Next month, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will celebrate the first anniversary of his successful bid to succeed Stephen Harper in the probable knowledge that some of his former rivals — as well as other ambitious Conservatives — are holding a bit of a deathwatch on his leadership. Joe Clark, Turner and, to a lesser degree, Chrétien all sooner or later succumbed to the efforts of former leadership rivals. But it would be toxic for the CAQ to recruit a frontline candidate who is opposed both to supply management and to government support for Bombardier. After all, no other party features a vocal supply management opponent on its front bench. But he is hardly the only ambitious Conservative keeping his leadership options open in case Scheer does not deliver a government next year.

Source: thestar April 25, 2018 21:05 UTC