Tories to Announce Next Leader ‘With a Revised Program’ Reflecting Queen’s Death

A man is silhouetted walking past a Conservative Party logo before the opening of the Party's national convention in Halifax on Aug. 23, 2018. The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese

The Conservative party says the event announcing the next leader scheduled for Saturday will go ahead as planned, but in a more muted way.

The Queen’s death prompted the party to rethink the event, given how it will fall in the official mourning period.