One the of Conservative leadership candidates was in Brandon on Sunday. Jean Charest greeted a number of people at the Royal Canadian Legion.
The former PC Party leader and three-time Quebec premier is up against 5 other candidates in the race.
Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire supports Charest saying he knows agriculture and understands the importance of developing pipelines and fiscal responsibility.
Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa MP Dan Mazier has thrown his support behind former Tory finance critic Pierre Poilievre as the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
The other candidates to replace Erin O’Toole are Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton, Ontario who is promoting religious freedom and making targeted promises to ethnic communities, Leslyn Lewis, the socially conservative rural Ontario MP, Scott Aitchison, the Ontario MP pledging to end supply management, and Roman Baber, the Independent Ontario MPP who was turfed from the Progressive Conservative caucus for his opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns.
The six candidates will square off in an English leadership debate on May 11th in Edmonton, moderated by former political journalist Tom Clark – and the Conservatives will announce their new leader on September 10th.
