Conservative post-election gathering gets underway on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA — Members of the federal Conservative caucus have gathered on Parliament Hill to sift the ashes of the 2019 federal election campaign — and contemplate the future of leader Andrew Scheer.
The meeting, which follows a casual gathering with MPs that Scheer hosted at his official residence Tuesday night, is expected to be a long, drawn-out affair as members debate what went wrong in the 40 days prior to Oct. 21.
Scheer will speak to the gathering before caucus members vote on whether to adopt a series of measures that would give them more power, including the ability to trigger a leadership review ahead of the party’s convention in April.
The Conservatives earned their largest share of the popular vote since their inception in 2004, and successfully elected 26 more MPs than they had in 2017, when Scheer took over the leadership.