Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Race Megathread-May 27th 2017

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Maybe O'Leary sees his internal polls and is actually too chicken to seek a seat in parliament.

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But the longer you stay in the race, the more campaign debts are incurred and the less able you are to support the leader. And since it's a preferential ballot, there is no reason to run to stop an undesirable candidate.

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https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/kevin-oleary-campaign-organizer-accused-of-vote-buying/article34345188/

CPC leadership race becomes a dumpster fire.

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I still think if Trudeau was truly Machiavellian, he'd go ahead with electoral reform and introduce proportional representation. That would encourage the break-up of the CPC into different factions and make the Liberals, who have been a big-tent party their entire existence, at least the senior party in any governing coalition (they could always throw their junior partner under the bus like what Cameron and Merkel did).

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Stay classy, Conservatives.

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That's a big surprise. At least Leitch is at laughable 7th place. And Lol @ O'Leary over performing three candidates.

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This is as exciting as Canadian politics will ever get.

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Trudeau is probably the second happiest person in Canada tonight. 

I think his happiness will be short-lived if the NDP elects Singh in October.

We're seeing in the US, UK, and France, that left-wing populism is taking hold among millennial voters. If the Trudeau Liberals are vulnerable, it will be to the NDP under a charismatic leader.

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We're seeing in the US, UK, and France, that left-wing populism is taking hold among millennial voters. If the Trudeau Liberals are vulnerable, it will be to the NDP under a charismatic leader.

Singh seems to be more of an Obama-type liberal than a left-wing firebrand though. 

He certainly has a different tone than Mulcair, who tried too hard to Blair-ize the party.