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.
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.