Date of publication: 02 Apr 2022 • 6 hours ago • 4 minutes reading • 65 Comments Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre exhales smoke from a hookah before explaining that “he is not going to force anyone to use a certain type of cryptocurrency”. Photo by Tahinis Mediterranean Cuisine / YouTube
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OTAWA – Nearly two months after Conservative leader Erin O’Toole resigned, the third race for the party leadership in less than five years is under way.
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But between the signing of a federal childcare agreement with Ontario, the Liberals’ latest environmental plan to reduce emissions and the ongoing war in Ukraine, some parts of the CPC tribe are not paying much attention. The National Post brings you four things that happened in the Conservative leadership race this week that you may have missed.
A “troll” entangled with Charest’s campaign with false donation promises
On Wednesday afternoon, Conservative member and former O’Toole executive Melanie Paradis posted a warning on Twitter: “CPC member data stolen.” In her posts, she described receiving an email from a leadership campaign thanking her for a $ 120… donation promise she never made. Eventually, a spokesman for Jean Charest’s campaign said someone had “trolled” his campaign using an old Conservative membership database to create hundreds of fake donations to other people on his site. They also used a fake site to hide their digital tracks, so the fake promises seemed to come from Ukraine.
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CPCPC member data stolen ⚠️
By now you all know how much I hate misinformation and fraud on the Internet.
Prepare for a very strange story involving at least one CPC leadership candidate, Kyiv, and hundreds of CPC members. 🧵 #cdnpoli #cpcldr # CPC… 1/14
– Melanie Paradis 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Melanie_Paradis) March 30, 2022
Charest spokesman Laurence Toth said they had no idea who was behind it, or how they obtained the data or whether they were ever allowed to have it, but the matter was referred to Conservative leadership officials for review.
“Someone with malicious intent came to our site and filled out forms with names, emails and phone numbers that are part of what we think is an old membership list,” Toth said. “There was no fraud, there was no conspiracy, the Russians are not trying to destabilize Canadian democracy. “He’s just someone who tried to troll us.”
Poilievre smokes hookah and talks about bitcoin
It was a week of cryptocurrencies for leadership optimist Pierre Poilievre, who promised to make Canada the “Blockchain capital of the world” and “unleash” the power of things like Bitcoin and Etherium if elected prime minister.
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As part of this announcement, Poilievre filmed a sedentary conversation with Ali Hamam, a Bitcoin proponent and owner of Tahini’s Mediterranean Cuisine in London, Ont. The resulting video was posted on YouTube entitled “Shisha and Bitcoin with Pierre Poilievre”. The video begins with a shoeless Poilievre sitting in an armchair near the Hammam and adorned with a Tahini T-shirt with a large Bitcoin logo, pulling a long hook from a hookah before launching an attack on Bank of Canada economists. “You have all these great experts, the so-called economists and central bankers, who claim that printing money does not cause inflation. “And I see this shawarma shop owner from London, Ontario saying no, of course it causes inflation,” says Poilievre.
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“I’m not going to force anyone to use a certain type of cryptocurrency and as prime minister, I’re just going to give you the freedom to choose. “If you think Bitcoin is the best tool to trade, as Ali decided, then you can do it.” “As long as you follow the same laws and pay the same taxes.”
Patrick Brown is campaigning in camera
While most leadership candidates publicize most of their rallies and invite as many potential Conservative members as possible, Patrick Brown opted for a more subtle strategy this week by hosting rallies first and then telling people about them.
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The first stop that caught the attention of journalists was an event in Montreal earlier this week that had not been announced in the media and to the general public. Only through a post-incident tweet did reporters know that Brown had forged his message against Quebec Bill 21 to members of the Tamil community. On Friday, Brown announced that he was in British Columbia, but did not publish any public events. Mr. announced in the media.
Two Sweets
On February 22, former Conservative MP David Sweet and six other lawmakers or senators in the party wrote an open letter urging former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Chares to run for the CCP leadership.
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“Canada needs you, Mr Charest,” the letter reads, demonstrating its “unwavering resilience”, “unifying leadership” and reputation as “second to none” in international trade relations. But Suite’s possible love for Charest was short-lived (he insists the letter never “supports” Quebec as CCP leader) because another candidate stole his heart shortly after: Ontario Independent MP Roman Bamber. Sweet was the first member of the Conservative parliamentary group to support Baber in leading the party and is now campaigning for the presidency. Sweet and Baber had previously hosted lockdown events against COVID-19 together in 2021, at about the same time as the MP announced that he would not be running for re-election. “I do not regret it,” Sweet told the National Post about the signing of the letter inviting Charest to run. “I think having good people of high caliber in the fight is what is needed. Roman was not in the fight at the time. “And when Roman called me and said he was planning to run for leadership… I just saw him as a great team player, a great community builder… and a courageous man,” Sweet added. “So I decided to support him.”
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