From our June issue: “Conservatives win majority, but don’t expect much to change.” The primary benefit for social conservatives with Harper’s majority is that the pro-life movement and pro-family forces should not have to fight defensive battles for the next four years. But at some point, social conservatives should ask the Conservative Party “what have you done for me lately”?
It was not surprising to hear delegates at the Conservative Party policy convention going on this weekend in Ottawa tell reporters that they want to avoid controversial issues and division within the party because they have their eye on being re-elected to a majority in 2015. So if we all shut up and play nice, perhaps in four years, the government will take moral issues seriously. Unless of course, after the 2015 election, they have an eye toward the 2019 election. And then …
This might take a while.
