Andrew Scheer didn’t deserve to stay but he tried his darnedest. When you lose at the big game – you’re done. The Conservatives had a chance especially since Justin Trudeau ran into ethical trouble with black-brown face but Scheer stuck with a low-bro, hack campaign with Shitty ideas, with little sense of where the Canada is today. Voters rightly chose Liberals in a strong minority Govt. Another one Bites the Dust!

TORONTO – Tories are in the midst of house cleaning after leader Andrew Scheer resigned earlier this week or was forced out with the party-funds-for-his –kids-education scandal.

In the wake of Scheer’s resignation, the party has fired it’s executive director for approving the use of party funds to pay for the private schooling of Scheer’s children, Global News reported.

The Conservative Party is also now bringing in a forensic auditor to review spending arrangements by the Conservative Fund.

As Global News was the first to report on Thursday, Scheer resigned after news erupted within the party earlier this week that he had been getting reimbursed by donor money to pay for the cost of putting four of his five children in private school.

Dustin van Vugt, the executive director of the party who has now been fired, said on Thursday in a statement that he had approved the use of party funds to reimburse Scheer for the cost of his children’s private schooling.

He said it was only a reimbursement of the difference between the cost of their schooling in Regina versus Ottawa.

But multiple Conservative sources told Global News that members of the Conservative Fund did not know about the arrangement and were furious to learn of it earlier this week, with many also worried about how the deal would look to voters.

The Conservative caucus had earlier called a sudden meeting on Parliament Hill. According to Conservative caucus chair Tom Kmiec, after less than an hour behind closed doors, the caucus voted unanimously that Scheer should stay on as interim leader until a suitable replacement is found, reported CTV News.

But whether that will still be the case with the party now that this party funds scandal has led to the firing of their top personnel?

During his Commons address Scheer said that serving as leader of the party that he loves “has been the opportunity, challenge of a lifetime.”

Trudeau said that Scheer “has shown tremendous strength and compassion” through “tragedies, difficulties, victories, and more challenging moments.”

“I very much wish him all the very, very best in his next and exciting steps, whatever they be,” said Trudeau.

His decision to resign comes after it was revealed that the money provided by the federal party overseen by a board of senior Conservatives including former prime minister Stephen Harper— was used to cover the difference in cost for private schooling for his kids in Ottawa, versus what it was when they lived in Regina.

While the party says the offer to cover costs associated with “being a national leader,” was all above board, some are questioning why it was not disclosed to party members.

Because of the disappointing election loss for the party, Scheer was set to face a mandatory leadership review at the party convention in April, but in recent weeks there was mounting pressure from party insiders for Scheer to step aside sooner.

He was also inundated with questions about the fact that he still held dual Canadian and American citizenship, despite having begun the process of evoking it. Asked why he hadn’t mentioned this earlier, Scheer said it was because he was “never asked.”

Among the high-profile voices were former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay, who compared Scheer’s election loss to “having a breakaway on an open net and missing the net,” but later said he supported Scheer, to Harper’s former director of communications Kory Teneycke saying that Scheer’s position on same-sex marriage “could be fatal” to his future as leader and that he’d be gone before the April review.

Then came the formation of an anti-Scheer group called “Conservative Victory,” focused on mobilizing support to call for Scheer’s ouster. To counter this, a “Stand with Scheer” group emerged as a counterpoint, promoting the support he still had within his caucus.

Scheer, the MP for Regina-Qu’Appelle, Sask. since 2004, was elected the Conservative party leader in 2017, following a hard-fought and crowded leadership competition, reported CTV News.