Andrew Coyne made an excellent point in his column about the Manning Networking Conference that the Manning Centre is hosting in Ottawa:
So this is what a Conservative convention looks like. After that bizarre lockdown in Calgary last fall – reporters harassed and penned in at every turn, the prime minister’s defiantly empty speech, the air heavy with self-congratulation and paranoia – the annual Manning Networking conference exudes an altogether different spirit: thoughtful, open, introspective and conservative.…The party that met in Calgary was not so much the Conservative party as the Harper party. It was run by and for (Read more…)