This campaign has been getting odder by the day

The bottom line is that when you are literally one turkey dinner away from the vote, the last thing Andrew Scheer needs is public speculation about who will replace him when he loses.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured on Oct. 7, 2019, arriving at the English-language televised leaders debate in Gatineau, Que. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

October 14, 2019

OTTAWA—When a party starts public rumination about a new leader, it usually means it knows something the rest of us don’t. The Globe and Mail’s front-page story last week about Peter MacKay’s potential move to replace Andrew Scheer could not have come at a worse time. Canadians ...

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