VICTORIA – Vancouver Island MP Aaron Gunn says he won’t run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C. because he doesn’t want to risk giving the federal Liberals a majority government.
Gunn says his departure could “upend the balance of power in Ottawa” and leaving would be too great a risk as Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to pursue a “deliberate and transparent strategy to bribe or otherwise convince morally bankrupt MPs” to cross the floor.
He adds that he doesn’t want give some media and the federal Liberals an opportunity to “spin” his departure as a “loss of confidence” or “worse, a betrayal” in the leadership of federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.