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Progressive Conservatives in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound will select their candidate for the next provincial election in January.
The local riding association has announced it will be holding a nomination meeting on Saturday, Jan. 18 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound.
“We have a few candidates that I can’t name yet because they’re still being vetted,” says Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Progressive Conservative Riding Association Vice-President of Communications and Nomination Committee member Karen McInnis. “That process will hopefully be finished this week. But we have been able to firm up our nomination meeting at the Bayshore.”
The nomination meeting on Jan. 18 will begin with candidate speeches at 12 p.m. And then voting will be conducted between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. The results will be announced around 5:30 p.m.
Only members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario who live in the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound riding are eligible to vote.
McInnis says you must purchase or renew party membership before 5 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2025 to be able to vote at the nomination meeting.
Current Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers, a Progressive Conservative, announced in September he will not run in the next Ontario election.
The province’s next election doesn’t have to be held until June 4, 2026, but Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative party has been nominating candidates amid speculation the sitting government could send Ontarians to the polls sometime in 2025.