Conservative MP Scott Aitchison will announce his resignation from Parliament as soon as Wednesday, Global News has learned.
Aitchison will be the eighth MP to leave Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative caucus since the 2025 election.
Aitchison was in Newfoundland and Labrador Tuesday and did not respond to questions but a source who requested anonymity and who is in close contact with the Parry Sound – Muskoka MP said he informed Poilievre a week ago about his intention to resign his seat.
Aitchison, who ran and lost against Poilievre for his party’s leadership in 2022, is expected to provide more details about the timing of his resignation when he issues a statement either Wednesday or Thursday. The source said he expects Aitchison will resign before the House of Commons rises for its Christmas break in December.
The Hill Times first reported that Aitchison was likely to resign his seat.
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Aitchison, 53, was first elected in 2019, taking over the Ontario cottage country riding that had been held by Tony Clement from 2006 to 2019.
The riding should be considered a relatively safe Conservative seat though Liberal Andy Mitchell held the riding from 1993 to 2006 and made it into former prime minister Paul Martin’s cabinet.
The source close to Aitchison did not provide any specific reason for Aitchison’s decision other than to say that, after 30 years as an elected official, Aitchison believes it is time to try something else. Aitchison worked in financial services and real estate before becoming the mayor of Huntsville, Ont. in 2014. He was first elected to the town council in Huntsville at the age of 21.
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Aitchison is popular among MPs from all parties. He is seen as a centrist in the Conservative caucus and was his party’s housing critic. Earlier this year, Aitchison and Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman led a fundraiser for LGBTQ+ refugees, an initiative that was seen as a way for the Conservative party to demonstrate its support for the rights of gender and sexual minorities.
“We’re all God’s creatures and we’re all loved, and we all deserve to be loved and we all deserve to feel safe and secure,” Aitchison told The Canadian Press in June. “I believe that it’s important for all of us to — not to preach that, but to demonstrate that.”
The departure of Aitchison is sure to raise yet again, more questions about Poilievre’s leadership.
Since the spring of 2025, four MPs deserted the Conservative benches to sit with Mark Carney’s Liberals; one left to sit in the Senate as an independent; and three, including Aitchison, have simply quit politics.
There are currently six vacant seats in the House of Commons and, when Aitchison makes his announcement, there will be seven.
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Brian Greenside is not honest, much like his Liberal friends.
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Of course before this annoucement both the Liberals and Conservatives had lost 7 MP’s.
I won’t hold my breath Akin on a balanced story.
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I’m a lifelong Conservative but like pretty well all my friends we can’t ever see PP as Prime Minister. Carney is pretty much a centrist which is the way many of us are leaning these days. We feel lucky to have him as our PM in these turbulent times as we navigate dealing with the White House scumbag.
Carney was elected to deal with Trump, with he has not. The only thing he has done is piss off Trump. He wasn’t elected to make Canada an associate of the EU.
Pretty hard to win ” the cup” when you only have 3 people left on your team!
Ben get off the computer!
He worked with others so PP can’t work with him.
Hard to believe.
PP is still here???????
Vinny, what are you smoking? What public sector entities did Harper privatize, and then please enlighten us on how socialist economies are booming because all the industry is run by the government??
The studies have shown that harper misused what was a profitable time for Canada and heavily privatized in that time. Earning Canada much less revenue in the process. You’re right. Carney is moving us in the same direction of harper.
And Gord, Harper never prorogued Parliament during a generational external threat looming on the horizon. The LPC did that while Trump was threatening us.
“after 30 years as an elected official, Aitchison believes it is time to try something else.”
Good luck in future endeavors. If people voted for him for 30 years then he must have been a good politician.
Gord
“some will come back” lol. yeah sure thing there. Manufactuers easily just pick up and come back.
As for citizens leaving, the 2024 was a 57 year record being broken. We all know someone who left. Its not normal for that many people to leave. In fact it was more than a half a century since that many left. Doofus!
Trudeau did a good job during Covid? You mean when we were the last western country to stop flights inbound from China, or when he pursued a vaccine from China, or when we were the last western nation with lockdowns, and when people protested as is their right he claimed it was a foreign funded action and he forced our banks to freeze their bank accounts.
