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What's the future for the Conservative Party?

Johnny Au said:
Who's the true Canadian?
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Not Scheer, we already know he's a Yank. Him and Tam could both be CCP spies for all we know.

Speaking of CCP spies, the whole damn federal government can't get their tongue out of Winnie The Pooh's arse so I'm not sure why Dr Tam is being suspected in this specific situation.

You want a conspiracy theory? What if the Cons are working in concert with the government to deflect off the government's obvious links with the CCP. Scapegoat: Dr Tam.
 
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It's been a rough six or seven weeks for most Canadians. Politically, it's been especially tough time for the Conservative Party and its outgoing leader, Andrew Scheer.

Three polls conducted in the last two weeks (by Léger, Abacus Data and the Angus Reid Institute) find the Liberals with an average lead of nine percentage points over the Conservatives among decided voters.

A survey by Research Co. conducted in mid-April found that just 25 per cent of respondents thought Scheer would definitely or probably do a better job than Trudeau in handling the crisis. Just over half said he would do a worse job — including 31 per cent of people who voted for him in the last election.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-polls-covid19-1.5548237
 
Man, these guys are lame.

The Green Party also has a leadership contest going. Glen Murray just announced he'll be joining, but that's whatever.......I like this Annamie Paul. She was the Green candidate in Toronto Centre and lost to The Honourable Minister For Large Family Business and Tax Havens, er, I mean Finance. Sorry about that....he makes it confusing.

Anyway, I don't know much about her but she's done some work with the ICC and some other international organisations so she's just my kind of person. I'm not too keen on the "eco-socialist" candidates thus far, mostly because as much as I am a bit of a hippie, I'm pretty seriously torn between that and my Radical Centrist liberal side.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Perhaps, perhaps. None can kill my social libertarianism though, so who knows.

Anyway, I think the Greens will have much more interesting policy ideas and characters come out of their race and I'm not just saying that as a past and future Green, either. Or maybe I am.
 
SunriseChampion said:
.....is exactly what we need right now!

Kim Campbell should just storm in and take over the show. I'd vote for her. She's quite reasonable.
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The person who is partly responsible for sabotaging her 1993 election chances by approving ads that mock Chrétien's mouth is currently running the city.
 
Johnny Au said:
The person who is partly responsible for sabotaging her 1993 election chances by approving ads that mock Chrétien's mouth is currently running the city.
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What city?

Is she? That's good.

Anyway, she's quite reasonable now....1993 was....um, 30 years ago (almost).

If what I did when I was 20 is held against me when I'm 50 then just shoot me now, thanks....in the head though.
 
SunriseChampion said:
What city?
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The city in question is the focus of this very website.

Heading into the 1993 election, the Progressive Conservatives were beset by many problems, notably the then-ongoing recession, the unpopular Goods and Services Tax, and loss of support to the recently-formed Reform Party and Bloc Québécois. While the party was initially optimistic about being able to at least retain second place, its support had dropped badly in the final weeks of the campaign. Realizing that without something dramatic the Liberals were certain to win a majority government, the PC campaign leaders decided to launch a group of four ads attacking Chrétien and his record.

PC campaign director John Tory (yes, the same person who is currently mayor of Toronto) was mainly responsible for deciding to launch the ads, along with Allan Gregg, a pollsterwho was one of the top campaign managers. Gregg had launched a series of attack ads in the last days of the 1988 election to great effect. The new ads were produced quickly, and few in the party, including Prime Minister and PC leader Kim Campbell, who was on the campaign trail, saw them before they were aired.[1]

The controversial ad was the second in a series of four; the first ad was a strong attack, but not much worse than ads aired by the Liberals or the Reform Party attacking the Progressive Conservatives and their record. The ads as a whole were designed to leverage Campbell's personal popularity, which was still higher than that of Chrétien.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Chrétien_attack_ad
 
Wow, sorry, I read your post completely wrong as you having implied that Kim Cambell was currently running a city somewhere.

Don't worry, I'll be alright. ;)

Thanks for clearing that up. I will get some sleep tomorrow, after the work's week is done.
 
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