Conservative MP Jamil Jivani states<\/a>, writing in the Toronto Sun in the wake of social conservative Marilyn Gladu\u2019s bizarre defection to the Liberals given her views observed, there is a serious problem with Conservatives as it applies to taking liberal advice.<\/p>\n\u201cThe biggest lesson Canadian conservatives must learn from the Mark Carney floor-crossing saga\u201d, Jivani wrote, is, \u201cStop trying to please your Liberal detractors, because they\u2019re not sincere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a constant problem in the conservative movement: people who think Liberals in the media or politics will ever be fair to us, if we contort ourselves or water down our message enough \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are conservatives who watch CTV and CBC, or read Liberal newspapers, and believe Liberal talking heads can be won over. They long for an imaginary world where Liberals shower us with praise for our good policy ideas. There are conservatives who think that if we just had the right tone or became bland and vanilla enough, Liberals might extend us grace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly, Conservative MPs have a choice to make about the future of their own leader because Conservatives, unlike Liberals, adhere to a process by which the caucus can depose the leader.<\/p>\n
But in considering that future \u2013 once the remaining as yet undeclared Conservatives, according to media reports, defect to the Liberals \u2013 they might want to consider not taking any more advice from liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristin Hopper, who writes for our sister paper the National Post, had some excellent advice for Conservatives on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,5433,1643,3560,111,5430,1214,5432,5431],"class_list":{"0":"post-9812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-conservative-leader","10":"tag-conservatives","11":"tag-greg-southam","12":"tag-mark-carney","13":"tag-national-post","14":"tag-pierre-poilievre","15":"tag-strategic-advice","16":"tag-tristin-hopper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}