Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 30, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 the election aftermath Winnipeg free 2000 most leaders Days appear numbered knives May come out As parties regroup by Stephen Thome Ottawa Stockwell Day May Well be the Only National party Leader from this election Campaign to participate in the next one if the knives dont come put under Days the righting Canadian Alliance party increased its share of the popular vote in every Region of the country and gained eight to but it failed to make a significant Dent in Al important where it added just two not the 30 to 40 party strategists were aiming i Haven considered quitting at said at 50 the youngest of the party there is probably a very Good Chance that i will be the Only one of the present leaders who will be at the next prime minister Jean is widely expected to step Down before his mandate is despite his own mixed messages on the Chretien could easily walk away completely covered in looking awfully Good within the next two said Peter a political science professor at the University of Leth then Chretien Success in que Bec and the fact he delivered a third straight majority the first in 60 years May tempt him to stay Mccormick nip Leader Alexa whose social welfare message seemed lost As her party barely Hung on to offi Cial status with 13 May be pushed perhaps As soon As the party convention next she clearly int the Leader to bring the new democrats Back to a higher pro file and she May very Well be said adding she ran a focused Campaign but her message seemed old and i think the new democratic party is stuck saying the things it was saying 25 years the new democratic party needs a new message and a new and a new Leader always helps to get that Mccormick predicted conservative Leader Joe Clark wont be around its absurd to think that Clark is the tory answer for the next 10 to 15 he they need someone though he certainly rekindled the flame and kept the party in Halfway decent mused about his future after mondays i dont know if it will be in the inter est of the party to have me As its Leader in four years from Clark said after his party took just 12 it is very much possible that there will be a Complete change of leadership in All of the parties before the next elec there is talk that someone younger and from the tories base in Atlantic Canada might be a More appropriate National Leader like Nova Scotia my Peter Mackay or new Brunswick pre Mier Bernard Clark planned to discuss his future with his my leadership mattered in this Cam he i think that the party understands a key Alliance organizer in Ontario suggested yesterday a new party to bring conservatives under one but Mccormick said Day Doest deserve blame for his party Digap to dump a Leader after 100 Days because he got ambushed in one election Campaign by a real political machine is a Little he you dont usually dump a Leader unless youve got some idea As to who would take it was a disappointing it want a devastating it was just a lost Opportunity and three or four or More years to Canadian press Tom Hanson Canadian press an dhow Vaughan Canadian press Stockwell Day there is probably a very Good Chance that i will be the Only one of the present leaders who will be at the next Alexa Mcdonough clearly int the Leader to bring the new democrats Back to a higher profile and she May very Well be recount sought after Toller coaster result a judicial recount will be sought this week in the close race in Quebec Cham Plain elections Canada official said it will be requested elections Canada spokesman Pierre Blain said of the Champlain the judge has four Days after he gets the request to do the the recount in in the trois rivieras could be held Friday or he that Riding had a roller coaster result on first going to the liberals by 57 ballots and then being awarded to the bloc quebecois by seven Canadian press Frank Ounn Canadian press Juie press Joe Clark i dont know if it will be in the interest of the party to have me As its Leader in four years from Jean Chretien could easily walk completely covered in looking p a wow r 124 and youll we 2 Max tickets and a ballot to enter to win a shopping Ontario minister wants to bring conservatives under one Banner Zer Calls for new party by Mark Gaidar one of the Canadian alliances key Ontario organizers is calling for a new party to bring conserva Tives under one Banner just Days after the Alliance failed to make Federal election gains in the Bob Ontario tory consumer and commercial relations said forming a new party would be the Only Way to give the Small conservative movement a fresh it would also help heal the wounds caused by infighting Between progressive conserva Tives and Alliance supporters during the said Runci the co chairman of the alliances Ontario i talked with a couple of conservatives on election Day and we discussed the National polls with 27 per cent for us and 12 per cent for the said Runci if wed found a Way to work without a doubt we could have formed the next gov in Runciman Eastern Ontario Riding of Leeds Alliance candidate Gord Brown lost to us Ufa incumbent Joe Jor Dan by 72 elections a is considering a recount Joe if the tory and Alliance y9te combined to the they would have beaten Jerdan by about Runciman said u needed to end the among conservatives that have Given the liberals Power the last three the Only Way that process can have Merit is to have a new i dont think it would be difficult to form one because theres not a Heck of a lot of difference Between their Many Dis repeated surveys suggest that if the conservatives were to Van the bulk of the remaining tories would More Likely vote Liberal or nip than Alliance due to concerns about the party social the tory candidate for Leeds was Luke warm to the idea of uniting with the i can Tell you certainly i and Many others Are open to looking at working towards some kind of he certainly we close our minds to but the creation of a new party i dont Johnston said there would have to be significant changes in Alliance social policies to attract t9 a new Many tories see the Alliance As simply Reform under a Dif Ferent name and Are put off by policies such As citizen initiated he he added that he and other conservatives Are uncomfortable with some of the extremist elements in the Back at the legislature a Cunan was highly critical of the and Leader Joe my concern has Alv Vajs been that the Federl 1 conservative party is a top Down the Hierarchy to e party has been engage in a conversation grassroots c user natives need to apply pressure to the Leader ship to bring hem to the table with the he but Only time will ill if that can Hap Well have conservative electorate either or through Tony Cle municipal of said a alternative i does Jita of the Solute absolutely it a United Small Ter native for the through a Merg Ontario irs minister and another found no Alliance Mem Able righting to be More than a Western Reg Ohal o have to be part n of the future this cannot work without but he said he didst have the solution to the current stalemate Between Alii me and conserva Tive i run Imail said his plan for a new party i uld require grass roots polio convention and a leadership convention forming t be party now would be a Good he because if would need t least two years to properly establish itself one of the problems for the Alliance it was pushed into Battle too s on because of the Early elect a n Rumman and my he be ;