Scheer’s exit important and predictable

The CPC was wrong back in 2015 and it is wrong now. Like it or lump it, it needs a policy do-over from top to bottom.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured Nov. 28, 2019, with his new deputy leader Leona Alleslev, a former Liberal MP who the crossed floor to the Conservatives in the last Parliament and was re-elected as a Conservative. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

December 16, 2019

HALIFAX—Andrew Scheer’s departure is as important as it was predictable: for the second time since Stephen Harper stepped down as leader, the CPC will get a chance to remake itself. In 2017, it flubbed the opportunity. That year’s convention was messy and dishonest. Nearly 1,400 dubious memb...

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