… And no, I am not back-ending this column into a pro-Erin-O’Toole manifesto (it’s too late for that, anyway). Historically, the Conservatives have recruited much of their young talent from the ranks of right-leaning business owners, activists, lawyers and community leaders. But the post-Harper years have marked what is basically a steady renunciation of almost every identifiably conservative idea or principle that might be seized upon as grist for aforesaid Liberal (and media) demagoguery.
