Memo to Conservatives: get your act together

The Conservatives could be writing their own 'decade of darkness' script by going down another rat hole, where nostalgia for what was clouds the reality of what is.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured at a post-election Conservative caucus meeting at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building on Oct. 5. Given the current pace at which things are happening in Conservative circles, both the leader and the party could be a withered, weakened body crippled by their own hands when next a writ is dropped, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

November 17, 2021

OTTAWA—Now I have some sense of what it felt like to be a columnist—and I use that term loosely—in the early 2000s, the last time Canada’s national conservatives were having an identity crisis. Then, as now, it seems a few days can’t go by without some internal conflict spilling out into t...

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