Conservative Party

OTTAWA—The poles holding up the federal Conservatives’ big blue tent are wobbling, raising questions about whether the huff and puff of the next election could just blow it down.

Multiple party sources tell the Toronto Star discussions within their ranks these days bring to mind the early 2000s and a fractured right that rendered conservatives incapable of taking down the governing Liberals.

“Everyone is mad on all sides,” said one senior conservative operative speaking on the condition of anonymity due to their work on campaigns.

What can I say that hasn’t already been said? The CPC has been turned into LPC 2.0.

Men calling themselves women? Erin is for it and mind those pronouns h8tr!.

Free trade? The 3rd world needs your jobs and Erin will make sure they get them.

Carbon tax? Our green-scam is not a tax says Erin.

Anti-Abortion? Not in the CPC you aren’t.

Multicult & Diversity? Faggedaboutit! The CPC is as vested in identity politics as Trudeau. Now step aside as we erase your heritage.

Mass immigration? No different than the Liberals. The goal is to swamp the nation with whoever they can convince to come here, all to please their corporate masters desire to suppress wages and profit from shortages and maybe finagle a few “ethnic” votes for the party.

“A smaller piece of a shrinking pie for you” may as well be the CPC election slogan, it would be the only honest one.

“… The taxpayer-funded contracts, to Outhouse and the others, are a cause for concern among some Conservative MPs and Conservative campaigners who, speaking on the condition of anonymity, believe that the contracts may undermine Conservative charges that the Trudeau Liberals are behaving unethically with federal funds. Some also voiced concerns about the fairness of a top aide to the leader working in nomination fights.”

Canadians don’t seem to like early elections, at least not those called just for the political advantage of a sitting government.

I offer as exhibits David Peterson’s Liberals in Ontario in 1990 and Jim Prentice’s Tories in Alberta in 2015.

I would not be surprised.

You can forgive yourself if you’ve never heard of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB); the largely useless, ultra-expensive federal government boondoggle set up by the Liberals to boost the economy by funding infrastructure projects – “green” projects preferred.

Most people in the infrastructure industry have probably never heard of the CIB, or wish they hadn’t.

Unable to make any headway in the polls against the Liberals, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole could use a little help from his friends Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Basically, he needs Ford and Kenney to avoid doing anything that makes matters worse for him.

Trailing the Liberals by six percentage points nationwide in the CBC’s Poll Tracker — an aggregation of all publicly available polling data — the Conservatives are struggling in both Ontario and Alberta, among other places.

OTTAWA–Peter Kent is pretty sure he knows why the Conservatives failed to win GTA seats in the 2019 election.

Two words: Doug Ford.

“We might have won that election but for Doug Ford’s disastrous first year,” the former cabinet minister and retiring Thornhill MP told the Star in an interview this week.

“It’s that simple. That’s what we heard at the door. We were leading in a lot of York Region ridings … up until about three weeks, four weeks before the election.