OTTAWA – Nick Kouvalis, the political mastermind behind Conservative MP Kellie Leitch’s leadership bid, is defending her campaign’s tactics, proposed values test for newcomers and all-out assault on rival candidates. It’s to build a campaign around what a candidate wants to run on,” the 41-year-old said in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen. And I know people want to say, ‘That’s Nick doing this and Nick doing that.’ Everybody in this campaign has a campaign manager. She acknowledged she has a big team helping her on strategy, but insisted ultimately she decides the tone, tactics and substance of her campaign. Kouvalis also insists the campaign is not practising wedge politics, and believes Leitch is on the winning side of the debate.

Source: National Post September 29, 2016 23:26 UTC