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For Conservatives in the Ottawa area, the decision to snub mayor Jim Watson is likely one they will revisit in their post mortem of the 2015 campaign.

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Take, for example, Conservative candidate Andy Wang, who ran for the Tories in what should have been the relatively safe territory of Nepean, held since 2004 by his former boss, Pierre Poilievre.

Wang was one of a group of local Conservatives to chose not to meet with Watson, who invited candidates to City Hall to discuss issues relevant to the National Capital.

All nine Conservative candidates passed up the original invitation and — when given a chance for a do-over a week later — only Poilievre and Ottawa South candidate Dev Balkissoon showed up to talk to the mayor.

Emails circulated among some prominent local Conservative supporters in Nepean expressed bewilderment at the decision to skip the first meet.

On August 25, lawyer Golsa Ghamari circulated a link to a CBC story about the Tory no-show to a group of active Conservatives in Nepean.