Disqualification of Patrick Brown from leadership race comes with more questions than answers

If the Conservative Party of Canada wants to maintain credibility with the Canadian electorate, it needs to be much more forthcoming with the evidence it claims to have that Patrick Brown engaged in wrongdoing.

Conservative leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre, right, has viciously attacked his recently disqualified opponent Patrick Brown, left, from the beginning of the race, questioning his ideological credentials and repeatedly calling him a liar.The Hill Times file photographs

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

July 11, 2022

HALIFAX—Long-time Conservative, Brian Mulroney loyalist, and former Senator Marjorie LeBreton is beginning to look like someone with extra-sensory perception. In recent weeks, LeBreton has fretted about the state of the Conservative Party she has served for so long. Cutting through to her bottom ...

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