Showdown At The Bergen Corral?

Look, I've always been a Bergen admirer, even though we didn't always agree on policy, I felt that Candice had natural leadership qualities and that she would make at least a good leader. I still think that. She's been chosen as interim and IMHO, the party is in good hands.

Now, let's address the matter of nameless cowards who've already begun sniping about her and disrupting her leadership even before she barely got out of the gate. Let's call a spade a spade: those leaks are coming from at least one MP and that person or persons need to be found, identified with proof and then summarily tossed from caucus with no chance of ever being integrated again at a later date. In short, you burn the leader now and you pay the price forever. Let that person be the next one to get the heave-ho treatment.

As for Candice, she needs to know that as interim, she must only go with winning issues that increase support among Conservatives, the unaffiliated and others for the party. Any issue that divides up the country and puts all of us against each other is to be avoided like the plague. Why do I say that? Because I know Liberals, especially Trudeau Liberals, and nothing would give them more delight than to see our party divided and fighting with each other under an interim as HimselfTM comes up with a pretext to go into an early election against Bergen. All of us need to be mindful of that because it is a distinct possibility, strategically speaking.

So, Candice, if you want to grow this party, grow our support among the unaffiliated and previously non-voting Canadians, then drop the truckers and do it now. Otherwise, this party will die from the death of a thousand cuts and handoff to the new leader in an incredibly weak position. So, in the final analysis, it's Bergen's choice and hers alone. I'm for building bridges, expanding and growing the party. Hope she is for that as well. I want her legacy to be the strongest possible handoff that's possible to the new leader. I want the baton passed off with Bergen strength, not Bergen weakness. Like I said before, only Candice can cement her legacy as leader and only she can provide the initial rocket fuel that will likely propel this party straight into power after the selection of a new leader. That must be, and likely will be the Bergen legacy.