Conservative Party wants its anointed candidate to win, and it’s not Patrick Brown

The establishment wasn’t going to see their party slip into the godless hands of some outsider from the PC side of the party.

Patrick Brown, pictured on CBCNN's Power & Politics on July 6, 2022. Anyone who thinks those divisions don’t exist hasn’t been on the front lines of a leadership race. The establishment delivered us Andrew Scheer, delivered us Erin O’Toole and is working furiously to deliver us Pierre Poilievre, writes Chisholm Pothier, who worked on Brown's campaign. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY CHISHOLM POTHIER

July 18, 2022

Well, it’s over. The Conservative Party of Canada was scared shitless their anointed one would not win, as it became clear Patrick Brown had sold huge numbers in urban centres across Canada, while Poilievre had piled up votes in Alberta and rural British Columbia. Combined, those two provinces do...

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