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The PC Party executive decides to hold a full-scale leadership election before the next provincial election and sets the date of the leadership election. [ 10 ] [ 2 ] January 28, 2018: Party president Rick Dykstra resigns shortly before Maclean's magazine publishes a story about him allegedly sexually assaulting an employee during his time as a ...
John Tory, leader (2004–2009) Ontario PC logo, 2006–2010. In early 2004, Eves announced his intention to step down as leader. A leadership convention to replace him was called for the fall. Jim Flaherty was the first to enter the race, campaigning on the same right wing platform as in 2002.
The party's 76,587 members [1] were eligible to cast votes by preferential ballot.The vote will be weighted so that each of the province's 107 ridings that has more than 100 votes cast are allocated 100 electoral votes; [2] ridings in which fewer than 100 party members vote will not be weighted, but will instead have the votes counted as individual votes. [3]
The past four leadership contests had been won by those who sold the most memberships. [35] Brown was endorsed by the Campaign Life Coalition and the Ontario Landowners Association. [36] [37] During Brown's leadership bid both special interest groups actively supported him by selling Ontario PC Party memberships amongst their members. [38] [39]
A New York Times article from 1984 argued that Mulroney was elected from "the right-wing elements" within the party. [28] Tasha Kheiriddin , writing in La Presse , argued that "Brian Mulroney's injuries to Joe Clark in 1983 took more than 15 years to heal, as various factions continued to compete for leadership roles in the field and youth wings."
The initiative added 378 new parks and protected areas, bringing the total in Ontario to 650 and increasing Ontario's protected areas to more than 95,000 square kilometres (37,000 sq mi). Controversy arose in 2000 when the town water supply of Walkerton became infected by E. coli .
A graduate of Harvard University and New York University, she was the elected MPP for the riding of York—Simcoe in the 2018 election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario [5] and was a candidate in the 2018 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership election, placing third.
His PC leadership platform had called for Employment Insurance reform, more private involvement in healthcare, integrated defense strategy with the US, and socially liberal policies. His 2006 Liberal leadership platform emphasised the candidate as a "defender of the environment, business innovation and socially progressive values."