Profound concern with Conservative Party direction at Centre Ice event

The organizers of this conference are adamant they do not want to start a new party. The conservative movement has been down that path before, resulting in three easy Liberal majorities in a row.

Many at the Aug. 11 conference felt, I would suggest, a profound concern that the conversation prompted by Pierre Poilievre, pictured, and the direction he wants to take the party has little to do with traditional Canadian Conservatism, writes Chisholm Pothier. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHISHOLM POTHIER

August 17, 2022

There were a lot of topics discussed at the recent Centre Ice Conservatives conference in Edmonton, Alta.: economy, foreign policy, domestic, and global security, reconciliation, and inclusiveness. All, refreshingly, from an adult perspective on what is good policy for a conservative movement. For ...

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