Last time there were thousands of extra ballots, but they declared the results final and destroyed them all.
Maxime Bernier was 1000% correct, the party is wholly and utterly corrupt. They already banned 2 leadership candidates for wrongthink: 1, Jim Karahalios, won a court case saying they kicked him out of the leadership race improperly. The CPC immediately booted him out of the race again anyways.
I can tell you exactly what's going on right now with this delay. They thought the ranked ballot would work in MacKay's favour because even people who supported other candidates would mark the establishment frontrunner as one of their preferences. Instead, they've discovered that there is a substantial Anyone-But-MacKay movement amongst the party membership, because at least most of the grassroots are actually still conservative, and that a majority of the ballots have O'Toole, Lewis and Sloan in varying orders of preference without ranking MacKay at all. So now they're trying to figure out how to disqualify enough ballots to give him the leadership anyway.
One of the candidates, Leslyn Lewis, is an immigrant woman of colour and her campaign is historic- she's also a political outsider whose success was very unexpected. But a straight white cis male establishment politician like MMM'Kay gets more coverage than her and every other candidate combined.
Pretty based. Her 1st interview after entering the leadership was with Rebel News, explicitly to send a message she wasn't going to run away from them like the current conservative establishment.
She's an outspoken Christian & willing to speak about abortion which the establishment conservatives run from. She's anti-UN, pro-free speech & reducing foreign aid to focus at home.
And now the announcement of the result has been "delayed"due to issues counting the ballots. I smell a beaver-faced rat in the mix.
Last time there were thousands of extra ballots, but they declared the results final and destroyed them all.
Maxime Bernier was 1000% correct, the party is wholly and utterly corrupt. They already banned 2 leadership candidates for wrongthink: 1, Jim Karahalios, won a court case saying they kicked him out of the leadership race improperly. The CPC immediately booted him out of the race again anyways.
I can tell you exactly what's going on right now with this delay. They thought the ranked ballot would work in MacKay's favour because even people who supported other candidates would mark the establishment frontrunner as one of their preferences. Instead, they've discovered that there is a substantial Anyone-But-MacKay movement amongst the party membership, because at least most of the grassroots are actually still conservative, and that a majority of the ballots have O'Toole, Lewis and Sloan in varying orders of preference without ranking MacKay at all. So now they're trying to figure out how to disqualify enough ballots to give him the leadership anyway.
O'Toole won. Good.
I vote Bloc, but there is no reason to want spineless globalism from our neighbours.
One of the candidates, Leslyn Lewis, is an immigrant woman of colour and her campaign is historic- she's also a political outsider whose success was very unexpected. But a straight white cis male establishment politician like MMM'Kay gets more coverage than her and every other candidate combined.
Is she based or a progressive driving the speed limit?
Pretty based. Her 1st interview after entering the leadership was with Rebel News, explicitly to send a message she wasn't going to run away from them like the current conservative establishment.
She's an outspoken Christian & willing to speak about abortion which the establishment conservatives run from. She's anti-UN, pro-free speech & reducing foreign aid to focus at home.
You can read her platform here: https://www.leslynlewis.ca/policies
Anti-PC is the 3rd issue she discusses.
She wants to repeal gun laws too. Good enough for me, go Lewis! Make Canada Not China Again!
They're not the only ones: https://twitter.com/_adamswilson/status/1297287445587939329
CBC has comments blocked on their livestream: http://archive.is/0vhJc
So has Global(ist Fake) News: http://archive.is/wip/nAjL5
CTV, the largest private broadcaster, doesn't even have one.
Hilariously, so does the corrupt Conservative Party: http://archive.is/NZlAS