Ideas, policy, and party leaders

Pierre Poilievre’s rise tells us that the Conservative Party of today, like the Liberal Party, is not the party it once was.

Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest are the top-tier aspirants. Second-tier candidates include Leslyn Lewis and Patrick Brown. The others, if they can raise the money to stay in the race, will probably be also-rans; their public profile is low, too low to gather the momentum and sign up the new party members necessary to win, writes Nelson Wiseman. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY NELSON WISEMAN

April 7, 2022

TORONTO—The Conservatives and the NDP are poles apart on policy, but they share a common feature: ideological principles drive them. Both parties have internal divisions, but the disagreements are about the ideas that ought to sustain their party. Ideology energizes the emotions of Conservative an...

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