Conservative leadership race enters ‘horse-trading phase’ and candidates are making deals

Rival candidates’ and their strategists’ outreach to each other started after the membership-signup deadline of March 28.

It's almost show time: Conservative leadership candidates Maxime Bernier, Andrew Scheer, Erin O'Toole, Lisa Raitt and Andrew Saxton, pictured Nov. 14, 2016, at a leadership debate. Leadership candidates are reaching out to Conservative MPs to seek their second-, third- and subsequent-ballot support, says Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 17, 2017

With the Conservative leadership campaign in the home stretch, candidates and their top strategists are now reaching out to Parliamentarians, rival leadership candidates’ campaign officials and supporters, and building alliances for second-, third-, and subsequent-ballot support as none of the 14 ...

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