Reading Time: 3 minutes Just when you think you have Canadian politics figured out, you still never know what you are going to get
Tag: Conservative Party
The Meech Lake Accord and the destruction of a political party
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Mulroney’s insistence on crafting constitutional change went from master stroke to the death of the Progressive Conservative Party
Future Tory leader must look to the past for role models
Reading Time: 3 minutes If the next Conservative Party of Canada leader doesn’t maintain and build on the Mulroney-Harper legacy, he or she is doomed to failure
Good riddance to vulgarian Kevin O’Leary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like Donald Trump, O’Leary seems to like to say whatever mean, rotten, cruel thing pops into his head, equating notoriety with support
Parties that obsess on getting elected have no reason to exist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sadly, as they get close to power, rhetoric overpowers principles and charisma overtakes substance
A multi-candidate Tory leadership race from another era
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fifty years ago the Tories selected Robert Stanfield from a large roster of candidates to replace John Diefenbaker. Stanfield went on to lose to Pierre Trudeau
Conservatives should distance themselves from Beyak
Reading Time: 3 minutes Senator’s twisted perspective on residential schools and the horrible suffering students went through should not be accepted by the party or other Canadians
Scott Gilmore (who?) and his meaningless crusade to save conservatism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Claiming that only some Canadian conservatives are on the moral high ground will cause short-term frustration and long-term division
One step forward, two steps back for the Conservatives
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Conservatives will soon have a new leader but divisive politics have dragged the party away from Stephen Harper’s winning fundamentals
When you dangle a political carrot, someone will take a bite
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kevin O’Leary was right about voter fraud, but his mudslinging has also opened the door to further Tory leadership campaign nastiness and that serves no one