Progressive Conservative Leader Will be Decided Today

“We’ve absolutely seen this movie before, whether it was Doug Ford or whether it was Christine Elliott or Tanya Granic Allen or Caroline Mulroney, they all were supporting a platform that would have taken billions of dollars out of public sector workers”.

“Even though they are virtually tied on riding points, Christine Elliott has a six-point lead in popular vote over Doug Ford”, Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, said in a release.

Elliott, who visited Sault Ste. “In a race this close, largely determined by geography, someone needs to stand up for these members”, Elliott said in her earlier statement.

February 16: Brown joins the leadership race with less than an hour to go before a registration deadline.

He agreed any challenge would be a distraction and make things hard for the party to move forward as a united caucus as it heads toward the provincial election. He was also present at Romano’s victory party during last June’s byelection.

Doug Ford met with Christine Elliott on Sunday, after he narrowly beat her out for leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party.

Ford’s political resume boasts a single term as a Toronto city councillor from 2010 to 2014. “Doug wins, Ontario loses”, he tweeted.

For the first time ever, the Ontario PC Party used an electronic ballot to elect their new leader, a process that involved receiving a verification code in the mail, uploading identification and then getting an email ballot. But there is little to back up Ford’s assurances that running the family business has prepared him for provincial politics, he said. “It’s going to be incentive, incentive, incentive and reduced taxes across the board”. He openly challenges the veracity of CTV’s reporting on its original story and points out discrepancies in the women’s accounts that he says prove their accusations are false.

Romano said he believes Ford is committed to making Northern Ontario stronger and assisting with its growth.

Elliott pitched herself to the Ontario PC faithful as the candidate who would best unite the party. His win was revealed by the party after a chaotic day that included members being sent home from the Markham convention hall as the party worked to resolve an issue regarding some key ballots. He said Ford had outworked the other candidates to attract the needed votes.

The Toronto Sun learned that behind the scenes, officials struggled specifically with a “coding issue” that made it hard to determine in exactly which ridings some electronic ballots were cast.

The leadership vote was just the latest twist in a campaign that began with chaos, when former leader Patrick Brown was forced out in January after a media report alleged sexual misconduct – a charge he denied. “His representatives at [the Leadership Election Organizing Committee] have sat silently in our meetings for days, never bringing up such issues”.

“The billions in cuts they are promising and the divisive social conservative policies they are championing will hurt Ontario’s economy and change our province for the worse”.