Ontario MPs Scott Aitchison, Leslyn Lewis and Pierre Poilievre will be on the ballot, as will former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest, Brampton, Mayor Patrick Brown and Roman Baber, an independent member of the Ontario Legislature. The party tweeted on Monday that the candidates had been verified by the Organizing Committee for the Leadership Election, which is in charge of running to replace former leader Erin O’Toole. The Conservative Party has completed the list of candidates for leadership. Here are the people and dates to look out for Leadership candidates Joel Etienne, Joseph Bourgault and Grant Abraham were all eliminated. The party’s leadership committee did not explain why the three were excluded. They were all told they had met Friday’s deadline to raise $ 300,000 and collect the 500 signatures needed to appear in the final ballot for the September vote. On Monday, Etienne said he would appeal the leadership committee’s decision to keep him out of the vote. He said he was told on Sunday that the funds and signatures he had collected were “insufficient”. “The party has so far refused to provide accounting data or data to Etienne’s campaign to justify its position, a position that seems outrageous,” he said in a statement sent to The Globe and Mail. In a series of updates posted on his Facebook page, Mr. Abraham said over the weekend that he had also met the conditions to stay in the race. But he was later told he had been expelled. Mr. Abraham “responded to the party with a statement requesting a detailed justification for their decision,” according to a statement posted on his Facebook page. Mr Bourgault did not respond to a request for comment on Monday. The chairman of the organizing committee of the leadership elections, Ian Brody, did not explain the exclusions when he contacted the Globe on Monday. In a series of tweets on Monday, the party did not mention why some candidates were left out of the ballot. Leadership campaigns recruit members in anticipation of the June 3 cut in membership sales. The Conservatives will announce their new leader, who will be elected by party members by ballot by mail, on September 10. On Friday, BC Conservative MP Marc Dalton and former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev withdrew from the leadership race after failing to meet a fundraising deadline. On Sunday, the six official candidates gathered for a forum organized by seven constituency associations in the greater Toronto area. Everyone was allowed to give a six-minute speech in front of an audience of about 900 people gathered at the convention center in Burlington. The leadership race is entering a more militant phase this month with three debates scheduled. The first discussion of the campaign will take place on Thursday in Ottawa at the 14th Annual Conference on Powerful and Free Networking in Canada. The party is holding a formal English-language debate in Edmonton in May. 11 and a French-language talk in Laval, Que., May 25. For subscribers: Receive exclusive political news and analysis by subscribing to Political information.
