With Scheer, Conservatives look back instead of forward

Generating fresh ideas, not party unity, is the real challenge for the Tories.

New Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer ran on promises to repeal funding from universities that did not protect free speech, provide a tax credit for home schooling, balance the budget within two years, repeal the Liberal government's carbon tax, and add property rights to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 31, 2017

OTTAWA—At least he’s no Trump. Thanks to Kevin O’Leary’s (ever more curious) decision to drop out of the Conservative leadership contest, Canadians will have Andrew Scheer as opposition leader, meaning they’ll be spared the experience of coping with an extremist or a vituperative, post-r...

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