No new information yet, but Helena Guergis was at the Annual General Meeting of the Simcoe Grey Federal Conservatives Saturday at the Legion in New Lowell.
Guergis briefly addressed the media before jumping into a nearby van.
Before the meeting, media was told to stay off the legion property and parking lot, which had about 30 cars in it.
One of the entrances to the parking lot was also blocked off by a truck and a car.
Guergis says that it isn’t appropriate for her to be answering questions that everyone has about the controversy swirling around her.
She says that although she’s anxious to answer everyone’s questions, she won’t be yet.
Guergis says that today was just an annual general meeting that she looks forward to every year, and she had an opportunity to see her many supporters.
Riding Association member Kim Ellison says that he came to today’s meeting with a different opinion of the Helena Guergis affair than he left with.
He says that the media coverage gave him a skewed opinion, and adds that everyone has to let the process run it’s course.
Ellison says that it’s now up to the Prime Minister, RCMP and the Ethics Commissioner to decide whether Guergis should be charged, thrown out, or reinstated.
He says that no candidate information was discussed at the meeting, and adds that because Simcoe Grey has a very strong riding association, and could have a new candidate if it was deemed that they need one.
But Ellison quickly added that Helena Guergis is their candidate now, and that the meeting really cleared things up for him as well.
Whether Guergis can be a Conservative candidate in the next federal election is up for question, since she has been excused from the Conservative caucus, and currently has to sit as an independent.
Guergis has not yet shown up for parliament to take her new seat in the house.
Even if Simcoe Grey’s riding association chooses Guergis to represent them again, the Prime Minister, as leader of the party, would have to approve her nomination.
The day after she was removed from caucus by Stephen Harper, Riding Association Past President Andy Beaudoin said ‘Why not?’ when asked whether Guergis was still the Conservative candidate for Simcoe Grey.