I read where Preston Manning—a good man, let’s make no mistake about it—has held a big conference about the creation of a new Canadian institute for conservatives which would help build conservatism in Canada.
You gotta know I’d be all over that idea like a socialist to free government-issued wieners on a stick.
But do you think I know anything at all about this institute or that I have even the slightest clue about it—I mean before reading about it in the National Post? Well no, I didn’t, and thanks for asking.
I think maybe the first thing Canadian conservatives should do—and I’ve said this countless times before—is to at least get a frigging Rolodex or hey I know—a scrap of paper—and write down the names and email addresses of people in Canada who have been busting a butt at their own enormous expense to try to stir up the conservatives in this country and try to help the apparently all but failing movement.
The Conservative Party of Canada still doesn’t answer my emails 99% of the time.
Tomorrow I’m going to a small Fraser Institute wine and cheese affair downtown, simply because they have a new president, and they wanted me to be there to meet him. And of course I wouldn’t not be there. But somehow they got my name, email address, and phone number, and sent me a nice invitation—because they…oh what’s the word….umm… oh yeah: they “get it”.
A novel institute that hopes to give Canadian conservatives a much-needed electoral jolt—with concepts that include a graduate school for right-wing political operatives—started to take shape over the weekend.
The Manning Centre for Building Democracy will try to break the tightening Liberal grip on federal power by channelling practical advice, training and ideas to politicians, Preston Manning, its founder, said yesterday.
[…] They include a sort of MBA to train political organizers and scholarships to help conservative youth attend journalism school, then go on to influence media that conservatives perceive to be liberal-dominated.
The centre also plans to encourage more training for activists at all levels of the political process, improve links to academia and bring together conservatives more often to discuss strategy and policies.
As if to prove they’re missing the point, we have this:
The centre aims to help better communicate conservative values—many of which are appealing to Canadians, although they’re not winning elections.
“They’re not finding expression in policies that people can identify with to the extent that conservatives would like. They’re not being communicated and applied in certain situations,” he said. “The problem is more translating them into public policy and political results. That’s what we’d like to help do.”
Hello? Is this thing on?
Oh why do I bother.
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