Robson: Erin O’Toole just announced that he has no principles. Which I suppose has the merit of avoiding subsequent disappointment. But otherwise it is not a boast in public life, as it would not be privately.
“The Conservatives are a moderate, pragmatic, mainstream party — as old as Confederation — that sits squarely in the centre of Canadian politics” sounds reasonable and pleasant. As intended. But it is a renunciation of principles first because in the federal Conservative leadership campaign he positioned himself as the “true blue” candidate unlike that awful Red Tory Peter MacKay. By admitting this labelling was partisan trickery, understood as such by all sophisticated persons, he alerts us that anything else he says should be regarded the same way.
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