In one of his inflammatory rants, the online journalist has said that he'll be there "with a big, fat smile" to film the moment when a Liberal MP would be shot by a "gun nut."
Michael Chong used the word “they” instead of “we” to refer to his own Conservative party and its “battle” with scientists while it was under the leadership of Stephen Harper.
The candidates crowded onto a stage in Edmonton to put their campaign policies on display and occasionally spar over popular themes like carbon pricing and the perils of a Justin Trudeau government.
It's clear that conservatives at the February 2017 Manning Centre conference in Ottawa were thinking about the political ramifications of the seismic political shift in the U.S. in recent months.
"If we are going to win the next election we need to have a credible position to reduce emissions," said Conservative MP and leadership candidate Michael Chong.
"Demagoguery is leading to cesspools of hate on social media, and it’s leading to a rise in hate crimes," says Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong.
All 13 Conservative leadership candidates crossed swords in a French−language debate Tuesday as they tried to cement their credentials ahead of the vote in May.
Stationed behind monogrammed podiums emblazoned with the party logo, the candidates began with a rapid-fire series of 30-second opening statements — many of them punctuated with mediocre French.