Harper’s was not a lost decade economically. The opposite. And you are too stuck in your ways to back that claim with data.
As for the latest proposed deal, we don’t know if it was a bad one since Carney refuses to release the details.
Anonymous. Where were you when Harper prorogued Parliament to avoid a non-confidence vote? I understand that you’re upset because the Conservatives have made themselves irrelevant, but that doesn’t change the fact that Canada isn’t failing and the Conservatives aren’t going to form government.
You talk about Canadian businesses “thinking” about moving to the U.S. “Thinking” and “doing” are very different. Some will move, some will come back, but the chance that 40% of Canadian business will permanently move to the U.S. is ridiculous.
As to people moving from Canada, people have immigrated to and emigrated from Canada for decades; nothing new. Trudeau was a terrible PM who believed the budget would balance itself. He was also the PM who did a good job taking us through COVID and who bought, doubled and extended a pipeline for the oil industry. Trudeau followed the lost Harper decade which was marked by reduced revenues, higher costs, increased deficits and increased debt for no reason. Apart from reducing GST by 2% I can’t think of anything Harper did that survived.
Carney is doing the job that he was elected to do. By the time Carney was elected, Trump had already violated CUSMA and the WTO Agreements by imposing tariffs on Canada in excess of the agreed bound rates. Trump then violated the CUSMA, WTO, and every other U.S. bilateral and regional trade agreement with his Liberation Day tariffs. Trump was clear that he wanted to upend those Agreements to the benefit of the US and to the detriment of every other country. Carney could have gotten an Agreement with the U.S. by taking a bad deal, but that would have been poor strategy. Only a fool would take a bad deal.
Since then, we’ve increased our exports to countries other than the U.S. while increasing our exports overall. We’re moving ahead with efforts to diversify our exports. This didn’t mean entirely cutting off the U.S. It meant reducing our dependence on the U.S.
We’ll get an agreement with the U.S. eventually. I know that you want one immediately, but reasonable Canadians aren’t willing to sell out the country to get that. Luckily the Conservatives have no hope of power because they’d be lining up to sell us out, probably with you cheering them on.
So pull your head out of your ass and take a real look at the country. BTW, if you have actual proof of Liberal corruption give it to the Police or just shut up about it.
Looking forward to your next artwork. I’m sure your Mom is proud when you show her.
Gord, shut up!
“The Liberals aren’t openly corrupt and inept.”
They and Singh delayed our last election for no reason other than to save themselves from oblivion. They needed an external threat to swing votes toward them as the incumbents Instead of negotiating with the incoming Trump administration the LPC antagonized and was focused on campaigning not governing. At one point we had the association of Premiers speaking to the incoming Trump administration, because there was no one else.
I am sure you were clapping while our democracy was being eroded. Just as I am sure that you heeded Carney’s words when he first joined the campaign, and you took action in your own way and went looking for “Canadian orange juice” in grocery stores in early 2025.
Canada is not failing? 40 percent of manfucters that were polled told KPMG that they are actively looking to move production down south. 120,000 Canadian left Canada for good last year. 106,000 the year before that, and before tariffs. All thanks to the Lost Liberal Decade, where our resource sector was ignored, and where “carbon pricing” and virtue signaling were the priorities.
more good old liberal corruption at work
The nonsense people post. Canada is not failing. Even with Smith’s obvious support, Alberta separatism has been doomed to fail from the start. The Liberals aren’t openly corrupt and inept. The country is making real progress in reducing dependence on the U.S. market. The only real problem facing Canada is that we don’t have a credible opposition party. Harper’s decision to get rid of the progressive side of the Party to create the CPC left Canada with a right wing party so out of touch with the majority of Canadians that its only hope of electoral success came because we were fed up with Trudeau. That hope ended as soon as Carney took over the Liberals. That hope isn’t coming back because the extreme wing of the Conservative Party doesn’t understand why they’re out in the cold so they won’t make any changes to make themselves credible again. Even if we have a string of Liberal governments in future, we need a credible opposition. Let’s see if we get one.
just one of the liberal way to keep in power ,besides using paid media ,rig elections is to eliminate the other parties anyway possible. the billions of our tax dollars they wash though donations is just to good!!!
