Commentary Yet another candidate has lurched into the federal Conservative Party leadership contest boasting about the winnability of his winning winnery. It is not clear whether Canadians’ appetite for such cliches, such as it was, has diminished. But since the Ukraine crisis seems to have opened an Overton window to more serious discussion, here’s a free speechwriting sample for Patrick Brown, Jean Charest, Pierre Poilievre, Leslyn Lewis, Roman Baber, or whoever next staggers onto the stage. My friends, I stand before you at a perilous time in our history. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a shock to many of us. It has exposed the hollowness of our comforting illusions about the state of the world and our security policy. If I am elected leader of this great party, then entrusted with the office of Prime Minister of Canada, I will spend more than the 2 percent of GDP we …