OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Thursday that despite considerable party infighting over his future as leader, he will remain at the helm, and as a show of how he intends to change the party, he’s appointed a former Liberal as his new No. Toronto-area MP Leona Alleslev was named deputy leader of the Conservatives on Thursday morning, replacing former deputy leader Lisa Raitt, a longtime MP who lost her own Toronto-area seat in the October federal election. Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks to the media with Leona Alleslev, the party's new deputy leader, by his side in the foyer of the House of Commons in Ottawa on Thursday. Scheer reiterated Thursday he intends to spend the coming months making the case for why he should stay on. “I am staying on to fight the fight that Canadians elected us to do,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post November 28, 2019 16:23 UTC