New Conservative leader Pierre Poilivre’s entourage is trying to pressure him to resign a day after Alain Race quit the party, but Quebec members of the Conservative caucus are silent on the fate of their old colleague.
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“It’s pure and simple intimidation that they have as a tactic,” began Alain Race over the phone. “I’m in shock.”
During the afternoon, members of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), including Mr. Race himself, his wife and children, received a specific text message. “Your MP Alain Race has just left the Conservative Party. He decided not to fight Trudeau’s inflation team with Pierre Poilivre. Alain, call his office now and tell him to resign as his deputy”, can we read there. The telephone number of the constituency office is embedded in the message.
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The result: the office is flooded with calls. “All three of my lines are congested,” explained Mr. Race. He also reported that he had directly contacted Pierre Poilivre and the president of the riding association, Pierre Paul-Huss, the new leader of the CCP’s Quebec caucus, to publicly denounce his departure from the CCP.
“What does this say to others? If you don’t join the ranks, you don’t put your tail between your legs, that’s what happens here,” said the main interested party, which links to “American politics” and “Trumpism”.
Alain Reyes said he was afraid of experiencing the same situation as his provincial deputy, Coquist Eric Lefebvre, saw demonstrators pass his house. The PCC’s Quebec caucus deputies did not return our requests for comment on the matter by Journal de Montréal by mid-day.
“Lack of Class”
“It was a lack of tact and a little bit of class. It appears to be vindictive,” said Ann Plante, a former adviser to Stephen Harper and vice president of the organization TACT.
A good strategy to oust him, he said, is to hold a big rally in Victoriaville in a few months “to demonstrate that they want to take back the riding”.
The approach taken so far, “strategically it’s very bad,” Mr. Plante said. “Instead of talking about unity, inflation and the economy, it diverts the conversation to internal settlement of scores. It’s a junior thing.”
“Good. It starts the same way, democracy with Pierre,” tweeted the leader of the Bloc Québécois Wives-Françoise Blanchet, after suggesting in the morning that he got along well with Mr. Poilivre.
Mr. Jean Charest campaigned in the leadership race. Reyes was one of the key players in what ended in a crushing defeat for the former prime minister at the hands of Mr Poilievre on Saturday night.
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