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"Craig Chandler's strategy has the most opportunity for
growth"
It's official! After trials and tribulations too numerous to mention Craig Chandler is officialy the PGIB www.2cards.ca Project official leadership candidate in the race to replace Joe Clark as the leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In 7 days you
came through for Craig. When we needed signatures from the 5 regions
of Canada you came through. Thanks to Bruce Peck, Heber Branton,
Dave Stewart, Larry Branton for getting our support in Labrador,
Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Foundland and New Brunswick.
Thanks to Peter Singleton and David Anber (Canadian Alliance National
Executive Councillor) and the Concordia Canadian Alliance for getting
our needed signatures in Quebec. Thanks to Ray Rosseau and Jim Arthur
for helping achieve our When we needed
to raise our $45,000 for our campaign deposit in 7 days because
of a misunderstanding in party regulations you all pulled through
again. Family and friends of Craig came through with the money in
3 days. There are too many of you to mention in this short e-mail update, but you all know who you are. Thank you! However, we need you to come through for Craig again and in order of importance this is what we need:
On Sunday March 2, 2003 our candidate Craig Chandler showed the rest of Canada what we already know. He is an honest straight shooter that does not sugarcoat the truth. Craig said some things that needed to be heard. Craig communicated a sincere message of uniting the conservative movement that was not easy for some establishment Tories to hear. However, Craig went into the lions den and delivered the message. Below are some quotes from some newspaper clippings throughout Canada. "The
only thing we did wrong was we didn't take him out," Chandler
said of Saddam. "we're going back to finish the job, and if
we're not supporting our American allies, that's cowardly. Absolutely
cowardly". "Mr. Chandler's main plank was
Conservative unity with the Canadian Alliance, although he received
little applause for his platform" "Mr. Chandler, a slab of a man
with surprisingly delicate legs, is the unite-the right guy. He
holds Alliance and Tory cards and shares the cherished belief of
this newspaper's editoralists, that Tories and Alliance members
should simply ignore their differences of opinion for the sake of
beating Liberals." "Chandler, who advocated private
medicine, closer economic ties to the U.S. and a merger with the
Canadian Alliance party, provided the rant of the day when he lamented
"the anti-Alliance, anti-co-operation, head-in-the-sand...egomaniac,
regional, do-it-my-way, small-tent, narrow-mindness that I've seen
in other candidates." He was staring at Mackay as he spoke." "And then there is Craig Chandler
a zealot from the far right..." "Mr. Chandler, on the other hand
is the personification of a certain Canada that believes any disagreement
with the Bush White House is treasonous. "Before I get to my
main message," he said in his opening remarks, "I want
to apologize to the United States on behalf of our country."
We need $80,000 more dollars to bring Craig to victory. The amount of money coming in is impressive but for what we have budgeted it is still short of what we need to cross the finish line. Donations to Craig Chandler can be made by MasterCard, Visa, American Express, cheque, cash or money order. If you make your donation by cheque it must be payable to PC Canada Fund - PGIB www.2cards.ca Committee and mailed to RR#3 Rockwood Ontario, N0B 2K0 Where will your money go? It will be used towards brochures, postage, envelopes, telephone bills, flights, hotel expenses, campaign salaries for the Candidate and Campaign Manager etc... Will I benefit if I make a donation? By contributing to Craig's campaign you are supporting the unity agenda of The Progressive Group for Independent Business (PGIB) and that is a substantial benefit. Even if you are voting for another candidate, but feel the unity issue is important you can still contribute so the message is delivered in this leadership race. However, being that Craig Chandler is as an official candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada all donations made entitle you (Individual or Corporation) to tax credits. For example if you donated $100 your tax credit would be $75 and if you contributed $500 your tax credit would be $300 so your actual costs are minimal. Sponsor An Event. For a contribution of $1,000 you can sponsor an event on the Chandler for PC Leader tour and get your company great exposure. * Your Company
name logo or message will appear in the Upcoming Events section
of the campaign website. Donate Your Air Miles. Craig is travelling across country and it all adds up. Infact, just to make sure that he attended a Delegate Selection Meeting recently on Saturday, March 8, 2003 we spent $1,188.88 to get him there. You can donate one way or you can donate a round trip we just need the support. If you would like to help Craig in this manner please call the Chandler for PC Leader Travel Agent Barbara Pekrul at Advantage Aldershot Travel in Burlington, Ontario at (905) 681-1323 or e-mail unitycandidate@aol.com
The Chandler
for PC Leader campaign was quite noticeable at the annual Premier's
dinner on March 4, 2003 at the Mississauga Convention Centre in
Ontario. Craig and Bruce Peck (PGIB Ontario Chairman and Chandler
for PC Leader Campaign Manager) were shaking hands and promoting
the www.2cards.ca Craig introduced Bruce to his long time friend and former Ontario Premier, Mike Harris and close friend Frank Klees, Minister of Transportation. Frank and Craig greated each other like long lost brothers in a friendly embrace. Joining Bruce and Craig at their table was John Capabianco a well known and respected Canadian Alliance and Ontario Progressive Conservative mover and shaker. Craig was introduced along with Jim Prentice as special guests of the sold out dinner and in the Premier's speech Craig and Jim were at the brunt of a joke. The joke told in good fun by Ernie Eves was the following: "I received an award last night in Windsor and it was not because I was the last Tory out of Windsor. I hope Mr. Chandler and Mr. Prentice will forgive me but Hugh Segal who presented me with this award said to me that he does not belong to any organized political party and I asked him what he meant by that. Well, Hugh replied, I am a member of the federal Progressive Conservative Party". Craig and Bruce served the movement well at this event and we thank them for their consistent efforts.
