Leslyn Lewis says the upcoming Conservative leadership debate should explore topics such as the candidates’ plans for fighting the Liberals’ climate change policies and inquiring into the pandemic response, rather than addressing questions already answered.
The Tory leadership candidate suggests that she would not attend the debate next week if those and other questions that she said everyday party members are concerned about are not asked.
“It is easy to survey the parties’ 675,000 members and cherry-pick some ‘member-asked questions’ that are safe and paint our party in a media-friendly light. But if we are going to hold a debate that will actually inform the members’ voting decisions, we need to address the questions that the members are asking us directly,” Lewis said in a July 27 open letter to her party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC)….