The flag officially dropped a week ago for the 2020 running of the race to replace Andrew Scheer as the leader of the federal Conservatives — yet candidates can play cat and mouse until Feb. 27 before officially declaring.
Too bad, we can’t cut to the chase now.
The 2017 contest was a disaster, taking 13 ballots to replace former PM Stephen Harper, yet still coming within a hair’s breadth of giving us Mad Max Bernier and then giving us, instead, the accidental choir boy, Andrew Scheer.
Within days of Scheer’s resignation, long-time Ottawa MP and finance critic Pierre Poilievre clearly stated exactly what is needed in choosing the next Conservative to stand up against an increasingly weakening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“We need someone who will stand up, fight back, and win,” he said, all the while banging his fist on the podium.
And the party members may just end up choosing Poilievre, who is running.
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