Sandy White/Toronto Star: The Liberals remain what they have long been: a big-spending, announcement and image-driven, hypocritical party that talks fiscal discipline while expanding government, talks productivity while adding bureaucracy and regulation, and talks democratic values when it is convenient to them, while growing ties with the likes of China and ignoring its abuses.
The party is not even a meaningful vehicle for conservative-adjacent policy as some “progressive conservatives” claim. The current iteration of the Liberals is, at best, a temporary imitation and an ersatz version of conservative language layered onto a fundamentally Liberal governing philosophy.
If Conservatives want conservative outcomes — fiscal restraint, regulatory reform, economic and productivity growth, energy development, innovation and immigration reform — those ideas must come from a Conservative government. And that requires a Conservative party that can win…