Values, sure, but why does Leitch get to decide what they are?
OTTAWA—Since when did Kellie Leitch get to decide what Canadian values are and which ones were important to ask immigrants about? To her credit, she claimed the territory as her own. After several weeks of vagueness, she outlined five values—just five—even though they have been changing over the weeks, perhaps with the degree of scrutiny. […]
Bernier gets endorsements from Alberta legislators
Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier last week announced some new support from the heart of Conservative country—Alberta. He announced endorsements from seven Wildrose Party Members of the Legislative Assembly, being Scott Cyr, Jason Nixon, Rick Strankman, Wes Taylor, Angela Pitt, Don MacIntyre, and Leela Aheer. He also snagged support from one Progressive Conservative MLA, Mike […]
Conservative MPs criticize Gilmore for floating Conservative Party shakeup, take aim at his marriage to Liberal minister
A handful of Conservative MPs are challenging Maclean’s columnist Scott Gilmore’s cross-country discussion tour on the state of the Conservative Party, questioning Mr. Gilmore’s motives and experience with the party. However, several well-known conservatives say Mr. Gilmore is right to warn that the rhetoric coming out of the party’s leadership race misses the mark for centrist […]
‘I hope he will stay,’ Bernier would consider O’Leary as Finance minister if he wins leadership and government
Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier won’t say if he’s willing to work within a Kevin O’Leary-controlled Conservative caucus, but he is open to making Mr. O’Leary his Finance minister. “I think Kevin O’Leary would be a good Finance minister,” Mr. Bernier (Beauce, Que.) said in an interview at The Hill Times’ office last week. “I […]
Conservative MP Tilson tells O’Leary ‘to his face’ he won’t vacate his House seat
Five-term Conservative MP David Tilson informed Conservative Party leadership front-runner Kevin O’Leary at a private meeting last week that he would not vacate his seat for him if the businessman and reality-TV star won the party’s top job next month in Toronto. In an interview with The Hill Times, Mr. Tilson (Dufferin-Caledon, Ont.)—who is supporting […]
Conservative leadership has dramatically set back party
TORONTO—Can you lose by winning? It’s not a riddle, it’s a fair question. Surveying the wreckage that now litters the Conservative landscape, it’s a timely question, too. Because, make no mistake: the Conservatives’ leadership race has dramatically set back their party, perhaps for years to come. Among other things, it has revealed the once-great Conservative […]
Conservative leadership results to indicate level of MPs’ influence in ridings, say Tory MPs
Conservative MPs who have endorsed any of the 14 leadership candidates are working aggressively to deliver their ridings to their preferred candidates in next month’s leadership vote because the riding-by-riding leadership election results will be seen as a measure of MPs’ influence in their ridings, say Conservative MPs. As well, if an MP’s chosen candidate […]
Byelections, filibusters, and other godsends in boring April
OTTAWA—Canadian politics is pretty damn boring right now. Call that an uncomfortable truth for a column writer as I sit here trying to pick a riveting subject to engage you the reader. How about something on those recent byelections? No. Can you spell lame? I always love those byelection stories and how the contests themselves […]
CPC membership debacle: Tamil Conservative Party members feel unjustly called out
Several Tamil Conservative Party members are urging the Conservative Party of Canada to continue its investigation into the disallowed memberships it discovered, and to ultimately release the names of those responsible. Roshan Nallaratnam, who ran for the Conservative Party in the 2015 federal election but lost to Liberal Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.), and Raj […]
‘This is balls to the wall,’ if he wins, O’Leary won’t commit to remaining Tory leader without a majority government
Polls indicate Kevin O’Leary has a good chance of becoming the next leader of the federal Conservative Party, but all bets are off on him sticking around if the party loses the next election or ends up with a minority government. “I’ve said to the caucus, I’m going to deliver a majority mandate or fire […]
