Commentary
If I said I enjoyed the Conservative Party leadership debate at the Canada Strong and Free conference in Ottawa on May 5, you might begin to doubt my sanity, your own, or both. And yes, I’d normally prefer to undergo a root canal than endure such a thing, because they typically confirm that if the people who would lead us ever had an idea, it was long ago and they won’t let it happen again. But this one was informative, possibly because it wasn’t run by the usual consortium.
Five of six official candidates showed up, which already revealed that something strange is going on with Patrick Brown, trying to sign up members with surreptitiously tailored promises to ethnic communities rather than some open appeal to the common good. So you can scratch him off your card.
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