The former small business, industry and foreign minister has been staking out radical policy positions it seems every other day. Nevertheless he’s long been known as something of a wonk, and it would be surprising if we did not see some interesting proposals from him. Trost and Pierre Lemieux are the latest candidates to enter the race, both decidedly in the social conservative camp. Social conservatives were not the only part of the Conservative coalition who were abandoned during the Harper years. Free-market conservatives, fiscal conservatives, democratic conservatives: the party served none of them well in power, when it was not actively silencing them.

Source: National Post August 22, 2016 23:26 UTC