Its decision, released late Friday, contains new allegations Brown used money orders to purchase memberships and allowed non-compliant membership sales through a portal.
“Mr. Brown was afforded ample opportunity to address these serious concerns,” Ian Brodie, chair of the party’s leadership election organizing committee, said in a statement.
I no longer even vote CPC and was concerned this “progressive” might weasel his way to the leadership.
‘This will be Pierre Poilievre’s party’: Conservatives reckon with a new direction
The explosion in Conservative membership sales could significantly shake up the party’s grassroots as well as the long-standing power dynamics between various factions, multiple sources tell Global News.
The biggest beneficiary of that shake-up would likely be Pierre Poilievre, the purported frontrunner to lead the Conservative Party of Canada into the next general election.
OMG they’re resurrecting the Reform Party, someone check to see if Lucki has recently taken up smoking.
I believe the “panic” is entirely contrived by those who would wish the likes of Charest on the party.
Much as I get a kick out of Poilievre he’s not offering radical changes to existing policy, especially on such key issues as immigration.
So I don’t see what the fuss is about.
OTTAWA — The campaign for Pierre Poilievre, the perceived front-runner in the federal Conservative leadership race, announced Thursday he won’t take part in the party’s third debate planned for August, facing the consequence of a $50,000 fine.
WTF?
“… As for this new hokey team Centre Ice Conservatives, its advisory council chair is New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Education Minister Dominic Cardy, formerly provincial NDP leader. And yes, he’s a Jean Charest backer, which indicates where they both think the “centre” is.
Charest’s national co-chair is also on the “Charest Ice” advisory council, along with former senator Marjory LeBreton, who quit Pierre Poilievre’s riding association board because he supported the truckers’ convoy. Whose ideas were odd, but nothing like the limited-government agenda even of Ted Cruz, let alone Barry Goldwater or George Washington. I think the real issue was bad manners.”
You can’t make this crap up.
The Conservative leadership race is diminished by one.
Mathematically.
A couple of weeks ago, Patrick Brown was running to be prime minister of Canada. Now he has signed papers to run for re-election as mayor of Brampton, Ont. This is either a considerable downscaling of his ambitions or a return to a more moderate assessment of his capacity.
There is really nothing to fear in Poilievre, I find myself in agreement with Christy Clark – he will move or be managed to the mushy middle. Frankly he isn’t offering much different to begin with so I don’t know what all the fuss is about. A little red meat from time to time but nothing substantive like a reversal of our disastrous immigration policy.
Conservatives need to veer to moderate middle: Former B.C. premier
Pierre Poilievre is likely to pivot to the political centre if he wins the Conservative leadership this fall, says former British Columbia premier Christy Clark.
“I think that most politicians, when they finish their leadership race, change a little bit,” said Ms. Clark, who led the BC Liberal Party – a coalition of federal Conservatives and federal Liberals. “He’s a smart guy. I don’t think there’s any exception to that.”
“If Mr. Poilievre wins, he’s going to have a choice to make about how he wants to speak to Canadians about the things we share in common,” she said in a Wednesday interview with The Globe and Mail.
Centre Ice Conservatives says it wants to bring Conservatives on the centre or centre-right of the political spectrum together
The main organizers of a conference of moderate Conservatives meeting in Edmonton next month to discuss policy ideas say the initiative is harmless. Others aren’t so sure, and see it as an effort that could potentially undermine presumed frontrunner Pierre Poilievre’s leadership.
Centre Ice? More like Liberal Party 2.0.
Patrick Brown says the Conservative Party did not want a competitive leadership election and would have made up any story necessary to disqualify him from the race to succeed Erin O’Toole.
Since he was ousted from the leadership race earlier this month over alleged violations of campaign finance laws, Brown has repeatedly claimed his removal was due to corruption within the party and collusion with the campaign of leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre. Both the party and Poilievre’s campaign deny this.
“The party would have manufactured anything to disqualify me from the race,” Brown said on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Monday.
On Friday, the Conservative Party of Canada began the tedious process of verifying the largest number of ballots ever received in recent political history in choosing its new leader.
OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre may be the front-runner in the Conservative party’s leadership race. But when it comes to one of the main themes of this contest, there’s another contender who has walked ahead of him — and in one case, literally.
In mid-June, former Ontario MPP Roman Baber walked for 15 kilometres on the shoulder of an Ontario highway alongside James Topp, a leading figure of the anti-vaccination-mandate movement.
Topp’s cross-Canada march was set to culminate in Ottawa for Canada Day, amid fears his supporters would seek to occupy the capital in a manner similar to the so-called “Freedom Convoy” earlier this year.
A bit of relief from Poilievre coverage.
Many Albertans expect Pierre Poilievre to win the federal Conservative leadership on the first ballot
This week, I donned my embroidered cowboy shirt and Stetson to participate in the Calgary Stampede. I enjoy Stampede not so much for its fun activities but to be an eyewitness to the genuine Alberta community spirit. Stampede has a long tradition — 136 years since its first fair. Despite that heritage, Albertans are not tradition-bound: they are quite willing to change when change is needed.
Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre drew commanding support in a public opinion survey of Conservative Party of Canada voters, approaching 50 per cent of respondents selecting him as their top choice.
Poilievre was selected as the best to be the next Conservative leader by 48 per cent of respondents, compared to 14 per cent for the second most popular choice, Jean Charest, according to the Postmedia-Léger survey.
Patrick Brown campaign says if not him, then Charest best alternative for supporters
A spokesman for Patrick Brown says supporters on the front lines of the campaign believe that if their candidate is not reinstated, then Jean Charest is the best alternative.
Chisholm Pothier said Brown spoke on a call Monday evening to supporters, many of whom were “ground troops” in the campaign to elect him federal Conservative leader.
Brown was disqualified from the contest last week by party members on a committee overseeing the leadership race, but he is fighting for an appeal to the decision.
OTTAWA — The chair of the federal Conservative party’s leadership election organizing committee privately expressed concerns around Patrick Brown’s history while vetting him as a potential candidate, according to documentation obtained by The Canadian Press.
It suggests that Ian Brodie raised questions about Brown’s financial situation in a late-March telephone call with someone he was consulting as part of the vetting process after the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader had declared his intention to join the race.
OTTAWA — The Conservative party is bringing in outside lawyers to decide how to respond to appeals from Patrick Brown’s leadership campaign as they seek to have Brown’s disqualification from the race overturned.
Clad in cowboy hats and plaid, dozens of young conservatives gathered at an Irish pub in Calgary early Sunday afternoon, sipping water and draught beer while waiting for Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre to arrive.
Poilievre’s political roots trace back to this club — the University of Calgary’s conservative club. And much of his points of view (and even one current feud) echo back those 22 years.
“I don’t think you can understand Pierre Poilievre without understanding his background,” said Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt. “You have to look at growing up in Calgary, going to the University of Calgary, taking political science in the time period that he did.”
