Brad Trost's leadership campaign showed its might when the Saskatchewan MP came in a surprising fourth in the Conservatives' hotly contested leadership race. 'Salted' list tracedThe Conservative Party was able to trace the list back to the Trost campaign through a process known as "salting." He also notes there would be no obvious "quid pro quo" for the Trost campaign from the National Firearms Association, which gave Trost a "B" on its report card for candidates during the Conservative campaign. Having a third party have access to our party membership list is something that's just clearly not acceptable," Nowlan said. That new leader, Andrew Scheer, has made keeping the Conservative Party united one of his central objectives.

Source: CBC News June 14, 2017 21:14 UTC