{"id":201013,"date":"2019-12-25T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/former-conservative-mp-lisa-raitt-to-help-run-race-to-replace-andrew-scheer.html"},"modified":"2019-12-25T07:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T07:29:24","slug":"former-conservative-mp-lisa-raitt-to-help-run-race-to-replace-andrew-scheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/former-conservative-mp-lisa-raitt-to-help-run-race-to-replace-andrew-scheer.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt to help run race to replace Andrew Scheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<p>A high-profile Conservative who lost her seat in the last election will help lead the effort to elect a replacement for party leader Andrew Scheer.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative Party has announced that Lisa Raitt will co-chair the organizing committee for the upcoming leadership race.<\/p>\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-49408278\"><\/section>\n<p>That contest was kicked into gear after Scheer announced earlier this month he will resign as soon as a new leader is chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Raitt, along with Dan Nowlan \u2014 who oversaw the race Scheer won in 2017 \u2014 will be in charge of a group of Tories who will set the rules and timing for the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Raitt ran as well in the 2017 campaign and would later be appointed Scheer&#8217;s deputy leader. But she lost her Toronto-area seat in October, a result that underscored the Tories&#8217; dismal election showing in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Scheer&#8217;s failure to pick up enough votes there and elsewhere in the country to form government spurred calls for him to step down as leader.<\/p>\n<p>He had initially vowed to stay on and fight for his job but overwhelming pressure, along with questions about how he was using party money, led him to reverse course.<\/p>\n<p>Raitt&#8217;s position as co-chair of the organizing committee means she won&#8217;t be among the former leadership candidates vying for the job again.<\/p>\n<p>Several are mulling a run, including Erin O&#8217;Toole and Michael Chong. Other potential contenders include former and current members of Parliament, such as Peter MacKay and Pierre Poilievre, and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Brulotte, a veteran political organizer and businessman, told CBC News&#8217;s Murray Brewster that he intends to run.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative Party says the next steps for the organizing committee will be to determine the time frame for the election and the requirements for applicants.<\/p>\n<p>That will include a potential entry fee and the number of signatures required to support their nomination.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/raitt-help-run-race-replace-scheer-1.5408496?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-profile Conservative who lost her seat in the last election will help lead the effort to elect a replacement for party leader Andrew Scheer. The Conservative Party has announced that Lisa Raitt will co-chair the organizing committee for the upcoming leadership race. That contest was kicked into gear after Scheer announced earlier this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-201013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}