The flag officially dropped a week ago for the 2020 running of the race to replace Andrew Scheer as the leader of the federal Conservatives — yet candidates can play cat and mouse until Feb. 27 before officially declaring.
Too bad, we can’t cut to the chase now.
The 2017 contest was a disaster, taking 13 ballots to replace former PM Stephen Harper, yet still coming within a hair’s breadth of giving us Mad Max Bernier and then giving us, instead, the accidental choir boy, Andrew Scheer.
