WTF is with the CPC and the WEF?

The Conservative Party of Canada is playing footsie with conspiracy theories.

As much as Canadian liberals try to insist otherwise, the Conservative Party of Canada is not nearly as right-wing as the Republican Party in the United States.

The Tories and the GOP have found common ground on several issues in the past, especially where foreign policy and defence are concerned, and most socially conservative Canadians end up supporting the CPC more or less by default. Opponents of abortion and same-sex marriage are a minority within the Conservative party (again, contrary to what #TruAnon would have you believe) but they’re at least tolerated, kind of like the relatives you try to avoid on Thanksgiving.

But despite some regional variations¹ the Overton Window for Canadian politics is a few degrees left of its US equivalent, though not as far left as Europe. (And the difference between “left” and “right” in Europe and in North Amer…