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

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If Immigration came with the stipulation, in Ontario anyway, that you had to reside North of the French river, it would be fine.  Whether or not that could logistically and legally occur, then maybe that could be possible.

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O'Leary with slight lead over Leitch in CPC supporters poll, with Bernier in strong 3rd. All other candidates are bit players. More importantly, Leitch and O'Leary are tied for "which candidate would you rank the last". Looks like the CPC leadership race will become an even greater dumpster fire than the Republican primary.

http://ipolitics.ca/2017/02/17/leitch-surges-in-latest-mainstreet-tory-leadership-poll/

Hopefully without the same ultimate electoral result.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3207501/kevin-oleary-justin-trudeau-conservative-leadership-race-poll/
With O'Leary as leader, Liberals and Conservatives would be neck-and-neck. But with either of the other two as leader, the Conservatives would win 26-28% - the worst result for the right in general since Confederation. Sad!

It stands to reason. O'Leary is pretty liberal (for lack of a better term) especially on social issues while Leitch is fairly right wing (especially on social issues). If I were Canadian, I'd still support Trudeau's Liberals but I wouldn't feel like the earth is falling apart if O'Leary Tories won. Can't say I'd feel the same way with Leitch.

Of course, polls were wrong here stateside...

She's fairly right wing on immigration.  Not so much on social issues.  She marches every year in Toronto Pride, supports same sex marriage, supports government funding for gender re-assignment surgery, has stated she does not want to re-open the abortion debate, supported adding "gender identity" and "gender expression" to the Human Rights Act and Criminal Code.

I don't agree with her stance on the "Values test", but she is far from being right wing on social issues.