A MONUMENTAL TASK AHEAD

  Conrad Black:  The federal Conservative party is about to announce the election of a new leader, and while the shabby agreement between the Liberals and NDP seems to assure that those parties will be riveted on our backs for another three years, imposing their delusional socialist nonsense upon us, “The land is strong,” as Pierre Trudeau famously said in his not overly successful 1972 re-election campaign, and we will certainly endure three more years of misgovernment. At that time, surely either Pierre Poilievre or Jean Charest will be called upon to pick up the pieces. An immense challenge and a great opportunity, which the incumbent regime has entirely failed even to recognize, will await the returning Conservatives. As I have had occasion to remark in this space often before, all we have to show for seven years of the present federal government is national self-prostration in morbidly exaggerated guilt and shame over the sorry and at times tragic history of the Crown’s relations with Canada’s First Nations, rather than a plan of action to help them; a green terror conducted against our oil and gas industry in the name of combating the under-comprehended issue of climate change; and an absurd waste of public attention on gender issues, which should have been easily resolved by adherence to the policy that there are two equal sexes and everyone is free to work out their sexuality for themselves, as long as they avoid public indecency.