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Offline Granny

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Re: Andrew Sheer Resigns
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2019, 06:58:37 am »
I'm no Scheer fan but facts are important:
Painting this as if Scheer himself dipped into party funds on the sly, "a secret slush fund" (Kory Teneycke) to pay for private school tuition is ludicrous:
"As is the normal practice for political parties, the Party offered to reimburse some of the costs associated with being a national leader and relocating to Ottawa," said van Vugt in a statement. "Shortly after Mr. Scheer was elected leader, we had a meeting where I made a standard offer to cover costs associated with moving his family from Regina to Ottawa. This includes a differential in schooling costs between Regina and Ottawa."

The CPC Executive confirmed that it approved paying the difference between private school costs in Saskatchewan and Ottawa.

Scheer is under attack by some people in the CPC, one or more of whom leaked this info to the media, slanted in a way that blames Scheer instead of the Party.
 
More to the point of his reasons for leaving ...
"It wasn’t so much what Andrew Scheer said as I left his office a week ago that made me think he wouldn’t stay on as leader, it was how he said it and the look in his eyes.

“Thomas is 14, he was 10 when this started,” Scheer said.
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He told me he wanted to stay on as Conservative leader and would be mounting a campaign to keep his job, but the emotion wasn’t there. When I told him that I didn’t see the fire in his belly to keep the job, he didn’t argue with me."

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-exasperated-scheer-leaves-on-his-own-terms

No doubt dragging his kids into the media with the tuition issue may have ignited his immediate resignation as leader.
« Last Edit: December 13, 2019, 07:49:37 am by Granny »
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