Omnibus: Conservative Leadership Race
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True enough, as far as snake-oil salesmen go. I have my doubts if he's even seriously engaged in the political stance he takes, other than to use it to fleece his followers.
Peter MacKay announces he won't seek Conservative leadership
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Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 20 hours ago • 1 minute read • 8 Comments
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Peter MacKay speaks during the English debate in Toronto, Thursday, June 18, 2020.
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Peter MacKay speaks during the English debate in Toronto, Thursday, June 18, 2020. PHOTO BY TIJANA MARTIN /The Canadian Press
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Peter MacKay says he will not seek the leadership of the Conservative party when one is chosen this September.
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MacKay announced the news in a video message posted to social media on Saturday, saying he came to the decision after consulting with friends, colleagues and family.
The cabinet minister in former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government placed second to former leader Erin O’Toole in 2020, and noted in the video that he’s still paying off debt from that contest.
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MacKay was also leader of the Progressive Conservatives when the party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
Four candidates are in the race so far — Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre, former 2020 leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis, Independent Ontario MPP Roman Barber and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.
MacKay says he will continue to support interim leader Candice Bergen and will also support the eventual winner of the leadership vote.
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Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 20 hours ago • 1 minute read • 8 Comments
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Peter MacKay speaks during the English debate in Toronto, Thursday, June 18, 2020.
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Peter MacKay speaks during the English debate in Toronto, Thursday, June 18, 2020. PHOTO BY TIJANA MARTIN /The Canadian Press
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Peter MacKay says he will not seek the leadership of the Conservative party when one is chosen this September.
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MacKay announced the news in a video message posted to social media on Saturday, saying he came to the decision after consulting with friends, colleagues and family.
The cabinet minister in former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government placed second to former leader Erin O’Toole in 2020, and noted in the video that he’s still paying off debt from that contest.
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MacKay was also leader of the Progressive Conservatives when the party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.
Four candidates are in the race so far — Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre, former 2020 leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis, Independent Ontario MPP Roman Barber and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.
MacKay says he will continue to support interim leader Candice Bergen and will also support the eventual winner of the leadership vote.
Peter MacKay announces he won't seek Conservative leadership
Peter MacKay says he will not seek the leadership of the Conservative party when one is chosen this September.
Patrick Brown running for Conservative leader
Author of the article:Canadian Press
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Laura Osman and Stephanie Taylor
Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 4 minute read • 36 Comments
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, with his wife Genevieve and son Theodore and daughter Savannah, officially announced that he will run for the federal Conservative leadership at a packed Brampton banquet hall on Sunday March 13, 2022.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, with his wife Genevieve and son Theodore and daughter Savannah, officially announced that he will run for the federal Conservative leadership at a packed Brampton banquet hall on Sunday March 13, 2022. PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND /Postmedia Network
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BRAMPTON, Ont. — Patrick Brown has officially joined the race to lead the federal Conservatives, with a promise to heal the fractures that have erupted in the party over recent years.
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Brown, 43, launched his campaign in Brampton, Ont., where he has served as mayor since 2018.
He walked on stage at the Queen’s Manor Event Centre with his wife, Genevieve, and their two children Sunday as the crowd chanted his name.
Brown’s speech pitched a campaign that offers a greater voice for caucus members and a bigger Conservative tent.
“I want people who have never voted Conservative, and voted for other parties to feel welcome in our family,” Brown told the crowd Sunday.
Brown, known within the party as a hardworking organizer, is the fifth candidate to enter the Conservative leadership race, already populated by former federal Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest and Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre. Rookie Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis and Independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber are also running.
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Brown’s political roots run deep in Brampton, and it’s a part of the country where Conservatives know they need to grow their support if they hope to form government.
He promised to do that without sacrificing seats in western or rural Canada, and suggested the party needs to stop treating Conservative members in the west “like an ATM and start delivering election victories.”
In his speech, Brown addressed the main concern raised about his candidacy by party membership: his support for carbon pricing during his time as leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario.
Many party members reject carbon pricing as an ineffective “tax,” including Poilievre, who has vowed to repeal the federal consumer carbon price and attacked Brown over his support of the policy.
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Just before Brown announced his leadership candidacy, Poilievre’s team launched an attack ad with the tag line “Patrick Brown will say and do anything,” pointing out his inconsistent position on environmental policy.
“Past attempts by conservative parties in Canada to address climate change, including one that I led, haven’t been done with consultation with our membership or caucus,” he said.
“Trust me from experience, I can definitely admit that is not the right approach.”
He said, if elected leader, the party would decide on its environmental policy collectively.
“I’m confident that together we can come up with a winning position, one that addresses climate change and respects provincial jurisdictions, energy security, energy sector workers, while keeping life affordable,” he said.
