“But I don’t think we’re anywhere near that point,” Brown said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson. “I continue to believe that we can win this leadership. “I continue to believe that we can beat Pierre Poilievre and make sure we have the ability to beat Justin Trudeau in the next election.”
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The timing of the municipal election is inconvenient for Brown, who has served as mayor of Brampton since 2018 and continues to take on that role as he seeks Conservative leadership. The deadline to run for mayor of Brampton is mid-August, several weeks before the next Conservative federal leader is appointed. The story goes on under the ad The issue is widely discussed in Conservative circles, but has not yet become a major factor in the federal leadership race. Although both Brown and Poilievre served together in Ottawa during Stephen Harper’s time, the animosity between the two camps was evident from the start of the last Conservative leadership race. Brown accused Poilievre of using a “scorched earth” campaign to gain the party’s top spot and reiterated that he would not run in the federal election under MP Carleton. “The fact that he continues to attack my campaign with a scorched earth approach, I think speaks to the fact that he is not confident. “It does not leave the impression of a confident pioneer,” Brown said in an interview. Brown said he has other “highly regarded” candidates, including Jean Charest and Leslyn Lewis, and “would be happy” to run with any candidate in the next federal election. But he said he did not believe Poilievre was “eligible” in areas of the country where the Conservatives would have to win to form a government.
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One of Poilievre’s top advisers, Conservative General Jenni Byrne, has repeatedly accused Brown of lying, and the Poilievre campaign has launched a social media campaign that suggests the mayor of Brampton “would say and do everything.” . The story goes on under the ad The party’s deadline for registering eligible members for the September 10th leadership contest came and went earlier this month, and now campaigns are busy trying to attract existing members to support their leadership offers. Trending Stories
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In an interview with The West Block, Brown referred to some of the controversial foreign policy positions he has taken in his leadership quest. This includes supporting a no-fly zone over Ukraine, a position that Canada and its NATO allies have refused to take for fear of escalating the conflict with Russia. On Thursday, the party leadership took an unusual step to reassure leadership campaigns – and members – that the next leader would be announced on September 10 following an unprecedented increase in member sales. Although the Conservative Party itself will not confirm numbers, Poilievre’s campaign claimed that more than 311,000 members registered through the candidate’s website during the race, while Brown claims to have sold about 150,000 subscriptions. The Charest campaign assured their supporters that they had signed enough members to ensure they would have a “path” to victory, although they refused to disclose specific numbers. The campaigns of Leslyn Lewis, Scott Aitchison and Roman Baber have not released their own member sales cycle.
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The party has not yet confirmed the number of members who will be eligible to vote in the competition. This is largely because the party does not know – the various campaigns still have the ability to penetrate the membership lists and challenge any name they believe has been fraudulently added to the lists. The story goes on under the ad Global News reported in May that the party could reach 500,000 members – a record in modern Canadian politics and for the Conservative Party – but the party said on Thursday it was expecting “well over” 600,000 eligible voters. The party has vowed to receive a final list of eligible voters in the election campaign by July 29th. Despite the unprecedented number, party representatives said they would be ready to send ballot papers by mail to members in late July or early August before the September 10 announcement. “Due to the party’s recent experience in holding national leadership elections with the participation of hundreds of thousands of members, it has been able to escalate business to manage the growing number of members,” the party leadership wrote in a press release on Thursday. The 2022 contest was a particularly intense and personal campaign, even by the standards of the Conservatives’ recent leadership.
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Poilievre, the alleged leader, has accused former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest of being a liberal and Brown of being a liar. The Brown campaign has been met with personal attacks, with Charest repeatedly mocking Poilievre’s cryptocurrency and his commitment to fire Canada’s central bank chief. The last Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, was overthrown by deep divisions within the Conservative movement and the parliamentary group. The next Conservative leader will have to find a way to heal these fractures – and any news that has emerged during this leadership slump. The story goes on under the ad 1:37 CPC Leadership Race: Poilievre Faces Harder Than Expected Competition CPC Leadership Race: Poilievre Faces Harder Than Expected Competition – March 26, 2022 © 2022 Global News, part of Corus Entertainment Inc.
