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Geoff Russ: Conservatives have ceded love of Canada to Liberal vanity

To be competition again, the right must offer a true alternative vision of the country

Conservatism in Canada is currently on a remarkable run, and a depressing one. 

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The best lines and policies it has pitched to voters are being appropriated and stolen by the Liberals, altered, and presented to the public as if Prime Minister Mark Carney himself had thought of them.  

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Pierre Poilievre and other Conservative party figures can try to gloat through the pain and sneer that they are the faction with the best ideas. However, policies are not copyrighted, and the public will not judge Carney for championing an expanded housing supply, accelerated major projects, and stronger national defence, among other plans.  

Imitation only flatters the people in power, not the opposition, and Carney is reaping the benefits of his own popularity. He can pick the 2025 Conservative platform clean, without a care in the world, and blend what he takes with his own agenda and the leftovers of the Trudeau government. 

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