Thursday, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Portage-Lisgar M.P. Candice Bergen will continue in her role as Conservative House Leader.

"I'm really pleased and grateful that Andrew Scheer has asked me to continue as our house leader in the House of Commons," said Bergen. "I've enjoyed doing it over the last year, and I think I've been very good at it in that we've been able to really push the Liberals back on a number of issues. I know that a lot of that happens when we're in the House of Commons."

She notes they left the House of Commons in June with a lot of momentum, and rose for the summer with quite a solid performance. Bergen says they forced the Liberals to forego many of the changes they were planning. She adds examples include forcing the Liberals to not change the time the Prime Minister's in the House to only one hour each week to answer questions, as well as holding him to account on many ethical lapses.

Bergen notes she looks forward to returning the House where they can hold Trudeau to account for other issues including the reported payment of $10.5-million to Omar Khadr. She says there are issues with the economy, deficit, and massive spending Trudeau's incurred that also need to be addressed. Bergen explains these are issues the Conservatives have gained momentum in tackling.

She says the Conservatives have a strong caucus, and have grown its membership to almost 260,000 members, adding with Andrew Scheer at the helm they're optimistic about being a government in waiting to defeat the Liberals in 2019.