Scheer, Lemieux, Chong score endorsements as advocacy groups release mock ballots

Get-out-the-vote efforts will target thousands of party members invested in abortion, supply management.

Several candidates in the Conservative leadership contest have won support from grassroots interest groups, including Pierre Lemieux, left, Andrew Scheer, centre, and Michael Chong. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 10, 2017

MP Andrew Scheer won a juicy endorsement from Quebec dairy producers last week, one of several candidates in the Conservative leadership race to gain momentum from third-party advocacy groups proclaiming their picks. Mr. Scheer (Regina-Qu'Appelle, Sask.) got the nod f...

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