amendment that would have made it easier for party members to engineer a leadership review. If there were 900 delegates in the ballroom of the London Convention Centre, perhaps a dozen of them held up blue placards in favour of the motion. The rest were red, and when they were held aloft, it was the rare instance in which PCs cheered loudly for Liberal colours.

Party members were plainly annoyed at even having to discuss the issue that has put Mr. Hudak on the defensive since the PCs managed to win one of five Aug. 1 by-elections. One of the party members who put forward the amendment, Arne Brown from the London-Fanshawe riding, defended it as not a knock on Mr. Hudak in particular, but the correction of a process that does not allow dissenting voices to bring their concerns to the party executive or riding associations. (Source: National Post)