Top Conservatives Byrne, Patterson, Dodds, Gerstein, Lecce, Mulroney lose delegate election races for party policy convention

Campaign Life Coalition claims that its endorsed candidates’ performance played a key role in the defeat of the prominent Conservatives in the delegate elections.

Former PMO deputy chief of staff Jenni Byrne, left, Ontario PC Party president Brian Patterson, Conservative Fund chair and former senator Irving Gerstein, investment banker Mark Mulroney, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce, and Conservative Fund chair James Dodds, not pictured above, failed to win their spots as delegates in their respective ridings for the upcoming Conservative Party policy convention. The Hill Times photographs, Twitter and Facebook , The Hill Times file photographs and courtesy of Twitter

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BY ABBAS RANA

February 25, 2021

At least six prominent senior Conservatives—Jenni Byrne, former deputy chief of staff to former prime minister Stephen Harper; Brian Patterson, Ontario PC Party president; James Dodds, the chair of the powerful Conservative Fund Canada; Irving Gerstein, former chair of the fund; Ontario Education ...

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