Battle lines have been drawn as former MPP Christine Elliott and political newcomer Caroline Mulroney join the Progressive Conservative leadership race in the wake of Patrick Brown’s dramatic demise. A Mulroney campaign official said the former prime minister’s daughter, a 43-year-old lawyer running to replace retiring Conservative MPP Julia Munro in York-Simcoe, would formally launch her bid “within days,” likely Monday. “It’s time for an outsider, and Doug Ford can’t beat Kathleen Wynne in a general election,” the Mulroney source added. Ford, the bombastic former city councillor and brother of the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford, announced earlier this week he will run for the leadership. Because candidates have had their backgrounds vetted by party officials, both Elliott and Ford will have to go through the same checks passed by Mulroney and Phillips under the leadership rules.

Source: thestar February 01, 2018 21:33 UTC