Time for new thinking about old parties

Some eternal verities are not so eternal after all—and that includes the present-day Conservative Party as a dominant force in federal politics. Increasingly, it speaks for a disappearing Canada. Some day the polls may catch up.

Outgoing Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured on May 27, 2017, shortly after winning the party's leadership in Toronto. Instead of offering a refurbished Conservatism for the times—more inclusive, honest and closer to mainstream social values—Mr. Scheer functions like a sniper, constantly on the lookout for Liberal misdeeds, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

July 27, 2020

CHELSEA, QUE.—Why do so many people—media, pundits, pollsters, and casual followers of politics—assume that Conservatives are the default governing party when the Liberals wobble? What has this bad-tempered, shrinking coalition of warmed-over Thatcherites and grumpy social conservatives done t...

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