{"id":414012,"date":"2022-03-09T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/leslyn-lewis-announces-a-run-for-the-conservative-leadership\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:01:42","slug":"leslyn-lewis-announces-a-run-for-the-conservative-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/leslyn-lewis-announces-a-run-for-the-conservative-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"#Leslyn Lewis announces a run for the Conservative leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcb003758c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dcb003758c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/leslyn-lewis-announces-a-run-for-the-conservative-leadership\/#%E2%80%9CLeslyn_Lewis_announces_a_run_for_the_Conservative_leadership%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Leslyn Lewis announces a run for the Conservative leadership&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLeslyn_Lewis_announces_a_run_for_the_Conservative_leadership%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Leslyn Lewis announces a run for the Conservative leadership&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            Politics Insider for March 9: Another CPC hopeful joins the fray; a major warning from NATO; Ontario to end mask mandates\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        <strong><em>Welcome to a sneak peek of the\u00a0<\/em>Maclean\u2019s<em>\u00a0Politics Insider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter.\u00a0Sign up\u00a0to get it delivered\u00a0straight to your inbox in the morning.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leslyn Lewis<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeslynLewis\/status\/1501242228387172353\">announced<\/a> Tuesday that she is running for the CPC leadership, the <em>Star<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/2022\/03\/08\/leslyn-lewis-launches-bid-for-conservative-leadership.html?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialMedia&amp;utm_campaign=Federalpolitics&amp;utm_content=leslynlewisbid&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;source=torontostar&amp;utm_medium=SocialMedia&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_campaign_id=&amp;utm_content=\">reports<\/a>. She is the second candidate to join the race, after <strong>Pierre Poilievre<\/strong>. <strong>Jean Charest<\/strong> is to announce in Calgary Thursday.\u00a0Lewis, who led a surprisingly strong campaign in the 2020 leadership race, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> conservative with a large base of support.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The video she included is an excerpt of her speech in the House of Commons last month on the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Liberal government, a controversial move framed as the only way at that point to end a three-week long protest in Ottawa. Lewis attacked Prime Minister <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong>, saying he refused to listen to anyone who didn\u2019t share his opinion and was undermining democracy by using the law. \u201cGuarding our freedoms and upholding our democracy means we need to have compassionate hearts and listening ears,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Brown also:<\/strong> CBC <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/brown-lewis-charest-consevative-leadership-1.6376674\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that <strong>Patrick Brown<\/strong> will likely join the fray this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fractured: Don Martin<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/don-martin-a-nasty-fracturing-surfaces-as-the-conservative-leadership-race-kicks-off-1.5811108\">writing for<\/a> CTV, handicaps a Charest-Poilievre race, and finds it hard to imagine the party rallying around either of the men.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Charest wins \u2026 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. Some of them may need to be evicted to find a home in the People\u2019s Party under increasingly-unhinged Maxime Bernier. But that\u2019s the easy part \u2026<\/p>\n<p>As for Poilievre, he\u2019d better be a helluva chameleon. 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\u2019ll need to win a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election. Spoiler alert: It\u2019s hard. Ask <strong>Erin O\u2019Toole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>No word on defence budget:<\/strong> In Latvia on Tuesday, <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong> announced that Canada is extending its military mission there, Global <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8666468\/canada-defence-spending-russia-war-in-ukraine\/\">reports<\/a>, but he didn\u2019t say if\u00a0 Canada will boost defence spending: \u201cWe understand the urgency that is presented right now in the world with Ukrainians standing strong against this illegal Russian invasion. Those weapons are much more useful and in the coming weeks in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their lives than they would be in Canadian hands. But of course, we need to make sure we replace those weapons rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning to Russia:<\/strong> NATO secretary general <strong>Jens Stoltenberg<\/strong> warned Tuesday a Russian attack on the supply lines of allied nations supporting Ukraine would be a dangerous escalation, CBC <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/ukraine-russia-putin-stoltenberg-nato-1.6377675\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe allies are helping Ukraine uphold their right for self defence, which is enshrined in the UN charter,\u201d Stoltenberg said after a meeting with Trudeau, Spanish Prime Minister <strong>Pedro Sanchez<\/strong> and Latvian Prime Minister <strong>Arturs Kri\u0161j\u0101nis<\/strong> Kari\u0146\u0161 at the Adazi base. \u201cRussia is the aggressor and Ukraine is defending itself. If there is any attack against any NATO country, NATO territory, that will trigger Article 5.