Earlier this week, I reported on what was largely seen as a two-man race [link to video on the right of the page you’ll be taken to] to become the first-ever president of the Conservative Party of Canada. As the Vancouver Sun’s Peter O’Neill first reported, the race features “a small-town Mennonite plumber [Don Plett] facing off against a gay, bilingual Montreal corporate lawyer [Brian Mitchell] in a highly symbolic battle over the presidency of Stephen Harper's Conservative party.”
Yesterday, The Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles, citing unnamed sources, reported that Susan McArthur, a bilingual Toronto businesswoman, may also be interested in the party presidency.
Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is officially neutral when it comes to this race.
The party president is elected by the party’s national council. The 3,000 or so delegates to this weekend’s Conservative convention will vote elect the national council.