Out of touch and out of gas: where are post-Harper Conservatives headed?

Absent Harper, one has to wonder whether anyone else can hold the conservative movement together.
Declared Conservative leadership candidates, clockwise from top left: Kellie Leitch, Deepak Obhrai, Tony Clement, Brad Trost, Maxime Bernier, and Michael Chong.
OTTAWA—I always thought Preston Manning was done as champion of the restive western-driven Reform party the day he changed his mind and decided to move into Stornoway, the official opposition leader’s residence. Manning had previously said the modest mansion in upscale Rockcliffe Park should be ...

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