Would-be Conservative leaders wooing Quebec dairy farmers, but organizers say they won’t decide the race this time

With Maxime Bernier out of the party, dairy farmers don’t have a supply-management bogeyman to unite against this time.

It's on: Derek Sloan, Leslyn Lewis, Erin O'Toole and Peter MacKay are contesting the Conservative Party leadership election. The deadline for mail-in ballots that will decide the race is Aug. 21.Twitter photographs, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, and The Hill Times file photograph

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

August 10, 2020

The three leading candidates in the Conservative leadership race have all reached out to Quebec’s dairy farmers with promises to protect the supply management system, in a bid to win support from a group that may have swung the last contest in favour of now outgoing ...

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