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Brown recently penned a letter asking Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to forgo a planned increase for April 1, citing the price of gas and other affordability issues.
Brown also made a pitch to rebuild trust with Canada’s “cultural communities,” a voter base who call the country’s largest cities and suburbs home and whose support Conservatives must win over if they hope to win the next election.
Brown’s speech touted his opposition to Quebec’s Bill 21, a controversial secularism law in that province that prohibits public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols on the job.
As Brampton’s mayor, Brown spearheaded a plan for cities to pledge money to help fund a legal challenge of the law.
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He also condemned the Conservatives’ promises for a barbaric cultural practices hotline and a niqab ban during the 2015 election as an attempt to stifle religious freedoms and normalize intolerance. Those policies were the reason Conservatives lost that race against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he said.
Brown’s turbulent political career has been defined by its ups and downs.
Born in Toronto, he was a young Tory who in 2000 was elected as a city councillor in Barrie, Ont. From there, he became an MP in former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s government.
Brown left federal politics after winning leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party in 2015, where he served as the province’s Opposition leader until 2018.
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Within months of an election — at a time when the Liberal government had spent more than a decade in power — in January 2018 CTV published allegations of sexual misconduct from two women against Brown.
The allegations have not been proven in court, nor have they been independently verified by The Canadian Press. Brown has long denied them.
But after initially promising to stay in the job, Brown resigned the next day and within weeks was kicked out of caucus.
He then ran for mayor of Brampton, Ont., and was elected in October 2018. He has remained in that role ever since.
Last week, Brown and CTV resolved a years-long defamation lawsuit he launched after the 2018 story.
In his speech Sunday, he offered the controversy as an example of his fighting spirit.
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“When the media tried to make me cancel culture’s latest victim by smearing me with false allegations I fought back and won,” he said, to cheers from the crowd.
A statement released by the broadcaster and Brown said CTV regrets some factual inaccuracies their original story contained. The statement did not specify what those inaccuracies were and a CTV spokesperson declined to elaborate.
The original article includes a correction that updates the age of one of two women who accused Brown of sexual misconduct.
The news network said no money exchanged hands in the settlement.
Conservatives will find out who their new leader is Sept. 10. Candidates have until June 3 to sign up new members and April 19 to declare they’re running.
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Laura Osman and Stephanie Taylor
Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 4 minute read • 36 Comments
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, with his wife Genevieve and son Theodore and daughter Savannah, officially announced that he will run for the federal Conservative leadership at a packed Brampton banquet hall on Sunday March 13, 2022.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, with his wife Genevieve and son Theodore and daughter Savannah, officially announced that he will run for the federal Conservative leadership at a packed Brampton banquet hall on Sunday March 13, 2022. PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND /Postmedia Network
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BRAMPTON, Ont. — Patrick Brown has officially joined the race to lead the federal Conservatives, with a promise to heal the fractures that have erupted in the party over recent years.
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Brown, 43, launched his campaign in Brampton, Ont., where he has served as mayor since 2018.
He walked on stage at the Queen’s Manor Event Centre with his wife, Genevieve, and their two children Sunday as the crowd chanted his name.
Brown’s speech pitched a campaign that offers a greater voice for caucus members and a bigger Conservative tent.
“I want people who have never voted Conservative, and voted for other parties to feel welcome in our family,” Brown told the crowd Sunday.
Brown, known within the party as a hardworking organizer, is the fifth candidate to enter the Conservative leadership race, already populated by former federal Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest and Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre. Rookie Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis and Independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber are also running.
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Brown’s political roots run deep in Brampton, and it’s a part of the country where Conservatives know they need to grow their support if they hope to form government.
He promised to do that without sacrificing seats in western or rural Canada, and suggested the party needs to stop treating Conservative members in the west “like an ATM and start delivering election victories.”
In his speech, Brown addressed the main concern raised about his candidacy by party membership: his support for carbon pricing during his time as leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario.
Many party members reject carbon pricing as an ineffective “tax,” including Poilievre, who has vowed to repeal the federal consumer carbon price and attacked Brown over his support of the policy.
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Just before Brown announced his leadership candidacy, Poilievre’s team launched an attack ad with the tag line “Patrick Brown will say and do anything,” pointing out his inconsistent position on environmental policy.
“Past attempts by conservative parties in Canada to address climate change, including one that I led, haven’t been done with consultation with our membership or caucus,” he said.
“Trust me from experience, I can definitely admit that is not the right approach.”
He said, if elected leader, the party would decide on its environmental policy collectively.
“I’m confident that together we can come up with a winning position, one that addresses climate change and respects provincial jurisdictions, energy security, energy sector workers, while keeping life affordable,” he said.
