How About Postponing the Election of the New Leader?

Thursday, 23  February 2017

If the present government keeps going the way it is, my bet is that the next election will be for the Conservatives to lose.

But, barring a big cock-up by the government, the Conservatives don’t have much of a chance, if any, to win if they proceed with the election of the leader now.

The sheer number of candidates is enough to tell you, that the party lacks of depth and strength.

And the candidacies prove the startling absence of candidates able to carry the party to electoral victory.

Clearly, it is time to search and secure an outside candidate who can be the unanimous choice of the delegates, the Conservatives at large and of the swing voters and can unite the party. It is time to look for a Conservative Trudeau, not to mention Saint. Laurent and Mulroney.

The Conservative Party owes the Canadian electorate the moral duty to provide it with a credible choice and the opportunity to vote for a promising alternative to the Liberal Party.

A decision to carry on with the election process amounts to a serious breach of this duty, not to mention the inevitable prospect of condemning themselves to warm the opposition benches. 

So why not postpone the leadership convention; let Rona Ambrose carry on as interim Leader and go outside the caucus and find a candidate with intellectual heft; intellectually honest and principled; if not charismatic, at least quite likeable; a person in whom Canadians will be able instinctively to place their trust.

Such a candidate will not only be able to marshal the unanimous votes of the delegates, unite the party to trigger the renaissance of the Conservative Party? Who knows, he or she may be able to restore the word “Progressive” to the name of the Party.