A viable real conservative party would have the effect of forcing the CPC further to the right, giving up any notion it is nothing more than a Liberal-lite party.
A couple of weeks ago, CPC MP Maxime Bernier held a press conference hours before the party’s 2018 convention was to begin in Halifax. Bernier not only announced he was quitting the party but he was going to start his own.
While the Quebec MP was always a thorn in the side of the Conservative Party of Canada, the writing was on the wall in mid-August when he sent out a series of tweets. Bernier criticized Trudeau’s “cult of diversity” and “extreme multiculturalism.” And he made the politically incorrect statement people who do not accept Western values and have no intention of integrating into Canadian society should not be allowed to immigrate here. These are statements the CPC would never dare make. (Spencer Fernando, Aug. 12)