Conservative leadership candidate and former Harper cabinet minister Peter MacKay just sent an email to his party pledging that he will “bring a non-confidence motion to the House of Commons” to “defeat the minority Liberal government as soon as possible” (CBC News, Mar. 2).
A fall election, friend?
Conservative leadership candidate and former Harper cabinet minister Peter MacKay just sent an email to his party pledging that he will “bring a non-confidence motion to the House of Commons” to “defeat the minority Liberal government as soon as possible” (CBC News, Mar. 2).
“We need an election in October,” MacKay wrote.
It’s the clearest promise yet from the Conservatives about bringing down our Liberal government – and it follows another Conservative leadership candidate, Marilyn Gladu, saying that her “first act” will be to “bring down this government” (CBC News, Mar. 2).
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