How Conservatives missed a golden opportunity to broaden their tent cdnpoli
show many Canadians are open to voting for a centre-right party — Brian Mulroney’s crushing big-tent majorities make that point.
But instead of a contest where different ideas are explored — how to reach out to the suburbs, to urban Canadians, young people, and women on issues such as climate change, health care delivery, and taxation — the party designed a race to appeal to its narrow base. And it’s turning into one that is pushing the presumed front-runners — MacKay and O’Toole — further away from the electorate.
To be fair to the party, there were a lot of factors playing into the organizing committee’s decision to have a short contest. The caucus was antsy. Many MPs wanted to dump Scheer and have a new leader quickly. Some argued that there being a minority government required the party to be election ready, something it could not be with a lame duck leader. .
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