OTTAWA–Andrew Scheer took the first steps toward trying to salvage his leadership this week when he met privately with Conservative candidates in downtown Toronto, the Star has learned. The next post-election test will come Wednesday, when Scheer will address the new Conservative caucus for the first time. Kory Teneycke, a former communications director for Harper who also worked on Doug Ford’s provincial campaign, is openly critical of the Scheer campaign, saying it made key strategic errors. Hamish Marshall, Scheer’s campaign manager, received a chilly reception there at a closed-door session of the so-called “club with no name,” an elite Ontario Tory group. But Ford stressed that he does not buy the spin from some Conservatives in Ottawa that his government’s policies cost Scheer the election in Ontario.

Source: The Star November 02, 2019 11:04 UTC