Yes, your divided, demoralized, decapitated party must fight an election campaign in a little over four months time. The option was open to the party simply to let Fedeli lead it in the campaign. Cast your minds back to the PCPO leadership campaign of 2015. I suspect more than a few caucus members did. True, their independence and authority as elected representatives has been allowed to atrophy, in favour of the party leader; and true, in today’s obsessively leader-focused campaigns, the individual candidate owes his or her seat more to the leader than to his own efforts.

Source: National Post January 30, 2018 02:25 UTC