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Provincial Tory leadership candidate Patrick Brown has signed up Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren as a co-chair of his campaign, he announced Friday morning.
“I am honoured to have Jack’s support. He knows the issues that matter to Eastern Ontario and will be a strong advocate for the grassroots of our party,” Brown said in a written statement. “Moreover, I value his guidance and experience with the issues that matter the most to Ontarians as we work hard to re-earn the trust of voters in the next election.”
MacLaren is the second sitting provincial politician to back the federal MP for Barrie, who’s the only outsider seeking to rebuild the party devastated by the loss of nine seats in last spring’s election. Brown got an early endorsement from Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls.
MacLaren made his name in the Ontario landowner movement, a significant chunk of the Progressive Conservatives’ rural-populist wing that emphasizes private property rights. His endorsement is meant to give Brown, a 36-year-old lawyer raised in Toronto who’s been in elected office since he was 22, credibility with small-town voters.
It’s also a poke at Lisa MacLeod, the MPP for Nepean-Carleton and another leadership candidate. She’s drawn endorsements from much of the Eastern Ontario conservative establishment, including fellow MPPs Steve Clark and Jim McDonell.
One of the first big-name Tories to push MacLeod to run was Norm Sterling, the Tory warhorse who for decades represented the riding MacLaren now holds — until MacLaren took the party nomination away from him before the 2011 provincial election.
In office, MacLaren has been a maverick. Most recently, he’s supported landowners in Central Huron who want to deamalgamate their municipality and think they can do it automatically by petition, based on an unusual reading of 17th-century legislation from England. He’s also twice won his seat by about 10,000 votes.
Other candidates to lead the Tories are MPPs Christine Elliott, Vic Fedeli and Monte McNaughton.
More to come.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
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“I am honoured to have Jack’s support. He knows the issues that matter to Eastern Ontario and will be a strong advocate for the grassroots of our party,” Brown said in a written statement. “Moreover, I value his guidance and experience with the issues that matter the most to Ontarians as we work hard to re-earn the trust of voters in the next election.”
MacLaren is the second sitting provincial politician to back the federal MP for Barrie, who’s the only outsider seeking to rebuild the party devastated by the loss of nine seats in last spring’s election. Brown got an early endorsement from Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nicholls.
MacLaren made his name in the Ontario landowner movement, a significant chunk of the Progressive Conservatives’ rural-populist wing that emphasizes private property rights. His endorsement is meant to give Brown, a 36-year-old lawyer raised in Toronto who’s been in elected office since he was 22, credibility with small-town voters.
It’s also a poke at Lisa MacLeod, the MPP for Nepean-Carleton and another leadership candidate. She’s drawn endorsements from much of the Eastern Ontario conservative establishment, including fellow MPPs Steve Clark and Jim McDonell.
One of the first big-name Tories to push MacLeod to run was Norm Sterling, the Tory warhorse who for decades represented the riding MacLaren now holds — until MacLaren took the party nomination away from him before the 2011 provincial election.
In office, MacLaren has been a maverick. Most recently, he’s supported landowners in Central Huron who want to deamalgamate their municipality and think they can do it automatically by petition, based on an unusual reading of 17th-century legislation from England. He’s also twice won his seat by about 10,000 votes.
Other candidates to lead the Tories are MPPs Christine Elliott, Vic Fedeli and Monte McNaughton.
More to come.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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