What is happening to the Conservative Party of Canada?

The once-mainstream Conservative Party of Canada is in danger of turning into something ugly—a vehicle for intolerance, anger, harsh economic and social remedies, coloured by a sour mistrust of anyone who sees life differently.

Four Conservative leadership candidates Chris Alexander, Brad Trost, Kellie Leitch, and Pierre Lemieux showed up at an event last Wednesday in Toronto hosted by Ezra Levant and his website The Rebel Media, to attack motion M-103, the non-binding motion 'recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear' and 'condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination.' The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

February 20, 2017

GATINEAU, QUE.—The once-mainstream Conservative Party of Canada is in danger of turning into something ugly—a vehicle for intolerance, anger, harsh economic and social remedies, coloured by a sour mistrust of anyone who sees life differently. The question is whether moderate Conservatives, tradi...

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