Conservative leadership debate

Now that the second official debate of the race is out of the way, Conservative leadership hopefuls will turn their attention to signing up as many ...

Entering as the mayor of Brampton, Ont., Brown had a reputation in Conservative circles for his ability to organize from his time as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives. Under new rules adopted last year, a riding must have at least 100 members in order for candidates to nab the full amount of points available to them in the ranked-ballot system used to determine a winner. The party's leadership election organizing committee says it is already breaking records for how many new members candidates have drawn in ahead of the June 3 cutoff date for new members being able to vote.

LAVAL, Que. - Conservative leadership hopefuls are squaring off — in French — in the second official debate of the race, which is being held in Laval,...

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Front-runner Pierre Poilievre was the main target for most of Wednesday night, as the candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership traded barbs ...

Conservative Party of Canada leadership hopefuls Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber, Patrick Brown, Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, and Pierre Poilievre squared off ...

He also touted his involvement in helping to free Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from detention in China. Brown went first, arguing that exporting clean energy and supporting China in lowering its emissions is one way to improve relations with the superpower, which he says have been fractured since the Harper government days. This resulted in more pointed attacks coming from the candidates. Instead, the candidates did seek to differentiate themselves on inflation, official languages, and foreign policy. Not taking any chances, the French-language debate saw the candidates take the chances they could to differentiate themselves from their opponents. - Meet the six candidates on the ballot to be the next Conservative leader