Fans of Sabrina Maddeaux queued up online Thursday to express their disappointment after the former National Post columnist announced she was suspending her bid for the Conservative nomination in Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill. An excellent communicator who did very fine work in these pages covering the housing crisis, which is currently Canada’s crisis-in-chief and a leading preoccupation for party leader Pierre Poilievre, Maddeaux seemed like someone the party would at the very least like to give a fair shake.