While attending a Stampede breakfast in Calgary, Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Interim Leader Candice Bergen shared her thoughts on Patrick Brown's ousting from the leadership race and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opting for another year of virtual Parliament. .Bergen attended the Saturday morning pancake breakfast at Calgary's Marlborough Mall, hosted by MP for Calgary Forest Lawn Jasraj Hallan where she flipped pancakes and greeted hundreds of Conservative supporters. . CPC interim leader Candice Bergen with Calgary Forest Lawn MP Jasraj HallanCPC interim leader Candice Bergen with Calgary Forest Lawn MP Jasraj Hallan .The CPC interim leader said she was excited to be in Calgary for the first weekend of the Stampede.."We're just feeling very positive about the future of our party, about the future of our movement and frankly, the future of Canada, if we can make some changes in the next election," Bergen told reporters. .Bergen said with "675,000 members in our party" it means "there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who want to see change." .She said for those not part of the party yet, the main focus of the Conservative party is to "unite our country." . CPC Interim Leader Candice Bergen in Calgary ."We want to bring back a positive message to our country where we don't always have to agree, we can have diversity of thought and opinion and belief and still be united.".When asked to comment on Brown being ousted from the CPC leadership race, Bergen told the Western Standard she is "fully confident" in the Leadership Election Organizing Committee's (LEOC) review of claims Brown allegedly broke election laws. ."LEOC is a group of individuals who have volunteered to do the job that they're doing and I'm fully confident that the decisions they are making are in the best interest of the integrity of the leadership process and the integrity of the party," said Bergen. .LEOC Chair Ian Brodie, in an email to party members on Friday morning, said the party "could not afford the risk" of having a candidate under investigation for breaking federal laws, and said the decision to oust Brown from the leadership candidacy was "the right thing" to keep the party "beyond reproach." ."It's pretty normal; it's what we've seen from this government," she said, when asked about the decision by the Trudeau government to allow MPs to participate virtually in House of Commons business for another year.."Not only do they not want to answer questions they now, once again, are going to one year of virtual parliament," said Bergen. ."Trudeau doesn't want to be accountable and Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are just lazy and don't want to work.".Bergen said it's time to "put aside the politics of wedging and dividing and stigmatizing that the Liberals like to do." .With regard to the suspension of the federal government's vaccine mandates, Bergen said, "It is so nice to be back to normal." ."As government, and as politicians, we have to trust people," she said. ."We have to trust Canadians to do the right thing and Canadians are doing that; they're looking after their health, their families, but they're getting back to normal, getting back to work, getting back to the Stampede, gathering together as communities."."It's going to help us on the economic side of things, but it's going to help our mental health and our emotional state of being as well. So, I'm very excited to see so many people out."
