‘Our strength is and always has been our freedom,’ Scheer tackles Trudeau, political correctness, and Bernier in first major keynote

'I think it is a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage,' the Conservative Leader said of calls to tear down statues of Sir John A. Macdonald.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, centre, with wife Jill and former Tory cabinet minister Peter MacKay.
In his keynote speech Friday Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer offered a catalogue of election-ready attacks aimed at a “virtue-signalling” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, attacking the Liberals on the carbon tax, deficits, in...

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