Gilmore still hasn’t tackled the hard part of politics

How will his new political entity raise the funds necessary to establish itself and then to keep it going? Raising money is the most difficult job in all of politics.

Maclean's columnist Scott Gilmore has created some waves with his efforts to rework the Conservative Party, or create a new right-of-centre party. However, Gerry Nicholls writes that there's a lot more to politics than finding people who agree with you.Photograph courtesy of Scott Gilmore

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

September 4, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—One of the easiest things to be in the world is a computer-keyboard political strategist. Any columnist or journalist or blogger can tap out a 750- to 900-word opus outlining some sort of brilliant plan to fix what’s wrong with politics. Heck, I could write up a column like that...

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