Dear Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Member, My name is Craig Chandler and I write you this letter to request your support for my leadership bid of this proud party. I hate to admit it, but we conservatives can learn something from the Liberals. They've been
successful at it for years. And that's how they continue to undermine
conservatives, win policy battles and maintain governments throughout
Canada at every level. The success I am referring to is a simple
I first got involved in politics in 1989 with the Reform Party of Canada and was one of the first Reform Party members when the party expanded east of the Manitoba border in 1990. This was the first party that I ever joined. I was impressed by the bottom up, grassroots, democratic policies, and less government-lower taxes mentality of Preston Manning. I decided to get ivolved in a serious way and dedicate my life to helping the next generation of Canadians. I served on the Board of Directors for the Burlington Reform Party Constituency Association and helped organize several ridings for the Reform Party in Ontario. In 1992, I co-founded
the Progressive Group for Independent Business (PGIB) in response
to Bob Rae and his socialist NDP. The PGIB very quickly became a
force to be reckoned with and proudly helped the Mike Harris, Common
Sense Revolution with PGIB policies. We helped prevent a divided
right in Ontario In 1993, I decided to run for Member of Parliament for the Reform Party in Burlington. I lost the nomination, but was immediately approached by 7 area ridings to seek the nomination for the Reform Party in their area. I chose Hamilton Mountain and ran against 5 other candidates in a hotly contested nomination. I won with over 67% of the vote. I was 23 and my campaign slogan was "Blessed are the young for we shall inherit the debt". The media said that I was an extreme long shot and said that I would get 2% of the vote if I was lucky. I finished second to a Liberal in Hamilton with over 10,000 votes for a party that did not exist in the prior election. Not bad for a long shot. In 1993 I was concerned then as I am now that my generation, Generation Taxed not Generation X, has had its future mortgaged. We were simply out numbered 3 -1 and there was a massive health care crisis looming before us. Billions of dollars were going towards just the interest on the debt without even touching the principal. I am sad to say that nothing has changed, other than increased corruption, graft, bribery, an erosion of family values, activist judges, child pornography and the list goes on. This is the legacy of the Liberals and without a united conservative movement in this nation, I am very much concerned that things will get dramatically worse for out children and grandchildren. I came to the
conclusion quite some time ago that what ails Canada will not be
cured with a divided conservative movement; in fact it is to a large
degree the reason these problems exist and are being perpetuated.
I then took out a membership in the Progressive Conservative Party
of Canada in 1998 We have been travelling a road of vote splitting and holding onto the baggage of past transgressions within the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The Canadian Alliance has chosen a new leader that has clearly shown on many occasions that unity between the conservative family is important. With my candidacy, we now have an opportunity to elect a Canadian Alliance friendly leader within the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. We must work together. We must end the feud. We must rid ourselves of the posturing type leadership we have seen in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. It is really that simple. I am a less government, lower taxes and political accountability candidate with a wide range of policies that can be viewed at www.2cards.ca under my policy section. However, the most important policy during this entire election is uniting the conservative movement and working together with the Canadian Alliance to end the Liberal monopoly and death grip the Trudeau and Chrétien regime has had on Canada for all these years. Quite frankly, if any of the other candidates truly wanted to unite the conservative movement they would have done more than merely pay lip service to this crucial problem during a leadership race. My thumbnail sketch of my opponents can be characterized as follows: David Orchard is not a conservative. Peter McKay and Scott Brison are on record as anti-Alliance. Jim Prentice has a chameleon like approach, depending on which part of the country he is speaking. Heward Graffety is part of the problem in our party and why we are no longer government. Andre Bachand represents only the interests of one particular province. I am the only leadership candidate that is a 2 card carrier, a member of both the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. I am similar to a child in a separated family where my mother is the Progressive Conservatives and the Alliance is my father and I am just desperately trying to get my family back together. This leadership race is quite simply about uniting the conservative movement and nothing more! All our policy positions are absolutely irrelevant unless we are united. We need to elect a leader that will sit down in good faith with Stephen Harper and work out a parliamentary coalition before the next federal election. Mr. Harper needs to be able to negotiate with someone that he can trust and I am that man. I believe that I best represent the hope of success for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. I ask for you to look at my website at www.2cards.ca in detail and support me both publicly and privately. I may not be the establishment's choice, nor am I the media's favourite son, but if you truly want to see the conservative movement in Canada returned to its former glory, then supporting me is the right and principled choice to make. I hope to be hearing from you soon. Let's Get It
Together, P.S. If you need to renew your membership or know people that would like to support a unity conservative movement have them sign up on-line at http://www.pcparty.ca/doc/510/ or by calling our headquarters at 519-856-1634
The Progressive Group for Independent Business (PGIB), www.2cards.ca Project is a long term project that needs support from conservatives of various stripes. Our first objective is to get a Canadian Alliance friendly leader elected to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada so that serious parliamentary coalition talks can commence to unite conservatives into one unified Liberal slayer. We know there are egos and arrogant attitudes in both the Canadian Alliance and in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, as we have received nasty e-mails from both sides. However, we also know that in both parties there is growing support for our unity message. To those of
you that want to see the unity issue remain at the forefront even
after Craig Chandler is selected leader of the Progressive Conservative
Party of Canada we ask you to help us in a financial manner. PGIB
does not feed at the public trough in any way shape or form. Unlike
other interest groups we feel that if you can't survive without
government funding than your group does not deserve to exist. Join
the PGIB www.2cards.ca Project by filling out the membership application
form at www.2cards.ca or mail a cheque with your full information
to: PGIB at PO Box 44068 Southcentre RPO, Calgary, Alberta, T2J
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