Why shouldn't Marilyn Gladu be a contender? - Macleans.ca

By the end of January, the 2020 Conservative leadership selection process was two weeks old and the field was settling into three strata: the front-runners, the nobodies and the ones who got away.The 2019 election had cost Justin Trudeau’s governing Liberals 20 seats, their majority in the House of Commons and popular-vote bragging rights: the Conservatives, under Andrew Scheer, might have won fewer seats than the Liberals, but they had won 200,000-odd more actual votes.

But MacKay also racked up endorsements from veterans of the party’s more staunchly conservative Reform-Alliance wing: Western-based former cabinet colleagues such as Monte Solberg and Ed Fast, political scientist Tom Flanagan, pollster Nick Kouvalis. The support doesn’t seem based on anything MacKay has said or proposed, because he has taken care not to say much.

“There are a third of our caucus that are helping me to get signatures and to reach out and collect volunteers,” Gladu told me in a noisy Sparks Street diner two blocks from Parliament Hill. “Many of these would be new people [recently elected MPs] who would be afraid to come out, let’s say, and support me—in case I lose and Peter MacKay wins, and they end up on the back bench.” Gladu is the MP for Sarnia-Lambton, my hometown.

Were there glimmers of something interesting in there? Surely if so, it can be stolen by one of the more saleable candidates. Except Gladu turns out to be pretty good at sales herself. “I do have 32 years of global business experience as well as a successful career in Parliament,” she said. “I worked in petrochemicals, oil and gas. I worked for Suncor, Dow Chemical, WorleyParsons, many companies that would be familiar names that have been decimated by Liberal policies.

Gladu is one of Parliament’s tallest MPs. She seems comfortable in her skin. “Jean Charest called me” when he was still testing the waters for a leadership run, she said. “That was interesting. And he said, ‘Marilyn, I don’t know you, but when I heard you were running I googled you. Wow, you are one impressive lady.’ . . . Then he asked what I had heard about him.

It doesn't matter who becomes Harper's future finger puppet.

Good article. So why haven’t the national media given her more profile? An engineer who speaks French and had a long private-sector career. Why haven’t we heard about this experience before?

The racists in the MSM seem to be suppressing some of the more interesting candidates like a female lawyer in Toronto. Must be trying to collude to get their stories together to somehow reduce her worth because she is a Conservative.

Yeah why not indeed!

Hell Fing no

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The entire thing is a circus!

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