MacKay blames Conservative election loss on Scheer’s social conservatism
“To use a good Canadian analogy, it was like having a breakaway on an open net and missing the net,” MacKay said.
OPINION | Andrew Scheer’s narrow vision of conservatism was his party’s failing: Opinion | CBC News
Building a broad tent is how the Conservatives, in this social climate, with these sorts of regional divisions, will be successful. It’s a vision that includes both pipelines and pride parades.
It is unclear if Andrew Scheer is capable of leading his party in that direction, but the results of last night’s election suggest it will be a tough slog. He will spend the next few days downplaying his loss. He reminded his supporters last night that Stephen Harper first erased Paul Martin’s majority, then went on to lead a Conservative government for nearly 10 years. He will also reiterate that his party won the popular vote (34.4 per cent compared to the Liberals’ 33.1 per cent, at last tally).
Klein to Small-C Conservatives: Your Leaders Aren’t Rising to the Challenge – The Energy Mix
“You, who take pride in your country and are committed to protecting your children and grandchildren. You, who have faith in our innovative capacity. You, who treasure good governance and care about national security. Yeah, you,” he writes, in a recent opinion piece for The Tyee.
“I’m afraid it is time to abandon your so-called conservative ‘leaders’. These deniers who throw temper tantrums when told we need to take urgent action in the face of the climate emergency. These people don’t deserve you, and they don’t hold a candle to the conservative leaders of the Second World War—the last time our nation faced an existential threat.”
Conservatives snub surveys on climate policy; other parties give full responses
In both surveys, the Conservative party declined to answer questions and instead provided a brief blanket statement summarizing its climate plan. The party didn’t respond to the network at all until after a query from The Canadian Press.
“It’s a clear sign that they’re not taking this issue very seriously,” said network spokeswoman Catherine Abreu.
The 2019 election is playing out as a policy clone of the 2015 campaign | CBC News
It’s a commitment
that might stir some nostalgia. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives
identified reducing wait times as one of their top five priorities
during the 2006 election. Once in government, the Conservatives
committed $700 million in funding and signed agreements with the
provinces.
Then everyone, including the Harper government, forgot about it.
Thirteen years later, with the Conservatives trying to get back into power, the issue of wait times is back on the agenda.
It’s
one of several familiar tunes on the party’s playlist. Indeed,
the early stages of Andrew Scheer’s campaign have sounded, at times,
like a medley of some of Stephen Harper’s greatest hits.