Canadian conservatism: a dry well?

Canada’s conservative movement, once a wealth of ideas and led by people like former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, is now a movement incapable of understanding or trusting medicine, science, mathematics, technology, and innovation. Has Canadian conservatism run its course? Perhaps it’s a well run dry.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured in the House on April 29, 2020. Conservatives should be supporting more progressive public policy issues, argues Clinton Desveaux.

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