Patrick Brown says no decision to seek re-election in Brampton until family consulted

OTTAWA — A spokesman for disqualified Conservative management candidate Patrick Brown says he gained’t be making any selections about operating for re-election as a Better-Toronto-Space mayor till he has time to speak together with his family and friends.

Chisholm Pothier says Brown spent the weekend attending a multicultural pageant in Brampton, Ont., positioned about 45 minutes from Toronto, and celebrating the Muslim vacation of Eid al-Adha.

In the meantime the 5 remaining candidates within the race to change into the subsequent chief of the Conservative Occasion of Canada flipped pancakes and greeted supporters on the Calgary Stampede, with lower than two months to go till ballots are counted and the winner is known as.

Brown entered the race with out resigning his job as Brampton’s mayor, and beforehand mentioned he would contemplate operating once more in October’s municipal election if he thought he couldn’t win the federal race.

He has till Aug. 19 to register as a mayoral candidate, however Brown’s place within the federal race modified dramatically final week when the social gathering’s management election organizing committee voted as well him from the competition.

Committee members ousted him in an 11 to 6 vote over an allegation that he breached federal election financing legal guidelines.

“He isn’t making any selections till he has time to seek the advice of with family and friends,” Pothier wrote of Brown’s plans to hunt a second time period as Brampton’s mayor.

Brown has mentioned his marketing campaign did nothing unsuitable and is in search of an attraction, hiring excessive profile lawyer Marie Henein as his counsel.

Whereas the social gathering didn’t launch particulars behind the allegation, a longtime Conservative organizer got here ahead final week because the one who reported Brown to the social gathering, alleging he was concerned in an association that noticed her receives a commission by a personal firm for doing work on his marketing campaign.

Brown’s marketing campaign mentioned Conservative social gathering brass refused to launch the complete particulars of the allegation, making it troublesome to reply, and mentioned it supplied to reimburse the cash paid to the organizer in query as a result of it thought their work was accomplished as a volunteer.

Since his disqualification, Brown has additionally accused the social gathering of eradicating him to stack the percentages in favour of longtime Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre, seen as his most important rival.

Each Poilievre and the social gathering have dismissed his accusation.

Ian Brodie, chair of the management election organizing committee that voted to take away Brown, emailed social gathering members final Friday to say Brown knew the allegations he was dealing with and the social gathering wanted to behave as a result of it couldn’t afford to have a candidate underneath investigation for breaking federal legal guidelines.