The 'huge overstep by the Conservative Fund’ to fire executive director Dustin van Vugt has created ‘bad blood’ between the party's national council and the fund, says Yaroslav Baran, a former senior Conservative Hill staffer.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured on Dec. 4, 2019, about a week before he announced he was resigning as party leader will have an uphill battle to bring back order and to hold the government to account in the coming months before the party elects a new leader, say some Conservatives.