Conservatives are lost in translation

There are more Conservatives today—including in Quebec—who would trade a promise to become bilingual in time for the 2019 campaign for a bit of stardust than at any time since Harper resigned.

Conservative leadership contenders at a debate held in Greely, Ont., in November 2016. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

January 19, 2017

For a measure of how bad Tuesday's French-language Conservative leadership debate actually was, consider that Kevin O'Leary—the reality-show personality who has just joined the long list of contenders to succeed Stephen Harper—probably scored in absentia. If O'Leary h...

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