High-profile Conservatives organizing to shift party to centre: activists

Leadership contenders were among a small group that met in Toronto in June, says one person who said he was there.

New Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer could have his work cut out for him as he attempts to unify a conservative movement in Canada that includes new third-party groups aiming to push messages on either end of the conservative ideological spectrum. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

August 16, 2017

A group of influential Canadian conservatives has been working over the summer to create an organization that will try to pull the Conservative Party closer to the political centre, say several sources with knowledge of the effort.

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