And we're back with another episode of The QP Briefing Podcast. This week (our second-ever episode), we're talking about Progressive Conservative MPP Sam Oosterhoff's introduction to the Queen's Park Press Gallery, the problems with PC nomination contests and the debate raging around road tolls.
Any questions or comments can be directed to gzochodne@qpbriefing.com, jsmithcross@qpbriefing.com or snanji@qpbriefing.com.
NOTE: Left on the cutting room floor was the true definition of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives' PACs. The answer: Policy Advisory Councils.
As per usual, here's the background (there's a lot this week):
- Exclusive: Wanted Ontario bureaucrat hired himself, court documents allege
- Amid nomination pains, Patrick Brown says PC candidates pushing ‘divisive’ social issues not welcome
- Hutton: Another day, another so-con tale
- Brown: ‘Alleged hamster had nothing to do with’ would-be PC candidate’s disqualification
- Road tolls pit Tory versus Tories
- Equal parentage bill passes unanimously after Tories, Liberals spark a brief ‘divisive moment’
- Q&A: Sam Oosterhoff on his swearing in, same-sex parentage bill, being a camp counsellor
- Wynne: MacLaren’s raunchy jokes ‘fuel misogyny’
And here are a few other stories we mention:
- Patrick Brown appears to be keeping social conservatives at bay, would-be candidate says
- Ontario PCs dump nomination candidate Nowak over 'Muslim trash' comment
- Patrick Brown says some Ontario PC candidates not getting past vetting process
- Liberal MPPs need to say no to road tolls: Patrick Brown
- Harper says he won't reopen abortion debate
- Liberal candidates must be pro-choice, Trudeau says
- The Witch Hunts of Oosterhoff, Leitch and Peterson
The soundbites between segments are of (in order) the infamous Oosterhoff scrum, PC Leader Patrick Brown's answer to poutine-or-hamster and Brown and Premier Kathleen Wynne's back-and-forth over road tolls.
Music: "Private Eye" by Kevin MacLeod
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