As conservatives across Canada reacted to the fall of Jason Kenney, a defining voice in their political movement, a Liberal from the Tory heartland offered an outsider’s diagnosis into the state of conservatism in the country.
“Mr. Kenney was pushed out of his party because he wasn’t extreme enough,” Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault, an Edmonton MP, declared Thursday.
“It’s time for the moderates in conservative movements in this country to step up and ask themselves: Where is this train going?”
Huh? O’Toole was a case of false advertising and Kenney won the confidence vote but decided to push himself out. Certainly in the CPC’s case not one of the current leadership candidates will be able to alter the party’s leftward tilt.
