{"id":120928,"date":"2022-09-11T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=120928"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:44:52","slug":"aitchison-urges-support-for-new-conservative-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/aitchison-urges-support-for-new-conservative-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitchison urges support for new Conservative leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/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>It wasn\u2019t the result he was looking for, but Parry Sound Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison is encouraging voters to throw their support behind the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night Pierre Poilievre was named the new leader of the Conservative Party after securing his victory on the first ballot. Poilievre took 22,993 of the 33,800 electoral points available. Poilievre received just over 68% of the vote \u2013 far more than his closest rival Jean Charest, who received 16% of the vote. Aitchison finished last in the race with just over 1% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope to speak to many of you in the coming weeks to thank you for your support, and encourage you to support our next leader, Pierre Poilievre,\u201d said Aitchison via Twitter. \u201cI am extremely grateful and blessed for the thousands of Canadians who purchased memberships, donated to my campaign, and voted for me as leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poilievre is the first leader to be elected on the first ballot since Stephen Harper in 2004.<\/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\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t the result he was looking for, but Parry Sound Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison is encouraging voters to throw their support behind the new leader of the Conservative Party [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":120930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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