The Conservative Party does not want embattled MP Helena Guergis to run in the next election, 麻豆影视 has learned.
A senior Tory source called Guergis a "problem candidate" and said the party is looking for a new candidate in the Simcoe-Grey riding in central Ontario,
Guergis attended the Conservative riding association's annual general meeting on Saturday, and said the meeting "went very well."
"I had an opportunity to see my many supporters," she said before being whisked away in a minivan.
The meeting was closed to both the media and the public.
Few of the 50 or so who attended the meeting were willing to speak to the media.
"You don't deserve a comment," one man told reporters.
Guergis was stripped of her cabinet job and booted from the Tory caucus two weeks ago after a series of damaging allegations were levelled at her and her husband, former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.
She and her husband have disputed the allegations, which range from illegal lobbying to tax evasion.
In her rare public appearance Saturday, Guergis said she would not comment on the allegations.
"It's really not appropriate for me to be answering, I know, the many questions that you do have," she told reporters.
"I am anxious to answer those questions, but I will not be doing that right now."
Andy Beaudoin, the association's outgoing secretary, said the MPs status was not discussed at the meeting.
"She is still the riding's Conservative candidate and people want it to stay that way," he said.
"My sense is that all of the people who were here today, or at least most of them if not all, would be very loyal to our present MP," Beaudoin said. "I'm confident that Helena Guergis is going to be exonerated on any kind of allegations that have been levelled at her."
Guergis sits as an Independent MP but has yet to appear in the House of Commons since she was kicked out of the Tory caucus.
The ethics commissioner is now investigating more claims against her and her husband, making it unlikely that she will return to Parliament Hill anytime soon.
With a report from CTV's Daniele Hamamdjian
