Conservative leadership has dramatically set back party

It has revealed the once-great Conservative Party of Canada to be nasty, brutish and short-sighted.
Some of the Conservative leadership candidates pictured at a leadership debate: Chris Alexander, Maxime Bernier, Andrew Scheer, Erin O'Toole, Lisa Raitt, Andrew Saxton, Michael Chong, Brad Trost, and Deepak Obhrai.
TORONTO—Can you lose by winning? It’s not a riddle, it’s a fair question. Surveying the wreckage that now litters the Conservative landscape, it’s a timely question, too. Because, make no mistake: the Conservatives’ leadership race has dramatically set back their party, perhaps for years...

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