Ontario PC Party Leadership Candidate Caroline Mulroney takes part in an interview during the 2018 Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Friday, February 9, 2018. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood

Despite the recent turmoil in the Ontario Progressive Conservative party in the wake of Patrick Brown’s quick demise, leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney still thinks the Tories can win a majority.

“We’re going to have a huge caucus. We’re going to have a majority government,” she said in a question-and-answer session with the Toronto Sun’s Anthony Furey at the annual Manning Centre conference in Ottawa on Friday.

Furey had asked her what an Ontario government with her as premier would look like.

Brown resigned as leader in January amid sexual assault allegations — which he has denied. Vic Fedeli is the interim leader while Mulroney, Doug Ford and Christine Elliott compete for the leadership.

Apart from promising to defeat Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, Mulroney provided little insight into which issues she wants to champion and what type of leader she would be.

She repeated several times that she wants to make Ontario more affordable. But the example she gave likely won’t resonate with residents who are actually struggling financially. Mulroney said people in Ontario are having to choose between buying hockey equipment or going out for dinner with their families.

She also repeated countless times that “affordability” is the reason she’s running and that will be the issue to dominate the next election. She didn’t offer any ideas of how she plans to make Ontario more affordable, however.

When Furey asked Mulroney what type of Conservative she is, she said government should be the “last resort” and should create conditions for how people can “lift themselves up,” adding that as it stands, “people can’t afford to live in Ontario.”

When asked what her message is to “rally the troops,” Mulroney said the “troops are rallied” and people are “still saying they hate Kathleen Wynne,” but her message was the along the same lines of what the audience had heard.

“We have to make life more affordable and we will do that, but after 15 years there’s an opportunity to think positively about what the future’s about,” Mulroney said, adding that she has four children and she loves raising her family in the province.

“It’s tough, but I know people want to believe life will be better so we can deliver a message saying we can make life more affordable and Ontario will once again be the great province it should be.”

Her answers didn’t seem to resonate with attendees, with one viewer saying she “doesn’t have the gab of her father.” Another suggested she said nothing of substance for the entirety of the session, noting they’d been excited to see her, but were leaving uninspired.