Conservatives Need to Take Back Control of the Abortion Debate
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the abortion debate in the Conservative Party, the media's reaction to it, and how it could affect the party's leadership race. We also talk about why the media is so excited about it and what it means for the future of the Conservative party.
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I think that the Liberals right now are just so excited that this issue is something that the
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media will talk about and use it to paint Conservatives as being sort of anti-woman or
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whatever. Have you heard, you know, we're at this conference with all these Conservative
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activists. Have you heard a lot of people talking about it? What's your take on how this will affect
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the Conservative leadership race and the Conservative movement more broadly in Canada?
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Yeah, I haven't heard too, too much yet at the conference specifically, but just in the last few
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days, the one point that I've raised, I think I raised this on my show the other day, is that
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abortion is a wedge for Conservatives in a way that it isn't for the Liberals. And it used to be,
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but the Liberals under Justin Trudeau have just purged anyone that doesn't go along with Justin
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Trudeau's view on this from their caucus. So the Liberals are in lockstep with each other, the NDP,
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the Bloc are in lockstep. So they know that it's not at all, there's no losing when they bring it
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up. They just want to force Conservatives to have some stand up and say I'm pro-life and some stand
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up and say they're pro-choice. A divide that works within the Conservative Party, that has always
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allowed for people to approach these issues and other issues of conscience from whichever
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perspective they'd like. But they know that then the CBC is going to go into overdrive, the Toronto
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Star, and it's going to be, oh, these antiquated anti-woman dinosaurs, and it just goes into this
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whole thing. So what you need is a Conservative that can, and you touched on this with the Andrew
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Scheer observation, that can defend and sell their position. Not necessarily to convert people,
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but to explain it. Because defence isn't working. You get Conservatives that end up apologising for
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their values, which is never the way you win anyone over. Leslyn Lewis has done a great job on this.
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She's put out her platform on abortion, which has no hidden agenda. And she said, this is what I stand
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for. Boom, boom, boom. And as a result, there's not really that much criticism that she faces from the
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media, because they don't sense that weakness that they do a lot of other times. Yeah. Of like,
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where it's like someone feels like they've been caught doing something they're not supposed to do.