October Ballot: Party Membership

october ballot: Candidates clashed over whether to make party membership free, called for a more positive message to Canadians and lamented the party failure to master social media, according to The Waterloo Record. Ontario MP Michael Chong said nixing the party membership fee would help attract the young people, new Canadians and urban-dwellers the party so badly needs. A two-hour debate Sunday among nine rivals for the federal Conservative leadership often morphed into an autopsy of the party ill-fated 2015 election campaign. We need to build a much bigger Conservative party, Chong said. The Conservatives are trying to rebound from a resounding loss in the October 2015 ballot that saw Justin Trudeau Liberals win a majority, reducing the Tories to official Opposition status. Longtime Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai echoed the sentiment We need to build that base. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.