Canadian provincial leadership elections 2015

[Linus Van Pelt]

Are the Ontario PC's using a points system where each riding has equal weight?

[Linus Van Pelt]

So, this happened yesterday:



Yes, that is Narendra Modi, taking a detour from his official diplomatic schedule, to attend a campaign rally in Barrie, Ontario for a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario provincial PC party who is attempting to defeat the party establishment's candidate using suburban-Toronto BJP connections in a mass membership drive.

[Linus Van Pelt]

a) Flaherty/Elliott were/are socially liberal red Tories, so Elliott was going to be a non-starter with a large minority of the party.

Actually, Flaherty was more the right-populist standard-bearer in his runs for the leadership vs Eves and Tory--it's only Elliott that's positioned herself as a "mainstream" Davis heir.

I never heard that before. Interesting. Mea culpa.

Also, Flaherty took socially conservative positions on abortion and gay marriage.

Flaherty was raised as a Catholic, and after marriage joined the Anglican church where Elliott went, but he seems to have retained the basic Catholic position on these issues.

[Linus Van Pelt]

There's also the recent issue of Wynne's electric utility (Hydro One) privatization, which brings back memories of the fiasco of the failed Harris/Eves attempts to do the same.