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Brown recently penned a letter asking Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to forgo a planned increase for April 1, citing the price of gas and other affordability issues.
Brown also made a pitch to rebuild trust with Canada’s “cultural communities,” a voter base who call the country’s largest cities and suburbs home and whose support Conservatives must win over if they hope to win the next election.
Brown’s speech touted his opposition to Quebec’s Bill 21, a controversial secularism law in that province that prohibits public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols on the job.
As Brampton’s mayor, Brown spearheaded a plan for cities to pledge money to help fund a legal challenge of the law.
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He also condemned the Conservatives’ promises for a barbaric cultural practices hotline and a niqab ban during the 2015 election as an attempt to stifle religious freedoms and normalize intolerance. Those policies were the reason Conservatives lost that race against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he said.
Brown’s turbulent political career has been defined by its ups and downs.
Born in Toronto, he was a young Tory who in 2000 was elected as a city councillor in Barrie, Ont. From there, he became an MP in former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s government.
Brown left federal politics after winning leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party in 2015, where he served as the province’s Opposition leader until 2018.
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Within months of an election — at a time when the Liberal government had spent more than a decade in power — in January 2018 CTV published allegations of sexual misconduct from two women against Brown.
The allegations have not been proven in court, nor have they been independently verified by The Canadian Press. Brown has long denied them.
But after initially promising to stay in the job, Brown resigned the next day and within weeks was kicked out of caucus.
He then ran for mayor of Brampton, Ont., and was elected in October 2018. He has remained in that role ever since.
Last week, Brown and CTV resolved a years-long defamation lawsuit he launched after the 2018 story.
In his speech Sunday, he offered the controversy as an example of his fighting spirit.
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“When the media tried to make me cancel culture’s latest victim by smearing me with false allegations I fought back and won,” he said, to cheers from the crowd.
A statement released by the broadcaster and Brown said CTV regrets some factual inaccuracies their original story contained. The statement did not specify what those inaccuracies were and a CTV spokesperson declined to elaborate.
The original article includes a correction that updates the age of one of two women who accused Brown of sexual misconduct.
The news network said no money exchanged hands in the settlement.
Conservatives will find out who their new leader is Sept. 10. Candidates have until June 3 to sign up new members and April 19 to declare they’re running.
Patrick Brown running for Conservative leader
BRAMPTON, Ont. — Patrick Brown has officially joined the race to lead the federal Conservatives, with a promise to heal the fractures that have erupted in the party…
Patrick Brown joins race to lead Conservative Party of Canada
Author of the article:Liz Braun
Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 49 Comments
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is pictured with his wife, Genevieve, and his children, Theodore and Savannah, on March 13, 2022. Brown announced he is running to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is pictured with his wife, Genevieve, and his children, Theodore and Savannah, on March 13, 2022. Brown announced he is running to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND /Toronto Sun
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Fighter. Leader. Winner: Patrick Brown wants you to know that’s who he is.
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As expected, the current Mayor of Brampton threw his hat into the ring and joined the race for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
In a wide-ranging speech Sunday morning, Brown, 43, made one point repeatedly, which is that he is the one candidate who could actually defeat Justin Trudeau to be elected Prime Minister of Canada.
The party deserves more, he said, than a leader who is an attack dog in opposition.
“Conservatives need a leader that can win,” Brown stated. “Candidates can make all the promises they like, but have to have the ability to be elected prime minister.”
Speaking in English and French, Brown addressed a wide variety of current issues, including inflation, gas prices, the situation in Ukraine, religious freedom, illegal guns, pandemic lockdowns, carbon tax increases and climate change.
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He offered individual shout-outs to various parts of the country, particularly the West, “who know liberals will never take their concerns seriously.”
He addressed concerns in British Columbia, Quebec and Atlantic Canada; eventually, Brown even included women in his speech.
“To win, Conservatives must inspire women with a vision of a better Canada for them,” he said, promising to address such barriers to equality as child care.
Brown’s speech was book-ended by photo ops with his young children.
He began his speech by stating that the births of his kids were key moments that changed everything for him. He called his wife his equal, stating that she has stood by him, “during trials no family should have to go through,” which one assumes is a reference to his scuffle with CTV and allegations of sexual misconduct.
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At any rate, Brown said no battle compares to the one we face now, adding that life was good as mayor of Brampton, and he might well have just continued.
“And kept my head down. But when I think about my responsibility to my children and each of you, I know I have to keep on fighting.”
A lawyer and a lifelong politician, Brown was 22 when he became city councillor in Barrie, a role he kept for about five years. He later was elected an MP under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Brown became leader of the Ontario PC party in 2015 and kept that role until 2018, when allegations of sexual misconduct prompted his resignation.
