Did you just tell all Red Tories to leave?
Should they have never been welcomed ? 👇🏻
Robert Stanfield, Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald, Peter Lougheed, Dufferin Roblin, Hugh Segal, Dalton Camp, Bill Davis, John Robarts, and Brian Mulroney.
Blend those temperaments, those traditions, and you forge a governing movement. One Conservative Voice.
Red Tories, Blue Tories, Libertarian Conservatives, Social Conservatives, Populist Conservatives, Western Conservatives, Quebec Conservatives, Progressive Conservatives, Neoconservatives, National Conservatives, each one a vital current in the same river.
Start excommunicating those who don’t fit your purity test, and you’ll find not renewal, but exile, a party talking only to itself, from the benches of opposition.
Chris d'Entremont's floor-crossing was based on self-interest, not principle.
If "Red Tories" were real and not just Liberals
@JeanCharest_ would be leader of the Conservatives.
Middling centrists get us nowhere.
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