With Andrew Scheer, Canada’s Conservative Party finally has a leader who stands for something.
We’re just not sure what that is yet.
Scheer’s website offers visitors a thank you, a place to donate money, and nothing else.
When the newly crowned leader became speaker of the house at just 32 years old, the B.C. Catholic Paper heralded his rise as showing politicians needn’t divorce “robust Catholic faith” from public life. The paper’s acclaim arose – at least in part – from Scheer calling the legalization of gay marriage “abhorrent.”
More recently he’s touted tax credits for independent and home schooled children. He’s also engaged a controversial anti-Muslim media outlet that typically exercises the editorial judgment of a wounded warthog. We’re not sure what gave him the edge with social conservatives in the leadership race, but we hope it was the tax credits.
Scheer has a plan to rein in spending, make air travel more competitive, and balance the budget. He also supports ditching the carbon tax and sticking Canadian flags on gas pumps. While we argue that global climate change needs to be on an even footing with the economy to ensure the survival of our species, we commend Scheer for what is largely an intriguing, grown-up platform (except for the stickers).
We wish Scheer luck and remind him that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be defeated without the use of a dog whistle calibrated to inspire the hateful devils of our nature.
The winning candidate need only be intelligent, engaged and responsible.
And they’ll have to stand for something.
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