Patrick Brown says the Conservative Party did not want a competitive leadership election and would have made up any story necessary to disqualify him from the race to succeed Erin O'Toole. Since he was ousted from the leadership race earlier this month over alleged violations of campaign finance laws, Brown has repeatedly claimed his removal was due to corruption within the party and collusion with the campaign of leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre. "The party would have manufactured anything to disqualify me from the race," Brown said on CBC News Network's Power & Politics on Monday. "Unfortunately the federal Conservative Party didn't want to have a competitive election. The chair of the Conservatives' Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) said the party tried to bring Brown's campaign into compliance with federal election laws and leadership race rules for nearly a week, but the effort failed.

Source: CBC News July 19, 2022 09:59 UTC