I sure hope more women run for the Conservative leadership

Can we, Conservatives, really be all that surprised that the left has quite successfully been able to persuade voters to believe the stereotype that we're a party of old, white men?

Andrew Scheer, pictured in Toronto on May 27, 2017, after winning the Conservative Party leadership with 50.9 per cent of the vote and on the 13th ballot. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHELLE COATES MATHER

January 20, 2020

OTTAWA—A quick Google search of women and conservative policy in Canada prompts a link to “Conservative women," a subpage buried deep on the Conservative Party of Canada’s website. In this link, the author reflects how the left often describes Conservatives as the party of “old, white men�...

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