Conservative leadership candidates should stop parroting Trump

A skilled communicator like Trump found fertile soil to sell his demagogueries with American voters. In Canada, we don’t have such populist communicators and, more importantly, there is no need for one.

Maxime Bernier is one of Conservative leadership candidates who has the right idea of not trying to be another Trump but is focused on what his presidency means for Canada, writes Angelo Persichilli.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

January 23, 2017

TORONTO—Conservative leadership candidates should stop parroting Donald Trump, stop chasing extreme fringe supporters to generate headlines, and instead promote an agenda that will help Canada to deal with the Trump presidency. Trumpism is not a movement and it has no ideas or political agenda. ...

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