Calgary Nose-Hill MP Michelle Rempel has broken her silence about the future of her party, days after federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said he would step down from his post.
In a thread posted on Twitter on Saturday morning, Rempel said it was time for the party to look for “big, bold, visionary stuff.”
“Over the last few years, I feel like our party has been cowed into submission that somehow transactional politics are the only thing that we should be doing,” she said, “that big bold transformative ideas on the right are verboten simply by virtue of them not being Liberal.
“Partisanship works when (we) agree on policy outcome, but boldly and unapologetically offer alternative policy instruments to get there. Where my party has encountered issues is when we are perceived to ignore a public policy concern altogether.”
1/ Thread. There’s a lot of truth in here. Our party can and must offer a vitally missing counterpoint to the dogma of the crowded space on the left in Canada. Big, bold, visionary stuff. Over the last few years…. https://t.co/kHjkFYQ22S
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) December 14, 2019
She noted that while her tweets were “not an opening salvo to a leadership bid,” it was “an appeal to the core point” of a National Post editorial she shared. The editorial, published Friday afternoon, suggested the Conservative party focus on philosophy first before choosing a leader.
“So now is the time for ideas, and a big tough conversation about what we want to do for Canada. Let’s start there, and measure our candidates by that,” Rempel wrote in the closing tweet of the thread.
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