A lot of people have been wondering what David Orchard, the PC who ran for leader of the party based on his opposition to NAFTA and the Americanization of Canada, has been thinking/doing since he made a deal with Peter McKay to endorse his leadership if he agreed not to join the PCs with the Alliance.
From The Toronto Star, Oct. 23:
"On or before Dec. 12, 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada will vote on whether to cease to exist.
The party created by John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier in 1854, that founded Canada, flung a railroad across it, negotiated the entry of the west into Confederation, gave us the second national railway, gave women the vote, bequeathed us the Bank of Canada, the CBC and the Canadian Wheat Board, that gave aboriginal Canadians the right to vote, the only party that has ever defeated the Liberals, is being asked to vote to extinguish itself, to scrap its constitution and wait shivering by the altar.
Uniting the right, we are told, is the key to effectively challenge the Liberals. But is it?
Full article: A blatant swindle
A blatant swindle
