Disgraced former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Patrick Brown joins the Ontario PC leadership race

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#1  Edited By super600  Moderator
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So the former leader of the Ontario PC's who I mentioned in my previous thread about the Ontario PC's decided to join the current leadership race to get his former job back.

This is after he got kicked out of the Ontario PC caucus early yesterday.

He popped up from where he was hiding recently to publicly fight the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/02/16/star-exclusive-audio-of-patrick-brown-telling-tory-mpps-he-was-quitting-after-sex-scandal.html

Excerpt from the article above.

Ousted former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown is running again for the right to battle Premier Kathleen Wynne in the June 7 election — even though he has been banished from the Tory caucus at Queen’s Park.

In a bizarre twist to a saga that has plunged the official opposition Conservatives into further chaos, Brown on Friday filed the paperwork to join the PC leadership race, prompting rivals to blast his stunning decision.

“I think my name has been cleared and now it’s about getting Ontario back on track,” Brown proclaimed as he led reporters and cameras on a chase down the stairs at party headquarters and along Adelaide St. to a taxi.

He said the party has been “hijacked” and his People’s Guarantee election platform abandoned.

There were also rumors being spread that Patrick Brown might want to get his old job back after he resurfaced earlier this week.

It is incredibly rare for a leader of a politcal party in Canada who resigns as leader of a political party to fight for their old job back. The fact that Brown made the decision to campaign for his old job back so soon is really impressive.

Finally, Brown brings the total number of candidates in this Ontario PC leadership race to 5. 4 out of the 5 candidates have yet to meet the requirements to officially run in the race.

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#2  Edited By mrbojangles25
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Sorry, but what is a progressive conservative?

In the US, conservatives are inherently regressive; fewer laws, less government, less change, and generally favor "going back to the way things were" instead of going forward.

Anyway, nice to see someone fighting the charges. Everyone deserves a chance to defend themselves.

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#3  Edited By super600  Moderator
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@mrbojangles25 said:

Sorry, but what is a progressive conservative?

In the US, conservatives are inherently regressive; fewer laws, less government, less change, and generally favor "going back to the way things were" instead of going forward.

Anyway, nice to see someone fighting the charges. Everyone deserves a chance to defend themselves.

Depends on the canadian province if they exist in that province, but progressive conservatives are usually center-right parties that are pretty pro-business and depending on the province can be moderate on social issues. They can also be more libertarian on economic and/or social issues. They are your traditional conservative party(similar to the Tories in the UK ideologically) but they are nowhere near as extreme as the GOP in the US.There have been some cases where the progressive conservative parties have been more extreme on economic and/or social issues provincially like in Alberta during the ralph klein era and in ontario when Mike Harris was in power.

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@super600: that actually sounds like OK politics.

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He did a lie detector test and he passed. Hes just another victim of the #metoo witch hunt that targets right wingers.

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@jorzorz said:

He did a lie detector test and he passed. Hes just another victim of the #metoo witch hunt that targets right wingers.

Stop with the persecution complex. No one political party is targeted. Also don't know if he is guilty or not but lie detectors aren't allowed in court for a reason.

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@jorzorz: hahahaha