Canada’s main opposition party is in a funk. Could a new leader turn things around?
more new members than have ever been signed up in the history of Conservative Party leadership campaigns.” So said Peter MacKay , one of two front-runners to be the party’s leader, in an email to supporters on May 17th. His main rival, Erin O’Toole , declared that “our campaign set a record for most membership sales in party history!”
Perhaps as disconcerting for Conservatives is that Mr Trudeau is using covid-19 to remake Canada in unconservative ways. Like many governments, Canada’s is spending lots of money to shield citizens from the pandemic’s economic impact. The Parliamentary Budget Office expects the federal deficit to reach at least C$252bn , a record 13% of, in the fiscal year ending in March.
The front-runners to lead the Conservatives object to the drift towards bigger government. Maintaining direct payments to workers after the crisis would be “unsustainable”, says Mr O’Toole. But neither aspirant is resisting loudly. The time for advocating such Conservative principles as balanced budgets will come after the pandemic recedes.
Neither contender will jeopardise the Conservatives’ claim to be one of the few centre-right parties that supports immigration. Last year Canada admitted 313,000 newcomers, more than any other7 country as a share of population. But support for immigration could weaken. The unemployment rate nearly doubled to 13% in April. It might now be 20%. Mr O’Toole thinks the number of immigrants may need to come down temporarily. If the pandemic slump persists, that position could prove popular.
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