Among the leadership candidates the polls read Christine Elliott leading at 21%, Doug Ford at 16%, Caroline Mulroney at 14%, Patrick Brown at 13%, and Allen with 4%.
At an all candidates debate held on TVO (Ontario owned TV station) moderated by Steve Paikin and involving Allen, Elliott, Ford and Mulroney, Allen came across the feistiest and most conservative yet name recognition wise the least known. Allen is a grassroots activist with heavy accent on opposition to the teaching of sex education in pre first grade. Most of the other candidates agreed.
All of the original four (Elliott, Ford, Mulroney and Allen) are against the Brown-escapades as a distraction from the real job, and that is fighting Premier Kathleen Wynne.
Adu Raudkivi, Toronto