At the Conservative Party convention, I met up with former MP Rob Anders to talk about the ideological split in the party. He names some likely candidates for the party executive battle who fit into the two main camps.
At the Conservative Party convention, I met up with former MP Rob Anders to talk about the ideological split in the party. He names some likely candidates for the party executive battle who fit into the two main camps.
With a new voting system, it’s time to become much more centrist and accommodating. The old Reform Party era far right/dark blue conservative is dead.
ROB ANDERS??? WTF!
I hope you can remove that RED STAIN and get back in
You called it as you and us seen it
Nice in theory, but it’s going to run into a brick wall of demographics. Trudeau lured more than a million dewey-eyed Millenials out of their parents basements, and there are another million available by 2019, almost a thousand a day turning 18 now. The old school social conservatives are becoming handily outnumbered by Millenials (being, generally, 50+, they are subject to the national attrition of any group of that age), who approve of Trudeau’s policies. The sort of people that would ordinarily naturally drift Right as they mature are mostly Gen X now and have very little patience for social conservatism and end up sticking with the Liberals when the CPC offers a disagreeable platform. That’s one of the drivers of the CPC’s sharp left turn (it’s also a reason Harper suppressed the SoCon factions, he realized he was doomed if he alienated those middle of the road types)- faced with demographics, they desperately need those 40-something Xers on board, but to do so have to stick to a purely small c, fiscal conservative platform.
Social conservatism is a small, yet very outspoken, minority in Canada. At the end of the day, you still only have one vote, exactly equal in weight to the 20 year old Woman’s Studies student at U of T.
You get that Trump is a social liberal right? If you are looking to him to make America socially conservative again, you are dreaming. He won’t win anyway. Primaries are one thing, general elections are another. He is hated too much by the masses.
If Harper was any more conservative – he would have lost by even more votes. You need to face facts – Canadians don’t want a social conservative running things.
I predict that Rempel will cross the floor to the Liberals first, as she is far more comfortable on the government side of the House. I’m sure JT can hand his first Alberta MP something bright and shiny to play with.
Everyone is going to be so sick of Trudeau’s spending and social restructuring bullshit by the next election that the path for the Conservatives will be clear. They need to remember that and vote in a leader who can be a true Conservative , because that is what people will be looking for. Somebody is going to have to clean up Justins mess.
Shouldn’t you be a good little Bonobo Chimp and hump a log or a hole in the ground somewhere? You’re behind on your orgasms.
A massive purge is coming that will make the CPC a clearly left-wing party and with an agenda to match.
A federal carbon tax is coming and the CPC will be onside with whatever the Liberals introduce. Very dark days are coming.
I am hard pressed to find one that I would trust.
The problem comes in the new red cons actually abandoning classic liberal ideals of inclusive democracy and populism and grass roots control for a litany of radical left ideals requiring big government statism and top down organization – essentially the antithesis of tmoderate conservatism and moderate Liberalism. They will tear the big tent apart, and I’m not so sure that isn’t their intention.