Richard Decarie Special to The Interim Richard Decarie has been pilloried for his socially conservative stances. As you know, over a year ago in January 2020, I launched my campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC). With a guiding intuition of what was to come– and is still coming – I was committed to saying out loud what too [...]
For all the post-election hand-wringing about whether social conservatism was, in the words of Peter MacKay, the “stinking albatross” that cost Andrew Scheer Canada’s premiership in 2019, the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership race revealed, once again, that social conservatives are an invaluable and inexorable part of the country’s conservative movement. While a self-described “pro-choice candidate,” Erin O’Toole emerged as the victor; [...]
The Interim invited several pro-life leaders to comment on the state and role of social conservatism in the Conservative Party of Canada, in light of the recent CPC leadership campaign. I hope you will read each one. Place of socons is decisive question of this leadership campaign by Richard Decarie What movement conservatives are called to do by Russell E. Kuykendall By Virtue [...]