Brown said he ruled out running under the banner of the federal party if Poiliev took the top spot and his appeal could be to ask Brampton voters to return him to the mayor’s office. “If it looks like Pierre is going to win, I would rather go to the polls than be part of a Conservative election wreck,” Brown told CBC News. While he may be thinking about another term in municipal politics, Brown said he has not yet decided – there are still two months of campaigning left until the leadership decides. “At this point, we still believe we can gain that leadership, so we’re not looking at other options right now,” Brown said. If Brown decides to stay in municipal politics, he will have to submit his re-election papers by August 19 – weeks before the results of the Conservative leadership election in early September. Brown said he would decide whether to run for mayor before that deadline. “I will look at the numbers at the end of the summer,” he said. “It’s not something I’m going to look at until we find out what this leadership race looks like and we don’t even have the electoral roll yet.” Patrick Brown has said that if he loses the Conservative leadership race to Pierre Puliev, he will not run for the Conservative seat, but if one of the other candidates wins, he can win. (Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press, Alex Lupul / CBC) Brown’s thoughts on his future came as Conservative sources told CBC News that the party would publish a preliminary list of members for the campaigns on Thursday. By accessing a main list, campaigns will have a better sense of how many subscriptions have actually been sold by rival campaigns. Sources who spoke to CBC News on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about party issues said the campaigns would have only 96 hours to check the list and identify any irregularities, such as duplicate or questionable information. payment. at the party headquarters. The final voter list will be published sometime in late July. Preliminary membership sales figures released by the campaigns suggest Poilievre has a significant lead in the race, although the numbers have not yet been verified independently by the party. Poilievre’s team said earlier this month that they had sold more than 310,000 new subscriptions – an impressive number said his campaign showed the candidate could win the first ballot. Brown said he sold more than 150,000 subscriptions. Brown also said he would consider running for parliament if someone other than Puliyev wins. “If one of the five candidates has a way to win, I would go under any of the other candidates,” he said. “I will not be a candidate under Pierre. It would be an electoral disaster and he would lose the rest of the seats in urban Canada. The extreme approach would not sell in my backyard.”
Brown calls Poilievre “extreme”
Brown did not say exactly why he saw Poilievre undermining the Conservative vote in the Toronto area. The mayor had previously cited Poilievre’s support in the past for banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies and advising “barbaric cultural practices” as pre-election commitments in the high-vote district. Brown has always said that his path to victory will not simply require gaining the existing Conservative membership base, but bringing in new, different members. Brown campaign co-chairman John Reynolds said the team is confident it can win, even if the numbers look scary at this stage of the campaign. He said they were receiving calls from many members of the Conservatives, who were excluded from what he called Poilievre’s “extreme” approach to politics. “People in our party do not like people who call other liars – we get a lot from people,” Reynolds said in an interview. “People who have gone to his meetings say, ‘Anyone who wants to start playing with funny money, I do not want to be the leader of this party.’ He’s going to be killed by the Liberals, “said Reynolds, referring to Puliere. “I think they were also killed for announcing the dismissal of the head of the Bank of Canada – we get calls for that. I personally got people to call me and say, ‘I was going with Pierre, but I’re going with Patrick.’ “Someone who can beat the Liberals,” Reynolds said. Poilievre promised to fire Tiff Macklem, the central bank governor, accusing him of mismanaging the fight against inflation. This has provoked criticism from some who say it unfairly politicizes an institution that is inherently non-partisan.
Candidates for the Tory leadership want the membership list
It’s not just Brown’s campaign that wants to get its hands on the membership list to try to block Poilievre’s path. All campaigns want to call or email the estimated 600,000 Conservative leadership votes to try to get them on their side. “With the list, we can begin to see the real picture,” said Steve Outhouse, campaign director for MP Leslyn Lewis. Composite illustration with Conservative leadership candidates Pierre Poilievre, top left, Leslyn Lewis, center, Jean Charest, top right, Roman Baber, bottom left, Patrick Brown, center, and Scott Aitchison. (The Canadian Press) Outhouse said, given the limited data available now, there could be up to 750,000 members who can vote – which means it is no lock that Poilievre will take this race in the first ballot. There were already 140,000 active members before the start of the race, another 150,000 members were sold on the party website, Outhouse said, which, combined with the 150,000 subscriptions Brown claims to have sold and the 311,000 subscriptions the group has advertised of Poilievre, there could be over 700,000 voters trying to influence. Tasha Kheiriddin, former co-chair of the campaign of former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest, said that receiving the membership list would determine the parameters of the campaign from now on. “We know there has been a lot of talk about duplication, registrations, something like that. So, it would be good to do the final count,” Heyridin said. “Also, so that they can connect with all these members and, of course, challenge it. All campaigns will do that. They will look carefully at the list to make sure that everyone there is a legitimate supporter,” he said. he said. Conservative MP Scott Aitchison’s campaign manager Jamie Ellerton said his candidate would be on a summer tour and try to increase his digital commitment ahead of the September vote. It is also pushing for a third formal debate, which the party has not yet agreed to hold. “As party members have doubled, it is important to give members the opportunity to see candidates tested at the debate stage before voting,” he said.
