Scheer wins Conservative leadership race: results by ballot
Place Candidate name Round 13 1 Andrew Scheer 50.95% 2 Maxime Bernier 49.05% Place Candidate name Round 12 1 Maxime Bernier 40.38% 2 Andrew Scheer 38.36% 3 Erin O’Toole 21.26% Place Candidate name Round 11 1 Maxime Bernier 36.57% 2 Andrew Scheer 30.28% 3 Erin O’Toole 18.85% 4 Brad Trost 14.3% […]
Conservative leadership frontrunners’ hospitality suites boast biggest crowds, run late into the night
TORONTO—Saturday morning was a slow start at the federal Conservative leadership convention, as many attendees recovered after hopping from party to party Friday night. Hospitality suites offered by candidates at the convention attracted many of the party’s big names. After candidates’ speeches went on for more than two hours, party members, candidates, and campaign teams […]
Conservative leadership convention projects ‘united’ front, but some attendees admit to nervousness, uncertainty in the ranks
TORONTO CONGRESS CENTRE—Members of the Conservative Party attending the leadership convention in Toronto say they are feeling “upbeat,” “excited,” and “nervous” as the outcome of this two-day gathering will set the future direction of the party, and play a large role in determining if the party will be able to unseat Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in […]
Bernier wants to scrap it, but poll suggests majority of Conservative voters back supply management
Libertarians, despair: a new poll shows support for Canada’s supply management system, even if Canadians are told it takes a toll on their pocket-books. Three of every four Canadians polled said they approved when asked to evaluate the agricultural system, described as follows: “Canada protects its dairy and poultry industries from foreign imports with tariffs […]
Conservative race dull, but new leader could capitalize—if they’re smart
TORONTO—Boring. Drab, dull, flat, insipid, uninspiring, monotonous, prosaic, tedious, interminable. The leadership race of the Conservative Party of Canada has been all these things, and so many more. If you consult your nearest thesaurus for things that are synonymous with “boring,” like I did, you will find no shortage of words that fit. You might even […]
New Conservative leader has their work cut out for them
It’s been a long year for those watching the Conservative leadership race unfold. After more than a decade of Stephen Harper working pragmatically to hold the party’s various factions together, the race laid bare the divisions: social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, Red Tories, libertarians, candidates who like to think of themselves as big-tent Conservatives, and others fond of […]
CPC leadership: Bernier’s to lose? Not quite, say insiders
Though Maxime Bernier is the apparent frontrunner in the Conservative leadership race, insiders say the voting system still means a Bernier win is not a foregone conclusion. While Michael Chong’s campaign and Chris Alexander say they see paths to victory for themselves, Deepak Obhrai’s campaign manager says she expects him to be dropped on the first […]
Take it from me: advice to the new Conservative leader
OTTAWA—Not even an oracle can properly predict what will happen during this weekend’s Conservative leadership event. Please stop calling it a “convention,” as it is not a political convention in the traditional sense. A computer program that cross-tabulates data will determine a winner, not people crossing the floor in some dramatic game-changing moment captured on […]
Political Insider’s Guide to Conservative Party Leadership Convention
BY THE NUMBERS: 13: the number of candidates running to become Conservative Party leader 11: the number of men in the running 2: the number of women in the running 4 p.m.: the time the cash bar will open on May 27 5: The number of official Conservative Party of Canada leadership debates, in Saskatoon, […]
Conservatives say leadership ‘wide open’ and ‘excited’ about party renewal, first leadership convention in 13 years
Conservative Party stalwarts say the 14-month leadership race—the party’s first in 13 years, which comes to an end in Toronto this weekend—has “renewed” the party and the new leader will have no difficulty keeping it united. “It’s exciting,” said John Reynolds, former Conservative MP and co-chairman of Maxime Bernier’s (Beauce, Que.) leadership campaign. “It’s good for […]
