Beyond Meredith, Sen. Joyal said today the ethics committee will have an interim report on Beyak by Jan. 31, 2020. The committee has said she must be complete five steps - including anti-racism training - or else she could be suspended again. BG: cbc.ca/news/politics/…#SenCA
Sen. Joyal is up on this again today. He says clearly Meredith's conduct was "reprehensible and certainly not a model for any senator." Joyal says they cannot impose any more sanctions on him expect stripping him of "honourable" and forbidding him from attending state ceremonies.
Joyal says, without action, Meredith can sign his name as "honourable" for life - and take part in state funerals with preferential seating. But, Joyal says, Meredith should be allowed due process - and he can make his case to keep the title.
"Let's give him an opportunity to be heard," Joyal says. He says the ethics code allows for people to make their case. Another senator, Josee Verner, just wants to get to the point and ask the PM/GG to strip Meredith of the title without further debate.
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“We regret having to take these steps but we have an obligation to ensure that both our Party’s Rules and federal law are respected by all candidates and campaign teams,” LEOC chair Ian Brodie says in a statement. conservative.ca/statement-by-i…
Brodie says there are allegations that the Patrick Brown campaign violated financial provisions of the Canada Elections Act.
CPC will be “sharing the information it has gathered with Elections Canada, who is responsible for ensuring compliance…”
Good evening from Laval, Que.! We're 15 minutes away from the CPC French-language debate.
All six candidates will be on stage. Three of them can't speak the language.
The seating capacity for this room is about 1,000 — still some empty chairs as people trickle in from the bar.
The seats are all full and it's standing-room only at this Laval banquet hall.
Valerie Assouline, the vice-president of the party, tell us that this is the first time the French-language debate has been held in the Montreal area.
Assouline also announced the election results will be unveiled in Ottawa on Sept. 10. (We knew the date but now we know the city and the venue — it's the Shaw Centre.)
Just off the phone with a Conservative caucus member who's hopping mad about Denise Batters getting the boot.
"For Erin, this is the beginning of the end," this Conservative told me. "It's a position of weakness. A real leader would say, 'Let's have a vote,' and trigger a caucus vote to see just how much support he really has."
This person says the more O'Toole tries to "suppress" dissent, the bigger anti-O'Toole movement will be — comparing O'Toole to Wojciech Jaruzelski, Soviet puppet leader in 1980s Poland who imposed martial law to silence opposition only to be toppled by invigorated anticommunists.
Just off the phone with a Conservative caucus member who spoke very frankly about Monday's election.
They're not happy with O'Toole. Biggest issue? Campaigning as a "true blue" in the leadership and then abandoning many promises in the general. Carbon tax. Guns. Fiscal prudence.
"He campaigned as a Liberal. He wasn't even Liberal lite — he campaigned as a Liberal in this campaign with no input from caucus or the party or anybody else," the caucus member said.
The caucus member also said they and others were caught off guard by what was actually in the party's platform.
"I didn't even know what we were running on until I saw him on TV," the Tory said of O'Toole's platform launch on day two of the campaign.
The CBC Decision Desk has not made projections in 15 ridings.
They will likely need to wait until all the ballots are counted in some of them.
Trois-Rivières
Sault Ste. Marie
Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley
Edmonton Centre
Brome-Missisquoi
Kitchener-Conestoga
Vancouver Granville
Davenport
Fredericton
Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame
Hamilton Mountain
Richmond Centre
Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Parkdale-High Park
Spadina-Fort York
Poll workers are still counting special ballots. "We expect the vast majority of those counts will be completed by tomorrow," an Elections Canada spokesperson says. "That will give a better picture of overall turnout."