Kathy Borrelli to be new Conservative candidate for Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 1:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Conservative Party of Canada has a caller but acquainted campaigner for the national riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore: Kathy Borrelli.

Borrelli replaces Mark McKenzie, who was removed arsenic the party's campaigner for the riding owed to arguable past comments connected the decease penalty.

As of 12 p.m. Friday, her sanction was inactive not listed connected Elections Canada web leafage for the riding.

But Borrelli's hubby — erstwhile Windsor metropolis councillor Paul Borrelli — announced his wife's candidacy successful a Facebook post, and Kathy Borrelli verbally confirmed her candidacy to CBC Windsor.

It's not wide what process resulted successful Borrelli becoming the campaigner to regenerate McKenzie. Prior to McKenzie's assignment successful precocious March, Borrelli was among the area's CPC members who sought the candidacy.

Several members had besides publically stated their hopes to regenerate McKenzie, specified arsenic Tige Melton and Victor Green.

Kathy Borrelli antecedently ran arsenic the CPC campaigner for the Windsor-Tecumseh riding successful Canada's 2021 national election.

She came successful 3rd successful that race, with her 14,605 votes placing her a fewer 1000 votes down Cheryl Hardcastle for the NDP and the victor — Irek Kusmierczyk for the Liberals.

McKenzie was pushed retired of the candidacy for Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore arsenic a effect of the emergence of an excerpt from a February 2022 drama podcast.

On the podcast, McKenzie stated helium was successful favour of the decease penalty, laughed astir nationalist hangings and the electrical chair, and suggested Justin Trudeau arsenic idiosyncratic deserving the decease penalty.

Nominations for candidates successful each ridings closes April 7.