Party civil wars and why they happen

If you’re battling out in the trenches, if your career or reputation is on the line, if your campaign is sinking, it’s hard to accept the idea that you should gracefully lose for the sake of some partisan 'common good.'

It’s easy for somebody like interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, who actually isn’t in the leadership race herself and who has nothing to lose personally, to hover above the fray and lecture, as she recently did, all the leadership candidates about the strategic importance of speaking with 'one united voice.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

April 3, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Back in the summer of 2010, while working in America, I responded to a sincerely offered peace initiative with an equally sincere declaration of war. And no, I wasn’t a diplomat. Rather, I was part of a U.S. Republican Senatorial primary campaign team and the “peace initiative...

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