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Conservative leadership race #1
March 29, 2012 - 11:31am
You read it here first.
Rex Murphy.
What race? Habemus Harper.
Fiat voluntas sua sicut in caelo et in terra.
Dulce et decorun est pro patria mori.
Don Cherry.
In November 2014, after eight years as Prime Minister and twelve years as party leader, lagging in the polls behind Tom Mulcair, Stephen Harper (then 55) announces his resignation as Conservative Party leader. The party decides to chose a new leader in April 2005, six months before the election due Oct. 19, 2015.
Who are the contenders?
Peter MacKay will be 49.
John Baird will be 45.
Tony Clement will be 53.
Jean Charest will be 56.
Jason Kenney will be 46.
Lisa Raitt will be 46.
Alison Redford will be 49.
Maxime Bernier will be 51.
Bernard Lord will be 49.
Christian Paradis will be 40.
James Moore will be 38.
Jim Prentice will be 58.
Who am I missing?
hope they picks Alison because next election cpc would completely lose! lol
My neighbour's dog might want to run. I'll wish him well.
Jim Prentice will come back.
mad max!
seriously surprising how young most of those folks are (relatively speaking).
I think it will be Jason Kenney vs. Jim Prentice.
Dean Del Mastro! bwahahahaha
Remember the Conservative Party has equality of ridings. Quebec Conservatives will have 78 votes for every 34 votes from Alberta.
That's just mean!
Out of the 12 listed so far (not including Del Mastro
), how many are bilingual now? How many have recently signed up for French language training?
Do the Cons really need a bilingual leader in order to win a phony majority, Wilf?
theres only 5 quebeckers conservative francophones, idk if outside quebec can speak french? Last cons leadership race was Tony Clement and Belinda Stronach, both speak French?
Oh yeah Andrew Scheer, he said he bilingual from Sask. the Speaker.
Maybe not; but with 23% of the votes in the leadership contest being cast in Quebec (not to mention francophone New Brunswickers like Bernard Lord, and franco-Ontarians), a unilingual candidate will be at a disadvantage.
Forget about Peter McKay going for the Conservative leadership again.
I suspect he will look to provincial politics after the provincial Conservatives are routed once again in next year's election, and the Tories quickly show Jamie Baille the door and start looking for a new leader.
Oh wait! Pierre Poutine of Separatist Street in Joliette, QC, he should be there on cpc next leader! hahahah
Just to toss it out there: Kevin Falcon will be 50 and probably recently retired. He's mused about not running again. If the BC Liberals fall apart in 2013, I could see him going to federal Conservatives rather than splash around in the swampy muck of the BC Conservative Party.
Anytime you hear of him taking his summer holidays in Chicoutimi, let us know. Otherwise, I'm sceptical.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Chong runs.
Let's raise the stakes...Rob Ford.
Who is working the membership? I would think that there will be a defiantly unilingual candidate of some measure, just because there is a constituency that will be attracted to that kind of candidate.
Mackay is the biggest contender..hence the extra cuts directed at his department,....who all loved the man....
Take Rob Ford. Please.
So, Parliament has resumed. Is anyone more bilingual after taking summer holidays in Chicoutimi?
No idea, but he's now on a more permanent sort of vacation :P
Perhaps some old Liberals like Manley or McKenna, or perhaps Mark Carney would be interested.
Steve Paikin: