Conservatives best placed to continue to benefit from Bloc’s demise

To score a win on June 18, Andrew Scheer did not reinvent the wheel. He borrowed a page from Brian Mulroney’s handbook and made overtures to nationalist voters fleeing the Bloc’s civil war.
Conservatives welcomed newly-elected Conservative MP Richard Martel at last week's caucus meeting on the Hill.
Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are not going to allow Justin Trudeau to rebuild a Liberal fortress in Quebec without a fight: that’s just one of the messages from Monday’s Chicoutimi-Le Fjord’s byelection upset. And some of the other messages—in particular for the New Democrats—are more a...

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