Charest has uncommon gravitas. He remembers when Canadian politics mattered, when existential issues hung in the balance
In slightly different circumstances, the idea of the Conservative Party of Canada installing Jean Charest as leader might carry an unsavoury whiff of Joe Clark’s second coming. Surely a healthy party needn’t defrost a former leader, 21 years removed from the job. Surely impressive candidates of subsequent generations should be lining up in droves.
The aforementioned pundits will like that Charest is staunchly pro-choice: as Quebec Premier he called abortion an “inalienable right.
He remembers what politics was like before it was designed mostly to generate the maximum Twitter outrage
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