1/ Thread. There's a lot of truth in here. Our party can and must offer a vitally missing counterpoint to the dogma of the crowded space on the left in Canada. Big, bold, visionary stuff. Over the last few years.... nationalpost.com/opinion/np-vie…
2/....I feel like our party has been cowed into submission that somehow transactional politics are the only thing that we should be doing; that big bold transformative ideas on the right are verboten simply by virtue of them not being Liberal.
3/ Partisanship works when agree on policy outcome, but boldly and unapologetically offer alternative policy instruments to get there. Where my party has encountered issues is when we are perceived to ignore a public policy concern altogether.
4/ This is not an opening salvo to a leadership bid, for those who might say so. It is an appeal to the core point of the article I posted above - for our Party to put big ideas and a conversation about who we are ahead of selecting a personality.
5/ One of the biggest reasons I didn't endorse anyone in 2015 was because this process didn't happen. The field was crowded, polite, and ideas were for the most part secondary to internal alignments and loyalties.
6/ So now is the time for ideas, and a big tough conversation about what we want to do for Canada. Let's start there, and measure our candidates by that.