That year, CTV News published accusations from two women; about a month later, Brown filed a libel notice against the broadcaster and demanded a retraction, eventually suing for libel in April 2018. Earlier in March, Brown and CTV settled their legal dispute.
He resurfaced to run for Mayor of Brampton late in 2018. He was elected, becoming the 51st mayor of the city, and has been in the job ever since.
As the race for CPC leader heats up, Brown is still the only candidate who has been outspoken against Quebec’s Bill 21, which forbids the personal display of any religious symbols by some public sector workers.
Brown finished his speech Sunday by saying, “We need someone who can win, and that someone is me.”
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Liz Braun
Publishing date:Mar 13, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 49 Comments
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is pictured with his wife, Genevieve, and his children, Theodore and Savannah, on March 13, 2022. Brown announced he is running to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is pictured with his wife, Genevieve, and his children, Theodore and Savannah, on March 13, 2022. Brown announced he is running to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND /Toronto Sun
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Fighter. Leader. Winner: Patrick Brown wants you to know that’s who he is.
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As expected, the current Mayor of Brampton threw his hat into the ring and joined the race for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
In a wide-ranging speech Sunday morning, Brown, 43, made one point repeatedly, which is that he is the one candidate who could actually defeat Justin Trudeau to be elected Prime Minister of Canada.
The party deserves more, he said, than a leader who is an attack dog in opposition.
“Conservatives need a leader that can win,” Brown stated. “Candidates can make all the promises they like, but have to have the ability to be elected prime minister.”
Speaking in English and French, Brown addressed a wide variety of current issues, including inflation, gas prices, the situation in Ukraine, religious freedom, illegal guns, pandemic lockdowns, carbon tax increases and climate change.
Advertisement 3
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Article content
He offered individual shout-outs to various parts of the country, particularly the West, “who know liberals will never take their concerns seriously.”
He addressed concerns in British Columbia, Quebec and Atlantic Canada; eventually, Brown even included women in his speech.
“To win, Conservatives must inspire women with a vision of a better Canada for them,” he said, promising to address such barriers to equality as child care.
Brown’s speech was book-ended by photo ops with his young children.
He began his speech by stating that the births of his kids were key moments that changed everything for him. He called his wife his equal, stating that she has stood by him, “during trials no family should have to go through,” which one assumes is a reference to his scuffle with CTV and allegations of sexual misconduct.
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At any rate, Brown said no battle compares to the one we face now, adding that life was good as mayor of Brampton, and he might well have just continued.
“And kept my head down. But when I think about my responsibility to my children and each of you, I know I have to keep on fighting.”
A lawyer and a lifelong politician, Brown was 22 when he became city councillor in Barrie, a role he kept for about five years. He later was elected an MP under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Brown became leader of the Ontario PC party in 2015 and kept that role until 2018, when allegations of sexual misconduct prompted his resignation.
That year, CTV News published accusations from two women; about a month later, Brown filed a libel notice against the broadcaster and demanded a retraction, eventually suing for libel in April 2018. Earlier in March, Brown and CTV settled their legal dispute.
He resurfaced to run for Mayor of Brampton late in 2018. He was elected, becoming the 51st mayor of the city, and has been in the job ever since.
As the race for CPC leader heats up, Brown is still the only candidate who has been outspoken against Quebec’s Bill 21, which forbids the personal display of any religious symbols by some public sector workers.
Brown finished his speech Sunday by saying, “We need someone who can win, and that someone is me.”
Patrick Brown joins race to lead Conservative Party of Canada
Fighter. Leader. Winner: Patrick Brown wants you to know that’s who he is.
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Zooom right over your head ..
Everyone’s favourite is Pierre.. if they don’t vote him in as leader the CPC just cut their own throat..
I will vote CPC for Pierre or and anyone else is selected PPC
Just check Reddit 1000’s upon 1000’s of people feel the same.
Within the CPC, but do you think he can have an effect on federal numbers ? He is spurning moderates within the party which represents an overall step to the right for the CPC, how will that play to Canadian voters as a whole ? If you lump the Liberals and NDP together it says that as a country we lean to the left.
Both the liberals and the NDP spat on there base with the Emergencies Act , they will feel it at the polls .
On the contrary, the majority of Canadians supported the use of the EA. The occupation was increasingly viewed as the work of far right extremists, and that politicians in general were to blame for letting it get out of hand, the Liberals for not taking firmer measures sooner, and the CPC for encouraging what would ultimately become an illegal occupation.
Two-thirds of Canadians support use of Emergencies Act - National Post
Trudeau and his bunch still stepped way over bounds with this. I guess if the majority agrees with this, I feel sorry for what is to become of this country.