Fantino joins Deepak Obhrai Tory leadership campaign, to focus on minorities, immigrant communities

Two other former Toronto-area Conservative MPs also throw their support behind Calgary MP.

Then-associate defence minister Julian Fantino, left, playfully pulls his caucus colleague Deepak Obhrai's trademark scarf at a diplomatic reception at the home of the German ambassador at the time, Georg Witschel, right in 2012.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY TIM NAUMETZ

August 21, 2016

Calgary Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai has rounded up support from former veterans affairs minister and one-time Toronto police chief Julian Fantino, and two other former Toronto-area MPs who began life in Canada as immigrants, as Mr. Obhrai’s underdog campaign for the Conservative party leadership...

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