Two political parties in a trenchcoat
The Conservative Party of Canada is tearing itself apart over vaccines and lockdowns.
I’ve met Marilyn Gladu at some Conservative Party events. She was very nice, seemed pretty intelligent and from all indications is a dedicated representative for Sarnia, Ontario.
And I want her expelled from the party, yesterday:
Leader Erin O’Toole once again finds himself knocked off message, this time by a “civil liberties” splinter group within his own party. (Dan Gardner finds it so curious that said “civil liberties” activists are not concerned with, say, drug legalization or criminal justice reform. Curious indeed.)
The CPC was founded by a merger of the historic centre-right Progressive Conservative Party, which had recovered somewhat from the 1993 disaster but was still primarily confined to Eastern Canada, and the populist-right Canadian Alliance, which was dominant in the West but gained little ground east of Ontario.
Stephen Harper was somehow able to hold the coalition together, but after Justin Turdeau’s victory in the 2015 election, these two wings of the party have been cats in a bag.
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