Conservative Party better get its act together if it wants to be great again, says former Mulroney cabinet minister

If the Conservative Party membership at large does not soon come to its senses and act, the once-great national institution will be in ruins, writes former Mulroney-era cabinet minister Tom McMillan in his upcoming book, Not My Party: The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper.

Then prime minister Stephen Harper, pictured Oct. 10, 2015, in Fredericton, N.B., campaigning during the 2015 election campaign. Tom McMillan says a broad swath of the Conservative Party is progressive but went underground during the Harper leadership years because they were intimidated to the point of paralysis by the power that the prime minister and his tight inner circle ruthlessly wielded over both the party and the government and, ultimately, the country. Many Tories just gave up.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

January 23, 2017

I myself believe a once-great national institution is in ruins, or will be if the Conservative Party membership at large does not soon come to its senses and act. I know from years of working in the political trenches, and now from corresponding with countless Conservatives across Canada for many mo...

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