Tories to announce next leader ‘with a revised program’ reflecting Queen’s deathOTTAWA — The Conservative party says the event announcing its next leader that is scheduled for Saturday will go ahead as planned, but in a more muted way. The Queen's death on Thursday prompted the party to rethink the event, since it will fall within an official mourning period. After learning of her death, the chair of the Tories' leadership election organizing committee said it would look for ways to announce the results in a respectful manner. Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay, who ran for leader in the contest that elected O'Toole, was to be the event's special guest. More than 400,000 party members cast a ballot out of some 678,700 eligible members, which is a record-setting figure.

Source: CBC News September 10, 2022 02:25 UTC