As we all know, the Conservative Party has gone out of its way to limit involvement in their staged Leadership Convention planned for late this June.
In fact, they have done so well at that, there are now more out than in. In fact, there is only one serious candidate in the game - Peter MacKay and pundits are now calling June's fiasco a "Coronation".
That said, neither my wife nor I will vote for him and more on that in a later blog.
Strangely, one of the most sought after candidates was Lisa Raitt but she apparently believed her french was too weak to enter the fray. She became co-chair of the Party's Leadership Convention so what this tells me is that we are all most fortunate that she did not run and even worse - win the Convention. Obviously she suffers from faulty judgement.
I have said it before and will say it here again - the Conservative Party simply got the cart before the horse. They needed to have an open Policy Convention first with long time tories present and not the thousands that come on at the last minute at the behest of the leadership candidates. I can just hear the Lisas now - but 'what if Prime Minister Trudeau called a snap election - we'd be caught flat-footed'.
To that I would reply with two things - first I do not see Young Trudeau being so crass to do that and second- even if he did - our Party has a Leader by the name of Andrew Sheer. He could not possibly run an inept campaign twice in a row.
And I well remember his father taking a walk in the snow and resigning only to take up the reins once again when the hapless Joe Clark Government was defeated in 1979. Trudeau Sr. then when on to win a vast majority the following year.
History does have a tendency to repeat itself. Maybe it is the Conservatives' time.
As I See It...
K.D. Bell
