The Tories seem to have deserted the public stage altogether
Despite their tepid campaign, however, the Tories did elect 119 members. This is not a small force. Why, with such numbers, the party and its leader haven’t been out every day since the vote — challenging the Liberals on various policies, highlighting the slow return of Parliament and making the case for alternative perspectives on the host off issues facing the public — is more than a puzzle.
In other words, this is a time when Canada needs the presence and force of a full and determined Opposition. Yet what we have received is the opposite. It’s hard to think of a period when the Opposition party has been less engaged and less a factor in the national conversation. O’Toole should take a real stand. He should reject bad environmental policies that threaten to put Canadians out of work. He should champion Alberta and the Canadian resource industries in general. He should condemn the carbon tax. He should reject the outsourcing of Canadian energy policies to the mandarins of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the international anti-oil brigades.
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