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Date Posted: 20:12:24 04/23/03 Wed
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In reply to:
Greg Moors
's message, "Re: Moors comments on candidates..." on 00:23:29 04/17/03 Thu
Greg -- you brandish the "neo-conservative" word like a weapon. It sounds good and offensive, in a rhetorical way, but is essentially meaningless especially if you try to paint Mr. Prentice with that ill-defined brush. A neo-con he most certainly is not, even if we could pin down a definition we'd all agree upon.
Mr. Prentice's campaign is not run by "big business". From my personal and intimate experience with campaign workers from across the country, I can assure you that the lions share of the work and thinking going into the Prentice campaign, and its policies, are every day Progressive Conservatives who believe that Mr. Prentice is the right candidate to support.
A leadership candidate has the obligation to demonstrate to party members that they have both personal and campaign team substance - which is why publishing policy statements is so important. If Mr. Orchard is all about slogans and not about detail, then he isn't the leader for this party.
Our Party has not held a policy convention in *years* - this is a tremendous failing of our party. An election looms in the forseeable future and we have a responsibility to Canadian voters to plainly state what we are for.
Mr. Prentice has underscored the importance of addressing our policy deficit in his latest policy document, released today: Rebuilding the Progressive Conservative Party
http://jimprentice.org/en/policy/rebuild.html
You know Greg, for all the time you claim to have been a Progressive Conservative, its surprising to hear the steady stream of "big business" rhetoric coming from you.
Or are you one of those who only comes out for leadership races, and then does nothing to further the party in the intervening years?
The largest percentage of PC members I have run across are small business owners, salaried staff, farmers, waitresses, secretaries, sales reps, homemakers male and female alike, retired folks, yes even a lawyer or two, students, programmers - well, you get the picture - every day Canadians. There aren't a lot of bank presidents hanging out with us at ground zero, making things happen. Policy doesn't get crafted down off King Street West in some tall tower. It happens in meeting rooms all across the country, and crafting party policy involves Canadians of all backgrounds.
Party members - and surely all Canadians - want to hear more than angry, empty, rhetoric from politicians and political parties.
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