Tory leadership candidates courting supply management group for support

Scheer, Chong, and Blaney score photo-ops defending Quebec’s sacred cows.

Conservative MP Steven Blaney, left, is one of several candidates for the Conservative leadership to have paid a visit to dairy farmers associated with the Facebook group Les amis de la Gestion de L'offre et des Régions. He visited the home of Les Amis founder Jacques Roy, right, earlier this month. Photograph taken from the Les amis de la Gestion de L'offre et des Régions Facebook account

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 26, 2017

Multiple candidates in the Conservative leadership race have reached out for support from the organizers of a politically active Facebook group in Quebec created to defend supply management. Staff on the campaigns for Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu'Appelle, Sask.), Michael ...

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