Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott to run for Ontario PC leadership

[mentalfloss]

Stick a pin on my moobs if old.

Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott to run for Ontario PC leadership

Caroline Mulroney, the daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, and former MPP Christine Elliott will run for the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership, CBC Toronto has learned.

Mulroney has a law degree from New York University and work experience on Wall Street. She has never held elected office and has only rarely faced the media, beyond this quick interview with CBCs Catherine Cullen at last year's federal Conservative leadership convention.

Elliott is the widow of the late Jim Flaherty, who served as finance minister in the Ontario government of Premier Mike Harris and federally under former prime minister Stephen Harper.

She is currently the province's medical patient ombudsman — a position she was appointed to by Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne — is a former deputy leader of the PCs and previously ran for the party's leadership twice.

She was first defeated by former PC leader Tim Hudak, and then again by Patrick Brown. Brown resigned as leader following allegations of sexual misconduct from two women.

Elliott and Mulroney join former Toronto councillor Doug Ford in the race, who announced his bid on Monday.

Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott to run for Ontario PC leadership - Toronto - CBC News

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Caroline's nose should run for Office on it's own.

 

[DaSleeper]

Me too...... Can't say no to a gal with dimples...:lol:

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I heard it costs $100,000 to enter the Leadership Race.

I wonder if Caroline's sugar daddy will show up with a brown paper bag.

 

[mentalfloss]

I'm voting for Doug Ford.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I think Caroline will win this race by a nose.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Either one of them is several planes of existence above Ford Nation and their Trumpawannabe leader.

I'm voting for Doug Ford.

See what I mean!

 

[spaminator]

 

[Danbones]

OH gawd, not a MULdynasty!

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Patrick Brown: "I'm happy to introduce everyone to Caroline...and I'm not wearing any pants!"

 

[Curious Cdn]

OH gawd, not a MULdynasty!

It goes hand-in-hand with the Trudynasty. It will help to keep the universe in balance.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Both the Mulroney name and the Ford name have baggage associated with it. Perhaps Elliot will scoot up the middle and win by default.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Both the Mulroney name and the Ford name have baggage associated with it. Perhaps Elliot will scoot up the middle and win by default.

The Mulroney name has less baggage associated with it than the Trudeau name has. I will never as long as I live, cast a vote for a party led by someone named Trudeau (and I'm a middling moderate!) I experienced the first Trudeau period from beginning to end and just about the only politician that I've seen in my live that I loathe more than Trump is/was Pierre Trudeau ... and I know quite well that I'm not alone. Muldoon had his definite weak points but the trade deal that made us rich, the one that we are so afraid that the Yanks are going to pull the plug on, was his creation.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

It all went South in the mid 90's...

Before that, companies had an unwritten contract with their employees. You work for me for your career, and I'll take care of you and your family.

Then it all changed. The bottom line and pleasing shareholders became everything. Companies began making cutbacks on salary, benefits, working conditions... etc.

Workers have been taking it up the wazoo now for over 2 decades. Trump was elected mainly because he put his finger on that pulse, and promised to MAGA. So far, I'd say he's on track. It takes time, though. Rome wasn't built in a day

 

[Curious Cdn]

It all went South in the mid 90's...

Before that, companies had an unwritten contract with their employees. You work for me for your career, and I'll take care of you and your family.

Then it all changed. The bottom line and pleasing shareholders became everything. Companies began making cutbacks on salary, benefits, working conditions... etc.

Workers have been taking it up the wazoo now for over 2 decades. Trump was elected mainly because he put his finger on that pulse, and promised to MAGA. So far, I'd say he's on track. It takes time, though. Rome wasn't built in a day

That happened all over the Western World, mostly in response to some really lean, mean competition from Asia.

Did Mulroney do that?

 

[Hoof Hearted]

Yes. NAFTA was the catalyst.

 

[WLDB]

I don’t know enough about Mulroney but Elliott seems like a decent choice.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

It would make an interesting race ... all 3 leaders women. Probably a first.

 

[Hoid]

The Mulroney name has less baggage associated with it than the Trudeau name has.

PET is far and away more popular than Mulroney ever was.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Yes. NAFTA was the catalyst.

Rubbish. Total bullshit. You're also decades too late. The "Catalyst" was that by the seventies, early eighties, the monopoly on economic success that the undamaged victors of WWII enjoyed (i.e.North America) was over and lean, efficient, rebuilt from scratch powerhouses like Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea (a bit later) were just plain better at doing things than we were and the real value of labour here plummeted so that we could remain competitive in the game. The fat, sassy American Fifties were replaced by a real global economy whereby American, Canadian workers now had to compete head-to-head with itinerant labour in Mexico, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam. NAFTA has a peripheral role in it. We live in a far bigger ocean than that.

PET is far and away more popular than Mulroney ever was.

Maybe in your household.

It would make an interesting race ... all 3 leaders women. Probably a first.

I think that it,'s great, myself.