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Canadian energy?<\/strong> In the <em>Star<\/em>,<strong> Heather Scoffield<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/political-opinion\/2022\/03\/08\/cutting-off-russia-will-mean-tough-choices-for-the-environment-as-well-as-the-economy.html\">writes that<\/a>\u00a0the Trudeau government is pondering increasing Canadian energy exports to Europe to help allies reliant on Russian petroleum, but that would come with a price.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, there\u2019s an active push on by some \u2014 but not all \u2014 federal cabinet ministers and the energy sector to find short-term ways to increase Canada\u2019s oil and gas supply to world markets. They\u2019re scouring the country for projects that can be expanded, or quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved and brought up to speed. They\u2019re also looking hard for extra capacity to ship out the added supply. With oil and gas prices so high, the calculus of what is economical has changed. But let\u2019s not kid ourselves: there will be a cost \u2014 in emissions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>End of mandates:<\/strong> Ontario is to drop\u00a0mask mandates in shops, restaurants and secondary schools on March 21, the <em>Star<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2022\/03\/08\/ontario-to-drop-school-masking-requirements-after-march-break-sources-say.html\">reports<\/a>. Ontario\u2019s chief medical officer of health <strong>Dr. Kieran Moore<\/strong> is to announce the move at 11 a.m., the <em>Star<\/em> has been told.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA PC majority remains the most likely scenario. It would simply not be enough for either the Liberals or NDP to siphon voters away from each other to win\u2014from a purely mathematical point of view, one of these parties has to gnaw away at PC support to tip the balance in its favour. Let us recall that Ford\u2019s PCs won a 76-seat majority in 2018 with just over 40 per cent of the popular vote. So while PC support may stand just below its 2018 level, the opposition is far more divided than in 2018.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<strong>Hillier exit:<\/strong> Ontario independent MPP <strong>Randy Hillier<\/strong> was kicked off Twitter on Tuesday, CTV <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-mpp-randy-hillier-suspended-from-twitter-1.5811125\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The news comes after Ottawa police recently revealed they were investigating the MPP\u2019s Twitter activity due to comments related to the so-called \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protests in the capital city. In messages to CTV News Toronto, the Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP said the social media platform suspended his account because he \u201cstated the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In February, during the convoy occupation of Ottawa, Hillier called for his followers on Twitter to call emergency phone lines in Ottawa.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Convoy to Kyiv:<\/strong> Speaking of the convoy, Global has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8659667\/ukraine-russia-convoy-misinformation-conspiracy\/\">an interesting story<\/a> on how some of the online forums devoted to the convoy are now spreading misinformation about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunwing fallout:<\/strong> <strong>Omar Alghabra<\/strong> announced Tuesday that six passengers from the infamous Sunwing flight to Mexico received \u201cpenalties\u201d of up to $5,000 because they were not fully vaccinated when they boarded the flight to Cancun, Global <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8666998\/influencer-flight-vol-sunwing-fine-covid\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text ep-1 font-pratt\"><strong>Bankers make bank:<\/strong> Pay awarded to the CEOs of Canada\u2019s five largest banks rose by 23 per cent last year, the <em>Globe<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-pay-for-canadian-big-bank-ceos-grew-in-2021\/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+\/+Media&amp;utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links\">reports<\/a>. Five bank CEOs earned a combined $70-million in total compensation, compared with $57-million in 2020, according to company filings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 Stephen Maher<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"under-article-widget-nl\">\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-title\">Looking for more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-description\">Get the best of <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em> sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for daily stories and analysis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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