O'Toole wins!
The new party leader will be decided tonight. The contenders are:
Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole, Lesyn Lewis and Derek Sloan.
Live coverage can be found at:
(Will add more as they pop up).
The show has started. Watch one of the above streams.
(Was delayed a couple of hours. Something about the vote-counting machine shredding ballots)
Update: 6:30pm
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Results delayed by an hour.
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Kory Teneyecke, Fmr Director of communications for Harper says the news coming out of the count room indicates things are looking good for Lewis and worrisome for MacKay.
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Scheer (when asked) says he's staying on board as an MP and will run in his riding next election.
Update: 7:30pm
- Delayed again until at least 8:00pm.
Update: 8:00pm
- Delayed until 9:00pm
Update: 9:40pm
- 98%+ of votes are counted, it's just the <2% that were damaged that are being hand counted. There will be a leader named tonight.
Update: 11:10pm
- Less than 100 ballots left to count.
15 minute warning.
Edit:
It's starting.
45 now!
As someone who voted PPC, I am hoping Lewis wins, with Sloan as a 2nd choice (he has no shot at winning). Why the hatred towards PPC voters? I'll be voting CPC in a snap election because PPC has basically collapsed as a party, Max revealing he took a salary is also shameful.
Jagmeet Singh took no salary, and the NDP actually have seats. Now obviously if PPC had seats in parliament then a salary would be fine. But Bernier started a party and gave himself a salary, even if he is just 'out of touch' and not corrupt, it's a bad move perception wise.
Just to add on I think you have a good point but I’d like to throw in that it’s even more corrupt that Singhy boy is receiving huge dollars through gifts and other means. He’s clearly receiving money through other methods so by Bernier doing what he did by taking a salary at least he’s honest about it and no jumping through these retarded loop holes
Agreed, however he has his MP pension I believe, which isn't peanuts.
The CPCer's in this sub are still pissed at the PPCers for splitting off in the last election as if it had any effect on the election.
I'll be honest, I joined PPC but I didn't vote PPC.
I have no problem with Max taking a salary, Frank Vaughan has been angling for leadership since the last election and it's fucking up the party but the bigger problem was that there simply wasn't enough time in the last elections to run in every riding, it was too ambitious and the candidates fucking sucked for the most part.
I could count 10 that I would vote for if I'm being generous. The rest were fucking lunatics and worse, people who were running based on their diversity rather than the party message or god forbid the ones who were running based on quiet, simmering racism.
That and Maxime fucked up the debates.
PPC has a way forward, but they really need to separate the wheat from the chaff and smarten up.
At the end of the day, PPC didn't cost the CPC the election. Scheer running a dud of a campaign cost them. PPC at best screwed CPC about 5-6 seats.
And that's assuming the PPC votes were ex-CPC votes and not rightwing non-voters
Me too. I love Max but the whack job they ran in my riding was a total embarrassment. No way I could vote for him.
That was my exact same situation. The second I saw the EDA I knew the party was going to be fucked in my riding, and it was fucked.
The machine is ripping up ballots and they have to refill them out by hand. I guess they had to stuff some extra Mackay's in there.
Lewis is probably the winner and they are in a deep panic to find their liberal conservative puppet needs assistance.
Watching True North's feed. No need to support MSM and god forbid see Rosemary Barton's mug.
https://youtu.be/2eXwwr8ge0A
They're freaked out because Sloan came first or second, and they need to "re-balance" the ballots before announcing them.
Ask Faith Goldy what that means.
If Sloan gets 10% of the vote I'll shit my pants on the couch. Literally, or at least my shorts.
inb4: Hah, pants faggot.
*MacKay will come out in the morning
man I can't stand canadian MSM every network is CNN on steroids, these insufferable cocks.
exactly the way they speak with their superiority complex spewing out of the mouth, these fucks have so much free rain to poison the mind of millions of canadians. So sick and tired of these people ruining our country.
Bought and paid for
Got my snacks ready!
Wow. Lewis cleaned up in Sask on the fist ballot.
Those damn racist rednecks! Wait, they want a black woman to lead them? They, uhhh, ahhh, uh, ah.... fuck, what do we do?
Racist!
Yeah definitely no problems with integrity here!
LIES.
DECEPTION!
What an incredible waste of time we all know it’s going to be Peter MacGay anyway
Scheer saying things in this cringe speech that he would never have said during the election. the man grew balls on the way out
So... O'Toole is going to get taken out in the second round after the Sloan votes go to Lewis but McKay is still going to squeak it out by getting overwhelming numbers in the Maritimes, a part of Canada is never going to vote for anything but the Liberals.
Tell me that isn't happening right before our eyes.
All those Sloan pro-life and so-con votes are going straight to Lewis. This is fucked.
I see it as going Sloan - Lewis - O'Toole - MacKay if they even bothered to write in MacKay.
O'Toole wins it so long as he doesn't go out in the second round but Lewis can beat him in the second round and she probably will.
Look at the looks on Ezra Levante and Shiela Gunn Reid's faces as they grasp at straws. They see it too, they just can't admit it yet.
what a fucking joke lol
LOL
The good news: Peter Mackay lost. The bad news: Erin O'Toole won. Hey we dodged the worst case but still tread in mediocrity, I guess that's the CPC way nowadays right?
If they need 50%+1 how does 2% change anything?
It’s decided on a per riding basis. So the ridings in Alberta with thousands of members is worth the same as a Quebec riding with 18 conservatives.
This is looking like an O'Toole victory now....
Yeah.
Round 2 O'Toole: 11903.69 Mackay: 11765.01 Lewis: 10140.30
Round 3 O'Toole 19271.74 Mackay: 14528.26
MACKAY LOSES!!!!!!!!!!!!
As long as they promised to the CBC to get them out of bed on Sunday and let them slander the party on tv.