TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will hold a leadership race to replace Patrick Brown, who resigned this week in the face of sexual misconduct allegations. Party officials and members are downplaying the risk it will create divisions within the party ahead of a spring provincial election. The party’s executive voted late Friday afternoon to hold the race and select a new leader sometime before March. The caucus of elected legislators wanted Fedeli to lead the party through the election to avoid a divisive, and potentially costly, race. “I was made party leader by the caucus in a unanimous decision today and now the executive have asked that we go into a leadership race.

Source: National Post January 26, 2018 17:29 UTC