Brown, Charest campaign pressures conservatives to release membership lists to track potential duplicate members

OTTAWA — Two more federal conservatives The leadership campaign casts doubt on the claims of front runner Pierre Poirievre, who is estimated to have sold 312,000 memberships. One campaign asks the party to investigate "misunderstanding" Poirievre emails.

The complaints made by Patrick Brown's team on Thursday refer directly to theNational Post article from June 14, 2022, whereis. Reported an email sent by the Poilievre campaign was causing confusion and panic among members in the last few hours before the sales deadline.

In a letter, Brown's National Campaign Co-Chair John Reynolds questioned the possible "illegal" use of email communications with members of the Conservative Party of Canada. Second membership, fearing that their first purchase might have gone wrong.

"Our campaign has already paid for membership, but we have received many complaints about Poilievre email from members who were confused by purchasing a new membership as a result of an officially visible warning. As a result, the members are angry at the misunderstanding, "he wrote.

"Begin immediate investigation of misleading and fraudulent emails, including whether fraudulent emails were sent to the Conservatives, contrary to LEOC rules and Canadian election law. Request the parties to do so. The membership list offered for all campaigns. ”

Poilievre campaign sources said about 70,000 memberships were sold on Poilievre's portal in the last 48 hours. I confirmed that to the National Post, but the email was a member by the deadline of June 3rd.

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To do that, the Poilievre campaign is a leadership race. From the beginning, we cross-referenced the petition and other information collected by email with the list of CPCs. Members were given to all teams in late April and membership was sold on the Pierre4PM.ca portal.

Sources have caused some confusion about the various email addresses used by members and the "incomplete data" from the parties.

Conservative spokesman Yaroslav Balan confirmed that the party received Reynolds complaints on Thursday and said it would be taken "seriously" like all complaints. He added that the party would evaluate whether the investigation was justified.

Complaints from the Braun campaign are from another campaign co-chair, this time the Jean-Chareste team, and each team's data.

"We trust the party headquarters' ability to eliminate duplications and ineligible members, but the campaign is about where these duplications occurred. I believe we need transparency, "said Mike Coates at the Wednesday party.

In an interview, Coates said he wanted to make sure that the various campaigns weren't "increasing". But he also didn't hide the fact that most teams, including him, wanted to get into the persuasive stage of the race.

"The party is considering shipping these ballots in mid-July, so there isn't much time to start convincing members before the ballots start to arrive," he says. I did.

The Conservative Party said it was "on track" with a pledge to send a preliminary voter list to the campaign by the first week of July on the target date of July 4. There is no reason to believe that the party will not reach this milestone.

Ballots will be distributed to party members in late July or early August and must be returned by September 7. The new leader will be announced on September 10th.

Reslin Lewis's team considers Poilievre's email to be "misleading", claiming that there may be "tens of thousands" of people who accidentally purchased two memberships. Therefore, it was the first team to question the duplication of membership.

Members in such situations will be granted a two-year membership instead of a one-year membership.

Balun, on behalf of the Conservative Party, said that "actual verification of membership to maintain the integrity of the voter list" is a priority and "the process is currently underway." I emphasized. The number of members has exceeded a record high of 600,000.

"We currently have a small number of troops doing this work and are working hard to scrutinize the list as soon as possible," he said.