‘We’re a big country, and there are not many occasions when the big players can actually get together’ 

Preston Manning talks about ‘the movement’ ahead of this week’s Manning Conference. ‘There are different flavours of conservatism. We’re constantly working on how do you keep them all under the one big blue tent.’

It’s been described as a high school reunion, or “Woodstock for conservatives.”  The annual Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa brings the political right from across the country to Ottawa to discuss “the movement,” as Manning Centre founder Preston Manning...

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