Michelle Rempel

2022 - 6 - 24

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Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner doubles down after Star ... (Toronto Star)

A law that allows MPs to eject fellow members from their caucus encourages abusive behaviour inside political parties and that's unacceptable, Conservative ...

After he was toppled, she was shuffled off the front benches and has rarely been seen in person on Parliament Hill since. We need to change that.” To consider it this time, she also walked away from helping Patrick Brown, Poilievre’s main rival, in the leadership race. I want to fix this, but from the role I’m currently in.” “I also know I have to take responsibility because I’m far from perfect myself. Rempel Garner said she jumped on the Brown campaign in part because of his efforts to make connections with multicultural communities the party has struggled to connect with over the last two elections.

Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner won't join UCP leadership race (rabble.ca)

Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner has declared herself out of the race to lead the United Conservative Party.

“It’s natural for passions to run hot, for egos to swell and for intrigue to happen in politics,” she went on. But the stuff I listed above that happens in both the provincial and federal parties crosses a line. Under the circumstances, she can be forgiven for a little self-promotion of the sort that would have been necessary and inevitable had she decided to toss her hat in the ring.

Michelle Rempel Garner won't run in UCP leadership race (True North)

Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner announced that she would not be running in Alberta's United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership race after ...

Patrick Brown also lost his campaign manager Sean Schnell the day before Rempel Garner announced that she wouldn’t be running in the UCP leadership race. “Several other senior members, including people who I’ve had decades long, close friendships with, participated in an attempt to scuttle something minor that the rules allowed for. Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rempel Garner announced that she would not be running in Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership race after stepping down from Patrick Brown’s campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada’s (CPC) leadership.

Michelle Rempel Garner Lobs a Grenade into Conservative Politics ... (TheTyee.ca)

The Calgary MP isn't running to succeed Jason Kenney. Her reasons should alarm party faithful.

“It’s natural for passions to run hot, for egos to swell and for intrigue to happen in politics,” she went on. Under the circumstances, she can be forgiven a little self-promotion of the sort that would have been necessary had she decided to toss her hat in the ring. But the stuff I listed above that happens in both the provincial and federal parties crosses a line.

Bell: Rempel Garner is out, throws grenade in UCP tent (Calgary Sun)

On Thursday, Rempel Garner says she heard there is "a significant level of hurt and uncertainty" among UCP MLAs. She heard right.

Rempel Garner says nasty infighting has convinced her not to run for ... (National Observer)

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says she will not run in the race to replace Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, characterizing his United Conservative ...

“Unity cannot be an empty phrase demanded by the status quo or a single party leader," Smith wrote. Kenney was named the inaugural leader and the party won a majority government in 2019. Rempel Garner said the problems she is seeing in the UCP mirror problems in the federal Conservative party as it recently cycled through leaders Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole. "And while the waiver was granted, and I didn’t take any of this stuff to heart, my suspicions about what I’d be in for from caucus if I became leader were validated," she wrote. She said the capstone on her decision came earlier this week when it was learned that several United Conservative caucus members, some of whom she has long friendships with, fought against granting her a waiver on her lapsed party membership card to allow her to run. “(There are) those who don’t want the former leadership team to retain any hold on power and those who are part of the former leadership team and want to entirely maintain the status quo.