Conservative leadership hopefuls speak in Halifax

Five Conservative leadership hopefuls spoke at an event in Halifax today. Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole, Marilyn Gladu, Rudy Husny and Rick Peterson each laid out their vision for the future of the party to those in attendance.



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[Dozer]

Hopefully whoever wins runs on something other than just being opposed to liberals.

[briankerr]

Great job CBC, just so long as you keep your public funding & cushy jobs.

[abatos]

It doesn't really matter who wins the CPC leadership race, PPC and Wexit all the way!

[elp]

Conservatives need to run on defunding the CBC

[alohm]

Let them speak then? Why editorialize when you can show what they said: the magic of video.

[seanandernacht]

Mackay and O'Toole clearly don't understand how to systemically tackle climate change while lifting up the working class. They're just obsessed with Justin 😂

[mrsmith]

There's only to votes. You can vote for the UN and mass immigration or you can vote PPC for Canadians.

[honeybeewarrior]

Unifying Canada, TRUDEAU had got to go

[mujkocka]

No no no pipeline!. That alone I would not vote for him!

[FG-icpw]

no more conservative leadership please

[tomryan]

No Show: Rona 'Va-Va-Va-Voom' Poutine-Palin !

[paulchristensen]

LOL same old "we are not the problem" response to carbon emissions. So the lesson of the last election has not sunk in at all. With only vague platitudes as policy on the issue. Mckay has forgotten the elephant in the room regarding Quebec and the energy east pipeline. With Quebec flatly saying no to the project only the lawyers will see progress as the account balances rise steadily. Gotta do better than that folks if you wanna swing voters to the right that are not there already

[antiquesroadkill]

All Canadian assets should be divided into shares of stock among all Canadians and that individual income is then taxable. Canadian assets are the property of Canadian taxpayers, oil, wood, fish, and minerals, energy these are all bought and paid for by Canadians. Each asset should be broken into stock representing the overall population of Canada and issued to each citizen making it a vested interest of all Canadians to succeed. Like any income it still remains taxable. Acquisition and mergers would now be the democratic responsibility of the respective shareholders to determine. Opportunities would exist to buy foreign assets thereby extending our influence internationally. This is the most strategically responsible route for Canadians. Do we have the courage?

[旮旯北京]

I like to support the CCP (Canadian Communism Party) .

[davido.]

I wonder why people think harassing and making personal attacks on the Prime Minister, instead of focusing on actual issues that affect the party you're campaigning for, is qualification enough to become the head of the Conservative Government? It's like you're running for mayor but your entire campaign tactic is to start acting like a whining child who didn't get the last bowl of ice cream.