Now that Patrick Brown is no longer a Conservative Party leadership candidate, it's a pretty safe bet that many if not most of his supporters will simply not vote and Jean Charest's hopes for second-place votes go down the tubes along with his 'path to victory,' former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair writes in an exclusive opinion column for CTVNews.ca.
, whose chances of winning will go from slim to none if the Conservatives get away with it.
Harper has never tried to hide his dislike for Charest personally and politically. In the race that was ultimately won by Erin O’Toole, Charest had given serious thought to throwing his hat in the ring. He was so far along that path that he’d actually recorded political advertisements that became public.In the end, there was the small matter of Charest still being under investigation by Quebec’s anti-corruption police that made running impossible for him.
The parties, therefore, have to follow the principles of natural justice. Those state two main things: no one is allowed to be a judge in their own case and decision-makers have to hear both sides.Meet the five candidates vying to be the next Conservative leader“In this particular situation, the respondent has embarked on a process to select their leader.
The Conservatives plead that they tried to “bring him into compliance” with the rules of Elections Canada. If a party discovers an illegality in a process under the jurisdiction of Elections Canada, their job is to see that it’s investigated, not to “bring it into compliance,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. If federal law has really been broken it should be prosecuted, not swept under the rug.That leads inexorably to a question as to whether or not any law was actually broken.
The interim list confirms, this is a horse race. We’ve said all along this is about points. The winning number is 16,901 and our data confirms Jean Charest is well positioned to achieve that…Jean Charest has a path to victory.”That was the real target of these shenanigans, not Patrick Brown but Jean Charest. As has always been their habit, the Harperites knew what they wanted - a Poilievre win - and they were going to get it, by hook or by crook.
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