{"id":109833,"date":"2022-03-03T18:52:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=109833"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T00:25:57","slug":"aitchison-to-run-for-federal-conservative-party-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/aitchison-to-run-for-federal-conservative-party-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitchison to run for federal Conservative Party leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison has signaled his intent to run for leadership of his party, with an official announcement expected next week Global News confirmed early this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Candice Bergen has been the party&#8217;s interim leader since Erin O&#8217;Toole resigned in early February after the Conservative caucus voted to remove him as leader. The only confirmed candidate to date is Pierre Poilievre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am building a team that will bring Canadians and our party together,\u201d Aitchison told Global. \u201cWe are still waiting for the final rules from the (party\u2019s leadership organizing committee) and I\u2019ll have more to say in the days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leadership candidates must submit an application by Apr. 19, including a $200,000 entry fee and a $100,000 refundable deposit to ensure compliance with the rules of the race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates have until June 3 to sign up new party members. Ballots are expected to be mailed to members in late July or early August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aitchison was first elected to Huntsville council at the age of 21 and has spent most of his adult life as a career politician serving Huntsville and the District of Muskoka, and now Parry Sound-Muskoka. He was elected to Parliament in 2019 and reelected in 2021. He currently serves as the Shadow Minister of Labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/i-have-never-seen-our-country-more-divided-mp-scott-aitchison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most recent Doppler column<\/a><\/span>, Aitchison said, in part, &#8220;Canada is at a crossroads. I have never seen our country more divided and I believe that there are two paths our country can travel down.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The first is a road of anger, hatred, fighting, and rhetoric. It\u2019s a road of only listening to our own tribe and being unwilling to listen to other people\u2019s ideas. Or we can travel down a second road and choose our better values. We can choose a road of hope, optimism, pluralism, and creativity. We can choose as Canadians to hear the other side, we can choose to respect differences of opinion. We can choose to value individual responsibility over static groupthink.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party&#8217;s new leader will be announced Sept. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison has signaled his intent to run for leadership of his party, with an official announcement expected next week Global News confirmed early this afternoon. 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