MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Saturday that he's chosen a former local mayor and agricultural entrepreneur to face Quebec MP Maxime Bernier in the 2019 election. Jacques Boissinot/CP Scheer poses with former Bloc leader Michel Gauthier and Richard Lehoux on Nov. 3, 2018. But he claimed the Conservative party was the only one capable of defeating Trudeau's Liberals in next year's federal election. "If you want to change governments in 2019, you have to vote Conservative, by marking an 'X' next to Richard Lehoux," he said to cheers. He describes himself as a former dairy producer and said on Saturday that he obtained his first Conservative Party membership card in the 1980s.

Source: Huffington Post November 04, 2018 00:22 UTC