Maxime Bernier’s explosive exit from Conservative Party has ‘no impact’ on Tory Halifax huddle, say MPs

The Beauce MP ‘threw a hand grenade to deliberately sabotage the party’s policy convention,' says Conservative MP Peter Kent.
Quebec MP Maxime Bernier announced in a Parliament Hill press conference that he is leaving the Conservative Party Thursday.
HALIFAX/PARLIAMENT HILL—Quebec MP Maxime Bernier announced in Ottawa on Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative Party, saying that he is in “politics to defend ideas, real conservative ideas.” But in Halifax, where thousands of Conservative Party members have gathered to debate those ide...

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