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“We want to keep growing the movement and see where this takes us”
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June 2, 2022 • 1 day ago • 2 minutes ago reading • 78 comments Independent MP and Ontario Party leader Derek Sloan speaks at a protest against the blockade on April 26, 2021. Photo by Mark Malone / Postmedia Archive
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Ontario party leader Derek Sloan is not going anywhere.
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Sloan, whose bid to win Hastings-Lennox and Addington was thwarted on Thursday, told the National Post that he is not asking for either the match or his message.
“Let’s see what the end results are tonight, we want to keep growing the movement and see where that takes us,” he said shortly after PC head coach Ric Bresee was declared the winner in Eastern Ontario.
Disappointment among Ontario Conservatives who chose to break things up with Progressive Conservatives made little difference in Thursday’s landslide victory.
Two parties, the New Blue and the Ontario Party, caught voters looking for a deeper mark of conservatism than the PCs offered.
During the campaign, disgruntled PC supporters told the National Post that they thought Doug Ford’s Conservative progressive government was too far removed from what they considered “true conservatism”, with much of the criticism blamed on how Ontario handled the pandemic. of COVID-19, accusing them of “hesitating” in the face of criticism or the retreat of politics.
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New Blue was founded shortly after Cambridge MP Belinda Karahalios was ousted from the PC caucus after voting against Bill 195, at a time when she described the Ontario Reopening Act as a means of silencing MPs. and eliminate their ability to debate future pandemic measures.
She founded the party with her husband, party leader and Kitchener-Conestoga candidate Jim Karahalios.
Neither side emerged victorious on election night: incumbent Belinda Karahalios lost her seat to PC candidate Brian Riddell in Cambridge, while Jim Karahalios lost to Kitchener-Conestoga to Conservative incumbent Mike Harris progressives.
Invitations to comment on Karahalios and the New Blue Party did not return at press time.
Founded in 2018, the Ontario Party incorporated former Conservative MP Derek Sloan as its leader last December in hopes of capturing the disgruntled Conservative vote.
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Federal Conservatives ousted Sloan last year for what the party described as a “pattern of destructive behavior.”
During his term as an independent, he finished fifth in the Alberta constituency of Banff-Airdrie in the federal election last summer before finally joining the Ontario Party.
Ontario’s only incumbent MP, former PC MP Rick Nicholls, lost his seat in Chatham Kent-Leamington to Conservative progressive candidate Trevor Jones.
“The chances of him taking over the government were low for a new party, but some of the constituencies are showing good results for many of our candidates,” Sloan told the National Post on Thursday, saying he planned to stay for help grow and build. the party.
“We did a very good job of getting our message across, we only had a few months to do it.”
• Email: bpassifiume@postmedia.com | Twitter: bryanpassifiume
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