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Geoff Russ: Conservatives exist in B.C., even if that shocks Globe and Mail writers

New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay is not about to split the party

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The Conservative Party of British Columbia has elected a conservative leader, and people are pretending to be stunned. 

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Take Glacier Media journalist Rob Shaw, who argued that newly elected leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has inherited a party with major internal tensions. There certainly are tensions, as there are in any party, but they are not apocalyptic by any means. 

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The Globe and Mail’s Gary Mason has taken things a bit further and declared that Findlay’s mantra of “faith, family and freedom” makes the party liable to become “MAGA North.” Assuming Mason is not writing in bad faith, it is incredible that mainstream conservative slogans are being portrayed as some sort of exotic extremism from the bowels of Alabama. 

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