Date of publication: Mar 27, 2022 • 5 hours ago • 5 minutes of reading • 292 comments Conservative candidates for the leadership on the top left: Leona Alleslev, Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber, Joseph Bourgault, Marc Dalton, Joel Etienne and Bobby Singh. Photo by Adrian Wyld / CP? Scott Aitchison Leadership Media Team through CP. Roman Baber via CP; Joseph Bourgault / Facebook; Jean Kilpatrick / CP; joeletienne.ca; bobbysingh.ca; Darren Calabrese / CP
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While all eyes were on the four main contenders for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership – Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis and Patrick Brown – many other candidates have thrown their hats in the ring in recent days and it is fair to say say that the fight is very crowded.
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Whether these new candidates are serious about becoming leaders or whether they just want to increase their public profile remains to be seen after April 19, the deadline to meet all the requirements. Here are some of the more recent Conservatives hoping to make the cut and see their name on the ballot on September 10th. Scott Aitson Scott Aitchison was mayor of Huntsville, OD, before being elected to Parry Sound-Muskoka in 2019. He now hopes to lead the Conservative Party of Canada as the unifying candidate who can unite his party and the Canadians. “Throughout my career I have created teams bringing people together to find consensus and work together to get things done. “This is the right approach I want to take to Ottawa so that Canadians have better government,” Aitchison told the National Post.
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“We need leadership in Ottawa that will focus on improving the lives of Canadians, rather than on the divisive politics we have been seeing for so long,” he said. Aitchison was confirmed as an “approved” candidate on Friday, meaning he submitted his first $ 50,000 deposit to the party and was interviewed by the leadership committee. He still has to submit another $ 150,000 and a $ 100,000 compliance deposit to be formally on the ballot. Roman Bamber Roman Baber, MP of the York Center, was ousted from the Ontario Progressive Conservative parliamentary group in early 2021 for criticizing Doug Ford’s quarantine measures and has since served as an independent. He will not run for re-election in Ontario this year.
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Instead, Baber will focus on becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada because of what he sees as “erosion of the Republic of Canada” after two years of restrictions and vaccine mandates for COVID-19, which are still federally valid. jurisdiction. “I’ve been talking about lockdowns when they were not popular since January 2021. And I’ve been talking about Canadian rights long before some of the other contestants took the same position,” Baber told National. Post earlier this week. If elected leader, he aims to unite the party as a “candidate for democracy” and believes he can bring back the Conservatives who have relocated to the Canadian People’s Party. Bamber is also an “approved” candidate, but he still has a few steps to go before he can be on the ballot.
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Joseph Bourgault Joseph Bourgault, a businessman from Saskatchewan County, raised an eyebrow when he announced he would run for office. However, he remains convinced that his business experience and ethical values will help him become the right person for the job. “I am an honest person who seeks the truth, with principles, financially and socially conservative candidate. So for me, the truth is my guide, if you will. “I believe in God and I believe that our Creator wants us to be men and women with honesty and integrity,” he said in an interview with the National Post. Bourgault is also president and co-founder of the Canadians for Truth, Freedom and Justice, an organization that claims the pandemic is being used by “governments controlled by globalizers to justify the so-called ‘great resurgence’ I MAY OPPOSE.”
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Mark Dalton Marc Dalton has been a Member of Parliament for Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge, BC, since 2019. Prior to that, he served as a Liberal MLA of BC and was a teacher. He has regularly advertised his experience in provincial and federal politics, as well as his French and Metis heritage. Speaking to the National Post, Dalton said he wanted to mend differences in the country after seeing the Liberals use a “political wedge” to “squeeze an election victory” in 2021. “Going to school, Canada was known to be a mosaic and at the moment it looks okay, well, we do not need this tile. We do not need this tile and this tile. No. That is enough. “I do not think we have the beauty of our nation,” he said in a recent interview. Dalton promised that if elected, his first mission would be to launch a national pandemic investigation into examining liberal ties, “coercive measures” taken to provide vaccination incentives, and “injuries and vaccine deaths “. .
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Bobby Singh “I am neither a politician nor a rock star.” But Bobby Singh, a once-failed Conservative candidate in 2019, intends to make at least one of these choices in an attempt to become a leader. Singh, who had announced his intention to compete in 2020 but did not qualify, is making his name once again. The self-proclaimed businessman and business professional posted a video and a website with a platform for his candidacy. “At this critical juncture in our history, let’s focus on providing public service and removing polarizing politicization to others as a renewed conservative movement that all Canadians of all political persuasions can identify with,” Singh told his video.
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Leona Alesslev Leona Alleslev is a former Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MP in Ontario. He was first elected Liberal in 2015, but crossed the floor in 2018 to join the Conservatives, citing the prime minister’s growing shift “to the left and away from the center.” He continued to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff under Andrew Scheer in late 2019, days before resigning. He continued to serve as interim leader until the election of Erin O’Toole in 2020. Alleslev eventually lost her seat in the 2021 election to the Liberals and has since largely been out of the limelight. However, she discreetly created a website for her leadership candidacy and was recently spotted collecting signatures at a social event in Ottawa, according to colleagues at the National Post.
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The former air force officer and corporate manager has not confirmed her offer for leadership. Joel Etienne Joel Etienne has also not officially confirmed his candidacy, but he also has a website and collects signatures for candidacy papers. Etienne was a failed Conservative candidate in the York Center equestrian race in the 2021 federal election. A lawyer with a background in human rights and commercial law, Etienne is known for defending a New Brunswick doctor who was accused of bringing a group of COVID-19 cases to the county after failing to isolate himself as required in the spring of 2020.
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