Conservative Senator to challenge party brass over interim leadership selection rules

Conservative Party president John Walsh says in his letter that he will communicate to the 'newly elected House of Commons caucus' to select an interim leader, but Newfoundland Senator David Wells says it should be the 'Parliamentary caucus,' as stated in the party's constitution.

PARLIAMENT HILL—A Conservative Senator from the Atlantic region, where the Conservative Party won no House of Commons seats in the general election on Oct. 19 and lost the seats it had, is challenging party brass over a post-election edict that the Conservative Commons caucus wil...

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