#CANADA: Raucous First Conservative Party Leadership Debate

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The early days of the Conservative leadership campaign have featured top-tier candidates declaring each other unfit to lead, exclusionary and untruthful, so you had to wonder what would happen when they were asked to debate face-to-face. Insults? Badgering? Accusations?

Yes, yes and yes. Two things rang out through the 90-minute debate: posturing about truckers’ convoys and nasty exchanges.

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#CANADA: Ontario MP Lewis First To Qualify For Conservative Leadership Ballot

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Dr. Leslyn Lewis has become the first Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate to officially when a place on the party's ballot.

The Ontario member of the federal Parliament also ran for the conservative leadership in 2020.

Candidates have until April 19 to enter the race and until April 29 to submit their nomination papers, 500 signatures from members of the party as well as a total of $300,000. That includes a leadership registration fee of $200,000 and a compliance deposit of $100,000.

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