When Conservatives battle Conservatives

One of the odd things about politics is how quickly ideological allies can turn into enemies.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, pictured Sept. 18, 2020, on the Hill. Colin T. Brown, the chair of the National Citizens Coalition, one of Canada’s oldest conservative groups and an organization known for savagely assailing Liberals, recently posted a message on the NCC’s website that severely castigated Mr. Ford.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

June 10, 2021

OAKVILLE, ONT.—One of the odd things about politics is how quickly ideological allies can turn into enemies. Certainly, in the conservative world, for instance, right-wing advocacy groups will sometimes go from praising a political party one day to denouncing it the next. Case in point, Colin T....

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