Juno News - January 26, 2020What the conservatives need in a leader
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the lack of conservative leadership candidates in the Conservative Party Leadership race and why it's a good thing. I also talk about why the party needs to rally behind individuals who present solutions to those ideas and chart them on the directions they want to head in.
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it's now looking like there's not going to be that many names at least not that many big
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ticket names putting their hat forward for the conservative party leadership race and that's a
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shame so we've got Peter McKay who's definitely in MP Marilyn Gladue who is in other than that
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we're learning about people who are out Ronna Ambrose out Pierre Polyev surprisingly out
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Jean Charest out although I'm glad that last one is out because Jean Charest I mean quite frankly we
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don't want anybody who's been acting as a lobbyist advisor or anything in any capacity supporting
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Huawei which we learned that Jean Charest had been doing some work for Huawei but I digress the only
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name really people are left wondering is this person going to run is Aaron O'Toole I've heard
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that yes he's still planning to run and there should be an announcement forthcoming soon but
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you never know we heard the same thing about Pierre Polyev so why is this not a good thing if
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there's only going to be a couple names out there I mean we're often told oh there were too many people
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on the stage last time around like 12 of them it was a mess the Democratic nominations down south they
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had something like 20 in the first debates they had to split them onto two different nights that's
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no way to have a debate so yes it was a mess and when you have 10 12 people 20 in their case down south
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you're going to have a few people who they don't actually contribute too much to the conversation
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they're kind of nutty they were just able to pay the freight to get in the door the first time around
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but what are they really bringing okay those are all very good points but I think here's one of the
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things that would be lacking a robust discussion and debate about policy priorities I will tell you
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if there's one thing I've learned about conservative grassroots members from all my years writing columns
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and broadcasting and meeting people at events like the Manning Center and conservative conventions
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is that these are people who are hungry for ideas for policy that's what they are there for and they
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want to discuss it they want to know what are the things that they are going out there to fight for
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when they knock on the doors the conservative party doesn't really go for cult of personality stuff
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they're not going to be able to say oh we've you know we've got a Trudeau type guy excellent and just
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celebrate the looks and the style of that individual and the brand name no they want to go out and fight
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for ideas as it should be because there's a lot of stuff at stake right now fiscal issues domestic
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policies foreign policy a ton of foreign policy issues arctic sovereignty all of those things and the
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party needs to get together and rally behind individuals who present solutions to those ideas policies
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to chart them on the directions they want to head in I also think one other thing they really need to
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be serious about here which is why you need a lot of people running and why you need a lot of ideas
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on the table is they will not be running whoever wins against Justin Trudeau of 2019 that was that was a
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one-shot it's not going to happen again and what do I mean by that I mean someone who is is so embattled so
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weakened who's messed up these foreign policy files who has been revealed to have been having these blackface
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photos that he's been taking for what almost like a decade's worth of time I mean wow you're not gonna
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find a guy under siege as much as Trudeau was then and like it or not he does seem to have matured his
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image coming in to 2020 and after that election in October he's no longer saying as many gaffes he's
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trying to not be so overexposed he's stepping back he's not memeing and hashtagging and well he's grown the
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beard look and I don't want to fall for the trick but he does just conduct himself and carry himself
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in a more mature way which I imagine would be appealing to swing voters so you're not running
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against uh p.m. selfie blackface wear you're going to be running against I don't know who this person
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is Justin Trudeau in in 2021 2022 whenever that election is which is all the more reason why you
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need to pick someone not because you go oh great quick we're in a minority who can easily slay the
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Trudeau dragon no I think it's got to be a lot more slower methodical and planned than that so have
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a very rigorous debate get as many people out there as possible and really hash out the issues because
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well anything's possible and that could be what happens in the next federal general election