I watched the speeches last night after largely ignoring the race for the last year.
By far the most impressive was Pierre Lemieux who has gone against the current and stood for traditional values, real marriage, sanctity of life from conception to natural death. He is a fluid and convincing orator who presents an integrated political vision. Brad Trost was also impressive in not capitulating to the post moral zeitgeist.
Alexander Saxton has some innovative ideas consistent with economic nationalism and Steven Blaney some that are consistent with cultural nationalism. Everyone else with the exception of Kellie Lietch was promoting some form of NEO Conservatism.
In essence, that means Free Markets and Trade, globalism and open borders, regressive taxation, government deconstruction, and, paying the most shallow lip service to Social Conservatism. Just enough to hold the demographic but with no intent of implementing any concrete policy.
What is an afterthought and expediency for the majority of the candidates is the most critical issue facing the country. Canada is in the clutches of the talons of the Culture of Death and without a sustainable moral coherence everything else, economically and socially, will fall apart. We are are facing national disintegration.
The worst of the lot is Maxine Bernier, who is expected to win, and his closest contender Andrew Scheer. These are both Stephen Harper CLONES; shills of supranational banks, corporations and agencies. Bernier seems like a major flake. Scheer a conventional Neocon, molded by the corporate Old Boys of the Conservative back rooms.
Neither of these guy has a strong enough independent identity to take advantage of the populist and nationalist rebellions that are rocking the West. Which means they might be surprised by some upstart movement that represent TRUE conservatism rather than the economic LIBERALISM and social LIBERTARIANISM that comprises NeoConservatism.
