Conservative MPs criticize Gilmore for floating Conservative Party shakeup, take aim at his marriage to Liberal minister

‘It doesn’t matter if I’m married to Fidel Castro or to Bill O’Reilly. What matters are the ideas and the reaction to those ideas,’ Scott Gilmore responds.

'I wrote a column, people reacted. I didn’t choose the timing,' says Maclean's columnist Scott Gilmore, who's touring the country to meet with conservatives who want to talk about a new direction for the party.Photograph courtesy of Scott Gilmore

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 12, 2017

A handful of Conservative MPs are challenging Maclean's columnist Scott Gilmore's cross-country discussion tour on the state of the Conservative Party, questioning Mr. Gilmore's motives and experience with the party. However, several well-known conservatives say Mr. Gilmore is right to wa...

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