Conservative MP Trost almost expelled from party over alleged membership leak, says campaign manager

Some members of the Conservative leadership election organizing committee 'don’t like' Brad Trost or social conservatives, says Trost campaign manager Joseph Ben-Ami.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer and Conservative MP Brad Trost, who came in fourth place on the first ballot. The Conservative Party has fined Mr. Trost's leadership campaign $50,000 for allegedly leaking a party membership list to the National Firearms Association. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

June 19, 2017

A key individual in Brad Trost’s leadership campaign says some “rogue elements” in the Conservative Party Leadership Election Organizing Committee “don’t like” the Saskatchewan MP or social conservatives, and considered throwing him out of the Conservative Party for allegedly leaking the...

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