Great essay. Thanks for writing it.

The country really needs a governing alternative to the Liberal Party and this iteration of the Conservative Party isn't it. It's taking on water while the sun is shining and the Liberal friendly media is not inclined to offer a life boat to the safe port of common sense.

It makes me wonder what kind of a mess it would be if the Conservatives WON the last federal election? As the writer notes, winning didn't help Premier Kenney. The "base" that decides who is a conservative and who is a nasty Liberal or NDP in camouflage took a good thing and ran it right into the ground. Premier Smith is facing the same problem today.

Winning government is always going to run through Ontario and is it too much to ask the hardliners out west to figure that out?