The Hon. John Ruddick
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Apr
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Goes on for five months.
And what do they do in that five months?
Have TV debates.
There might be 10 people standing up saying, I want to be the leader of the Canadian Conservative Party.
You don't even have to be a member of parliament to be in the contest.
It is similar, but it's a bit different because they're talking about a presidential candidate.
And in our Westminster system, the equivalent of our president is actually the governor general.
The governor general doesn't do anything.
So it's similar.
It is similar.
But also in the US, when they have the primaries to elect their presidential candidates, you don't even have to be a member of the party.
You can just be Joe Blow.
You just have to tell the equivalent of the electoral commission that you want to be registered as a Republican or registered as a Democrat.
But you don't have to hand over any details, any...
But in Canada, let's say it was the equivalent of, let's say Tony Abbott's the Prime Minister and Malcolm Turnbull's challenging him.
Now I've got my criticisms with Tony Abbott, okay, but I mean, gee, he's a million times better than Malcolm Turnbull.
Now what they do in, what would happen in Canada is people who are on the pro-Tony Abbott team or people on the pro-Malcolm Turnbull team go around knocking on doors.
They go around knocking on doors and say, hey, you know there's a leadership contest coming up with the Conservative Party?
And if the person says, yeah, I'm following it closely, they said, well, we're part of the Tony Abbott team.
Oh, I really want Tony Abbott to win.
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