Patrick Brown seeking re-election as Brampton mayor
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Patrick Brown inspired his federal management conservative supporters to again progressive candidates — together with Jean Charest — after confirming he’ll search re-election as mayor of Brampton.
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Standing in entrance of Brampton Metropolis Corridor Monday, Brown mentioned he believes in a “completely different method” to the federal Conservative Get together.
“I imagine they’re on the unsuitable aspect of historical past when it got here to marriage equality, Islamophobia, (Quebec’s) Invoice 21, and I’d encourage these greater than 150,000 Canadians who signed as much as assist my model of inclusive Conservatism to take a look at the candidates and helps somebody who shares the identical values … I’d say Scott Aitchison, Jean Charest definitely share inclusive values.”
Management frontrunner Pierre Poilievre was not in Brown’s listing of candidates he thought of worthy of assist.
The Conservative Get together pulled the plug on Brown’s management bid, alleging wrongdoing in his marketing campaign.
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Whereas selecting to run municipally, Brown mentioned he isn’t giving up his authorized problem to the occasion’s choice, arguing the rationale for his removing was “manufactured.”
Brown mentioned he threw his title into the federal Conservative management marketing campaign as a result of he didn’t need the occasion to take the route of the “excessive proper, the Ted Cruz or Donald Trump method.”
“The Conservative Get together of Canada doesn’t want to copy the politics of the U.S.; we don’t have to have a polarized debate,” he mentioned. “Sadly, the Conservative Get together didn’t need to have a free and truthful election, they didn’t need to have a democratic election.”
His household and Brampton residents inspired him to hunt re-election as mayor, he mentioned.
Brown mentioned he’s keen to work with any political occasion within the pursuits of Brampton.
“I’m desperate to make it possible for the Metropolis of Brampton may be properly served by whoever’s in Ottawa,” he mentioned.
Brown mentioned he has numerous objectives for Brampton together with protecting taxes low and addressing rising auto theft and crime in the neighborhood.
Brampton Council is break up with half of councillors against Brown’s return and the opposite half endorsing him.
Municipal voters go to the polls on Oct. 24.
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