PM Steve is starting to crack. He has not been able to bully the Liberals and force an election he so desperately wants. As with the Mulroney story below, and yesterday's Auditor General report, Steve's plan was to control the news for 2 weeks and head to the polls. Let's see if he wants to go to the polls on this:
Mark Warner, Conservative candidate in Toronto-Centre was removed because he tried to "strengthen the urban voice that has been regrettably absent from our current national government." Warner's news release says it best, "I joined the Party when Brian Mulroney was the strongest voice for Nelson Mandela's freedom. Unfortunately, I have found that the ConservativeParty today, by its actions, is not the inclusive Party that I once believedin. The Conservative Party today cynically pays "lip service" to diversity andoutreach to minority communities in Canada."
See Bob Rae's take on this here.
In similar news, Guelph area Conservative candidate Brent Barr was dropped and said the party brass told him he was being dropped because he wasn't campaigning hard enough to build up the party locally, despite his holding four community events a week and inviting potential voters into his home for coffee chats.
"That's a completely false statement," he said of the charge of lax campaigning. "If I had actually done anything the embarrass or denigrate the party, I would sit down right and accept it. But I didn't."
Barr said he suspected the party has pushed him aside in favour of a star candidate, something Prime Minister Stephen Harper has blasted Liberals for doing while campaigning for the 2004 federal election.
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