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The Conservative MP for Moose Jaw – Lake Centre – Lanigan is coming to the defence of his party leader.
In a Facebook post Friday, Tom Lukiwski says the campaign to get Andrew Scheer to resign is not coming from widespread discontent amongst the grassroots.
“It is time to call a spade a spade and to call ‘shame’ on those acting shamefully,” Lukiwski wrote.
“Rather, the entire campaign, played out in both conventional media and social media, has been driven by a small cabal of backroom boys, many of them former supporters of Maxime Bernier and veterans of an assortment of far-right third-party advertisers. Not to put too fine a point on it, they are mercenaries and trolls, trying to manipulate and concoct division and discontent that does not exist.”
Scheer has been facing calls to resign after failing to win the last election.
Kory Teneycke, a former spokesperson for Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, is among those calling for Scheer to step down. Teneycke was also running Maxime Bernier’s failed leadership campaign with Scheer as his main rival.
On Friday, MP and former cabinet minister Ed Fast said he turned down a position in Scheer’s shadow cabinet, saying the party needed people who fully supported him.
Earlier in November, Scheer won the support of caucus but he still faces a leadership review in April next year.
In Lukiwski’s view, that is the proper arena for discussions about Scheer’s future as leader.
“The Conservative Party operates by rules and, on the topic of leadership, the rule is clear: the members decide,” he wrote. “There is an established process for members to review the leader’s performance at the first convention after an election.”
— With files from The Canadian Press