More drama unfolding in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race. Hundreds of party members, who paid $50 each to attend, had waited for hours at a Markham convention centre to learn who their new leader was, only to be sent home after the vote was too close to call. Ford vowed to bring change.
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This was just another chapter in all the chaos that has surrounded this race.
Lawyer and former MP John Nunziata said his colleague, Radnoff, will argue the motion in court.
“Whoever ends up in, I didn’t get a chance to say who I would like”.
Apparently, there’s more bickering among the party’s candidates about the result.
Doug Ford greets the media after being named as the newly elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives.
Ford was declared the victor of the race Saturday night. Christine Elliott came in second, 153 points behind Ford on the final ballot.
She said this is the same party executive that created problems among a number of Tory nominations, including Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas that resulted in accusations of ballot stuffing.
“I’m anxious about Kathleen Wynne, not Christine Elliott”, he told CP24 while marching in the parade and waving to the crowd.
However, Ford said he is not meeting with Brown today.
“When conservatives are divided, tax-raisers and leftist parties always win”, Kenney said, poking fun at Justin Trudeau by saying he would refer to Ontario as the “gender-neutral older sibling” of Confederation rather than its older brother. Apparently one of the candidates has challenged the result.
“He’s disappointed that he can’t vote”, Radnoff said.
“We’re going to go down there and sanitize Queen’s Park – and it’s politically corrupt from top to bottom”, Ford thundered in Barrie.
CBC News reported earlier Saturday that Ford had indeed won the snap, six-week leadership race, but party officials decided not to announce any results until outstanding questions over some disputed ballots could be answered.
He says Ford could look to the party itself for an internal review, but that would need the party executive to agree.
The chair of the party’s leadership election organizing committee, Hartley Lefton, issued a statement saying he was “pleased” by the verdict and that it affirmed what they believed to be true about the race.
It started with the departure of the apparent frontrunner Patrick Brown, who withdrew amid unproven allegations of sexual misconduct.
Rob Ford died of cancer in 2016. And who knows if Crawley’s announcement offers the whole picture.
Polling leading up to the vote showed Elliott and Ford were neck-and-neck, but during the campaign pundits and commentators gave Elliott the upper hand.
As first disclosed by the Star earlier Friday, all four leadership campaigns rejected a proposal for personal identification numbers to be emailed to members earlier in the week.
Voter turnout was reportedly higher than in any other leadership contest in its history with 64,053 preferential ballots cast over the week-long voting period, though 71,450 total members were registered. “Thousands of members eligible to vote in the leadership contest have not received the letter”.
Doug Ford nonetheless sparked controversies with his contentious remarks, which once saw him threatened with a defamation lawsuit by the city’s then-police chief until he issued a public apology.
“The PC party is strong”.
He has frequently touted his experience in the business world as a key asset.
The injunction seeks a week’s extension to the voting deadline.
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Ford is well positioned to become the next premier of Ontario in an election planned for June 7.
