OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Canadian Conservative Members of Parliament ousted their leader Erin O'Toole on Wednesday in a secret-ballot vote, according to local media reports. A total of 73 parliament members of the official opposition party voted to launch a new leadership race, with ...
He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Vaudreuil—Soulanges. He was re-elected in 1962 and defeated in the elections of 1957, 1963 and 1965. Birthplace: Quebec City, Canada Lewis Urry Dec. at...
The motion by the four Conservative Party and New Democratic Party (NDP) members would call as witnesses the prime minister's chief of staff, principal secretary, two senior advisors and current and former attorneys-general. Conservative and Official Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer said in a stateme...
Adopting an uber ‘woke’ position Pierre Poilievre wants to “defund” institutions to protect “feelings”. The Conservative Party leader recently repeated his threat to defund universities that fail to suppress criticism of Israel that make Jews “uncomfortable”. On Tuesday supremacist journalist Rho...
PC- 1. Short for "Progressive Conservative" a political party in some regions of Canada. 2. Sometimes referring to "President's Choice," the in-house brand of the Real Canadian Superstore supermarket chain. Peg, The- Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...
Notably, the campaign of 2017 Conservative Leadership candidate Kellie Leitch relied heavily on a populist discourse and policy agenda. Leitch's campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, as her rhetoric and policies were widely condemned among members of her own party and the Canadian public. My paper ...
That was hard to swallow when the NBTA and Blaine Higgs’ Progressive Conservative party inhabit such different political planets. The vast expanse between the union and the government was most clearly exposed in a parallel initiative, “Refocus on the classroom” and its website highlighting “...
The fact that Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri, a former journalist herself, is promising that Poilievre is going to “restore journalistic ethics and integrity” should be lighting up every single alarm around the country because that is a promise to politically interfere in the media and its inde...
Butts's resignation "does not in any way settle this matter. In fact, it presents even more questions that must be answered," said main opposition Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer in a statement. Wilson-Raybould raised the SNC-Lavalin case with Butts last December, and at that time ...
The departure of two of Trudeau's most powerful female cabinet ministers in less than a month "clearly demonstrates a government in total chaos, led by a disgraced prime minister consumed with scandal," Canadian Official Opposition and Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer said on Monday. ...