Joe Clark should heed the wise words of John A Macdonald: those who yearn for a rightist lurch for the Progressive Conservative Party have forgotten its history

I was accredited as a student delegate to the PC Leadership Convention of 1948. I was not at the 1927, 1938 and 1942 conclaves but was an activist with varying degrees of involvement in the 1956, 1967, 1976 and 1993 gatherings.

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