One year on, a report card on Andrew Scheer’s Conservative leadership

Tories shouldn’t be popping champagne corks yet, but the fact they’re still bringing in bucks, at a decent spot in the polls, and not carving themselves up, is proof of Scheer’s steady hand.

Andrew Scheer’s first year at the helm has been marked by a steadiness—something that is not common for a Conservative Party leader after an electoral defeat, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

May 30, 2018

OTTAWA—This isn’t a love letter from a delusional former hard-core partisan or an attempt at butt-kissing the Conservative leader. Qualifications aside, as Andrew Scheer passes the one-year mark of his leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, he has done a solid job. But Conservatives sh...

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