Conservative leadership election process ‘disgraceful and undemocratic,’ says riding association president Perry

The Sarnia-Lambton Conservative electoral district association is lobbying all 338 EDAs to push the party to suspend the leadership convention retroactively to March 1, 2020, or cancel it and restart after the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Some Conservative Party grassroots members want the Leadership Election Organization Committee co-chaired by former deputy opposition leader Lisa Raitt, pictured, to retroactively suspend the leadership election campaign to March 1, 2020.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 13, 2020

An Ontario federal Conservative riding association is lobbying Conservative electoral district associations across Canada to push the national council, the highest governing body of the party, to either suspend the leadership contest retroactively to March 1, 2020, or cancel it altogether and restar...

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