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As a party, we have to rebuild. We can’t have the likes of Jason Kenney out there trashing longstanding Conservative members. He was going after myself, going after Rob (Ford).

We’re real. We tell it like it is. We’re not the typical politicians. We don’t BS people. When someone’s in trouble and the sharks are circling around the leader, blood in the water, some guys run away, like Jason Kenney seemed to do at the end, and other guys, like the Ford brothers, jump in there, even though we knew it was going to be a tough election.

We’re loyal to our beliefs. We don’t waver. That’s the biggest problem with politicians now. They aren’t real. They’re as phony as a two-dollar bill, and I’m talking about the majority of all parties.

We don’t pull any punches. We just tell it like it is. We respect the taxpayers, that’s key. We want to reduce the size of government because that puts money back into the taxpayer’s pocket. And we believe that people are smarter than the government. The politicians believe that they’re smarter, that they know how to take your money and spend it a lot wiser than the public.

Rob Ford and Doug Ford are not part of the political class. We’re not part of the elites. We understand how it is to run a small business, create jobs and relate to the average person. We understand what people go through in the average household. I would question whether Justin Trudeau has ever shoveled a driveway in his life.