Patrick Brown has been disqualified from the federal Conservative leadership race, after ballots have already begun to be mailed out, and his campaign is fighting back against what it calls anonymous allegations.
If unverified membership numbers hold true, the path to becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is becoming precariously narrow for all but front-runner Pierre Poilievre, several strategists suggest, but the path is still there.
Two Ontario members of Parliament switched allegiances in the Conservative leadership race on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, as growing divisions prompted them to throw their support from Patrick Brown to Pierre Poilievre in the name of party unity.
Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest promised on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, to subject a national ban on so-called assault-style firearms to a classification review by a panel of experts.
Now that the second official debate of the race is out of the way, Conservative leadership hopefuls will turn their attention to signing up as many supporters as they can before a fast-approaching deadline.