Jean Charest

2022 - 3 - 8

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Conservative leadership race: Lewis is in, Charest expected to ... (Globalnews.ca)

Social conservatives get their standard bearer with Leslyn Lewis' entry into the race after a strong outsider bid in 2020, while Jean Charest presents ...

“Hiding from your conservative values and principles and somehow trying to project that you’re a liberal lite, that doesn’t work. “He’s a national politician, this is a national leadership race. “There is no leadership win within the west. In Lewis, the party’s organized and influential social conservative wing has found a likely standard bearer. A veteran politician accustomed to tough fights, Charest has nevertheless been out of federal politics for more than two decades. The ranked-ballot nature of Conservative leadership races means other candidates will want to siphon Lewis’ supporters’ down-ballot support.

Lewis, Brown and Charest to announce Conservative leadership ... (CBC.ca)

It's going to be a pivotal week in the Conservative leadership race. Sources close to former Quebec premier Jean Charest, Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis and former ...

Brown is a former federal Conservative MP and was once leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. He resigned from that party's leadership in 2018 after a CTV News story reported on allegations of sexual misconduct. Charest was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party while he was premier. It's going to be a pivotal week in the Conservative leadership race. Charest's supporters acknowledge that Poilievre remains the front-runner in this race. On Monday night, Charest received an endorsement from one would-be competitor. "Jean's whole career has been built for this day.

Is Jean Charest a 'fiscal conservative?' Not everyone thinks so - The ... (The Hub)

At an event in Saskatchewan with local MPs, Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre, who has already declared his candidacy for leader, accused former Quebec Premier ...

Poilievre supporters have picked up on his line of attack, with Alberta MP Shannon Stubbs declaring that the new leader “must share our values, and respect our policies. In a 2012 report by the Fraser Institute, Charest’s overall fiscal performance was ranked seventh among the ten provincial premiers. Charest promised that he wouldn’t be “running against socons” if he joined the race.

Jean Charest will run for the Conservative leadership (Macleans.ca)

Politics Insider for March 8: Pierre Poilievre will be given a run for his money; Justin Trudeau defends Canada's low defence expenses; Canada reassesses ...

In the Herald, Don Braid explains that he can afford to do that. Canada lags the vast majority, placing fifth-last in defence spending at 1.39 per cent of GDP, as of 2021, according to NATO estimates. Britain spent 2.29 per cent of GDP on defence last year, according to the same estimates. How exactly Harper will engage in this leadership contest is unclear, two sources close to him told the Star, but what is certain, they said, is that he will be motivated by a desire to ensure a “true Conservative” wins. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has a defence spending target of 2 per cent of GDP for its 30 member countries. Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter.

Don Martin: A nasty fracturing surfaces as the Conservative ... (CTV News)

Two political polar opposites are on a collision course for the Conservative leadership - and the winner could be the leader of the Liberal party, ...

He will have to shift from proudly standing with the trucker convoys and worshiping every extra barrel of oil production to bonding with the middle-road, climate-fretting Ontario voters he’ll need to win a general election. His policy preferences will not easily fit with the drift the membership wants to take - and even that direction will have to be changed to attract a general election victory. He will face more than a few MPs and their assorted bloodhounds who have already declared him unfit to lead the party for being too left. Deep divides are being drawn between yesterday’s moderate man and an untested MP’s hard-right Tory turn. As for Poilievre, he’d better be a helluva chameleon. But that’s the easy part.

Jean Charest set to run for Conservative Party leadership (True North)

Former Quebec Liberal premier Jean Charest is set to launch his leadership campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) on March 10 in Calgary.

Prior to this, he was one of only two PC MPs to retain his seat in 1993, when the PCs suffered the worst defeat for a governing party at the federal level in Canadian history. Charest has been a supporter of developing closer ties with the Chinese regime, and has said that “(o)ur policy toward China has been hijacked by Donald Trump.” Charest is expected to face off against frontrunner Pierre Poilievre, as well as Leslyn Lewis who announced her candidacy on March 8. Charest has a record of being an avid environmentalist. While Charest’s candidacy may have been supported by some Conservatives, others have strongly opposed the former Quebec Liberal premier entering the race. “Mr. Charest, Canada needs you.