āPeople donāt want someone who sounds conservative and ends up not being conservativeļ¼
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with former BC Conservative Party of Canada candidate for the 2019 leadership election, Mike Tkachuk, to talk about his campaign and what led him to run for the party's leadership.
Transcript
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members that were there, as well as people who described themselves as potential members
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There were two big things that was coming through.
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First of all, they wanted a Conservative to lead the Conservative Party of BC,
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which shouldn't be such a big moment, but it seemed to become that.
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Secondly, they said, we don't want somebody who says they're Conservative,
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sounds like a conservative and ends up not being conservative those are two elements of perhaps a
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similar point but they're not the same and that led me to look at what is my record
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where have I come from the other people in the race where have they come from were they saying
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the same thing two three years ago they're saying now not all of them were and it's all on video
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today in this world and I wanted to assure people that I am reliable in that sense I think that's
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the word I used and it interestingly led I saw other competitors trying to talk more like me I
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even see them stealing some of my lines in the sense of copying them and that's okay
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you know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery they say but it comes naturally to me
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whereas they were looking to it like a talking point oh i should add that into what i'm saying
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as opposed to just being who you are i think people see me i am who i am uh so you're not
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going to be changing i'm not changing i think i used margaret thatcher's uh words in one of the
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debates and I said because they called her the grocer's daughter and I said well this
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electrician's daughter isn't for turning because I think it's a good statement and she also said
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first you win the argument then you win the vote and I've had people say well how are you going
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to bring you know middle of the road people along they said because I am talking about hope
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and opportunity and having a feeling of a future and having passion for getting BC
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back to where people want to come here, want to invest here.