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By Ryan Rumboldt
Published June 24, 2022 at 11:36 p.m.
Candidates, from left to right, Leslin Lewis, Roman Baber, Jean Charest, Scott Aichison, Patrick Brown and Pierre Poalever pose on stage after the debate for the British leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in Edmonton, Alta, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 CANADIAN PRESS / Jeff Mackintosh Jeff Mackintosh
New advertisements for an attack by Pierre Poaliever highlight the turmoil in Brampton City Council in an attempt to cut the rival of conservative leaders and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown.
“If you can’t trust him to run a city, how can you trust him to run a country?” Ask the ads that appear on television and social media platforms, pointing to a forensic audit of the now-rejected Brampton University initiative.
The city has hired a firm to investigate about $ 630,000 paid to consultants on the project, which Brown supports, and the city’s integrity commissioner is investigating possible conflicts of interest between a consultant and a count. Rowena Santos.
Poliever and Brown have exchanged blows since the mayor of Brampton joined the race for leadership in March.
Both campaigns have already filed complaints against the party, with Poilievre’s campaign accusing Brown of violating the campaign finance law, and Brown’s team has called for an investigation into what he calls “misleading” Poilievre emails sent to members of the party regarding their membership.
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Brown’s campaign for CPC leader was met with mixed reactions in Brampton.
Five city councilors said last week that Brown was “personal ambitions over taxpayers’ interests” and “used taxpayer-funded town hall staff to work on his federal campaign.”
Brown denied allegations that, if true, would be contrary to the council’s code of conduct.
Brampton’s already fragmented city council has become even more divided after Brown and four councilors boycotted two meetings last week, blocking the appointment of a vacancy on the council.
Brown and his supporters say they are blocking the appointment to protect the city from a proposal that contradicts provincial municipal law, while opponents say it is trying to “mislead the public and stop investigations into its” suspicious “activities.”
The winner of the CPC leadership is due to be announced on September 10, but Brampton will hold municipal elections on October 24.
The mayor of Brampton will likely have to drop his re-election candidacy if he plans to see the CPC leadership race run until the final, with the local re-entry window closing on August 19th.
Brown said he would not run at the federal level for the Conservative Party under Poalever.
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