Four reasons why Conservative Party should leave Andrew Scheer right where he is

Rather than a new beginning for a hopelessly outdated party, the leadership hopefuls wallowed in platitudes that Stephen Harper might have scribbled on a napkin during a long and particularly tedious plane ride.

CPC leadership contenders Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole, Leslyn Lewis, and Derek Sloan took part in their French and English televised debates on June 17 and June 18 in Toronto. How do you hold a debate in Canada’s other official language when all four candidates would be puzzled by cereal-box French, let alone a real conversation with a real voter from Quebec, asks Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, file photo, and photographs courtesy of Twitter

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

June 22, 2020

HALIFAX—There are four reasons the Conservative Party of Canada should leave Andrew Scheer right where he is. All of them were were on display in last week’s televised “leadership” debates in the person of the candidates themselves. The debates, like the party’s 10-thumbed leadership itse...

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