The Liberals have lost people also. The only reason they are still in power is because Singh destroyed the NDP just to help himself and Trudeau stay in power and then Carney had to bribe traitors to cross the floor to stay in power the thing with traitors is that they can’t be trusted. People come and people go if Carney had real confidence he is the one Canadians want he would call an election but he won’t.
Walker: So get the f—k out now. No one will care, and no one will miss you. Go to Russia. Oh, and your loser separatist buddies in Alberta are never going to win because they are just a loudmouthed lunatic fringe of a little over 20 percent. Perhaps you struggle with math, but the numbers don’t lie; that’s what conservatives do. No one is worried; we are just tired of your incessant whining, and a look forward to you losers being consigned to the dustbin of Canada’s history.
Good – once again Canada lacks real representation – and the “Conservatives” are completely ineffectual. Democracy is a scam.
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When Alberta gains independence there will never be another political party other than the Liberals to ever be in power again in Canada. So sad, Canada used to be a great country.
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Carney has lost 6 i believe so there’s that.
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The country is collapsing before our very eyes under our current government . The next closest party to replace and or fix our current situation you manipulate a story to portray an unstable party with unstable leadership. Global sure knows how to strip away any hope of a new beginning
The Liberal Fourth Reich is marching Elbows Up, Forearms over Eyes,Fingers in Ears straight into Stalingrad under the Noon Hour Sun.They are advancing with a false sense of security thinking “We got this !!! Let’s get naked and play in the snow for a while !”
Fools,they are.Soon the cold winter of economic collapse will strike them like “der Blitz” and they will be frozen in their tacks,holding their carrots like snowmen built by depraved degenerates.
Carney is a flop.Liberal party MPs are panicking because they know this is their last term as politicians. In the future people will laugh at their resumes say, “Oh you were part of the Trudeau, Carney Liberal Circus ? Ya,No thanks,we dont have any positions available for clowns.”
Carney and Brookfield will be circuiting the Courts for defrauding the Government and Trudeau will finally become the woman he always wanted to be while competing in Female Surfing Competitions.
The Liberals are on their way out.They may be popular now but once the effects of not having a trade deal begin to take effect,, the public will sour on them,as they did with the Pool Boy as leader,and in time they are going to get the middle finger up rather than elbows.This will be their last few years in power and then they will be reduced to the NDPs mud pen and it will be a Conservative majority with Pierre Poilievre as Prime Minister of Canada instead of Carney, subject of the Globalists.
Suck it up while you can Liberals. Your party is going to get tossed like a Cigarette in a Montreal gas station toilet !!!
Ben. The Liberals need a leader that can form his own policies, and doesn’t need to copy the platform of the Conservative leader.
The conservatives need a new leader.
We are inching closer and closer to a one-party system. At this rate the LPC will take a page from Putin’s book and lengthen terms to six years. When a politician completely swaps their ideology and joins the opposing party, you can guarantee there was plenty of money involved.
LMAO at Poilievre!
You have the story backwards. It’s not a Pierre losing people, it’s about a treasonous PM that is bribing them. Wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if it’s closer to blackmail than bribery.
The media loves to hold the Opposition to account while giving Government a virtual free pass.
Liberals would have been decimated had they and Singh not delayed the last election, and prorouged parliament instead of negotiating with the incoming Trump administration. They sacrificed our nation to save their party. We had no one negotiating for months, and for months they sabrerattled to turn an external threat into a viable way to secure votes.
And people clap and cheer the erosion of our democracy.
People worried about Pierre and Trump have cute nightmares.
Am I wrong or did the NDP not lose like 50-75% of it’s party to the Liberals?
Liberal democracy is teasing power over those without.
It’s super risky, but hey, the decisions are made by those that will never face the violence they incite.
I guess they win.
Pierre can’t win
Liberals have lost a few too, haven’t they?
Yes. Was it less than those that are paid less and have a smaller voice? Yes.
Liberal democracy is teasing power over those without.
the writing is on the wall.Will Mr. Poilevre take notice of it ?