A \u0027milestone\u0027 for Pierre Poilievre, Jean Charest cautiously takes to social media, and more
the frontrunner early in the race according to pollsEarlier this week, his campaign announced that he had just reached a “milestone” with 40 Conservative MPs supporting his campaign. Tracy Gray, MP for Kelowna-Lake Country, became the 41st endorsement for the Poilievre campaign on Friday.Former Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and Corey Tochor will be leading the efforts in Saskatchewan. MPs Tracy Gray, Kerry-Lynne Findlay and Todd Doherty will be doing the same in British Columbia.
Charest spent all day, Thursday, offering interviews and made an impassioned speech about why he has decided to go back into politics at his first campaign stop in front of supporters, in Calgary, but none of this had been shared on his Twitter account as of Friday afternoon. Poilievre, who is actually good in front of a camera, took it upon himself to blast a triumvirate of “carbon tax” supporters – Trudeau, Charest and Brown – all while filling up the gas tank of a minivan and showing his followers just how expensive gas is .
Gas prices have been mostly ballooning in wake of the war in Ukraine, and the price on carbon, implemented by the Trudeau government, only accounts for a couple of cents for each litre.Directly after his launch on Thursday night, Charest continued to face questions from reporters about his involvement in the Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou extradition case in which his team at the law firm he was working at, McCarthy Tétrault, was a part of in 2019.
“I’ve never shied away from saying what I had on my mind or from criticizing China’s Communist Party,” he said. “I have never held back any views or criticism that I have. And that’s the standard I hold myself to,” he said.