Is the leadership race of one’s party more important than the general election?

The ‘system’ is dysfunctional and the process does not work. Change it. That’s the future, history paints an unflattering prospect for today though. Maybe next time.

Conservative leadership contenders Peter MacKay, Marilyn Gladu, and Erin O'Toole. The CPC has set the complicated bar for entry into the leadership contest high and with a $5-million campaign spending limit, every contender will need to enter the race with that goal in sight, writes Mark Wegierski. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARK WEGIERSKI

February 3, 2020

TORONTO—"Joe Clark, Stéphane Dion, and Andrew Scheer walk into a bar...” What's the punchline? “Everyone in the bar thought three other guys would be coming in first." What do political party leadership races, at least recently, in democracies we are familiar with, seem to have become? Hor...

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