Will Michael Chong Become Canada's Next Conservative Leader?

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Will Michael Chong Become Canada's Next Conservative Leader?

[ http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/03/05/Mi ... ign=050316 ]

This coalition builder with a green streak might be the opposite of Stephen Harper.

By Kai Nagata, TheTyee.ca March 5, 2016

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Canadians for Clean Prosperity, a conservative NGO, released a survey in the lead up to the conference that found a startling pattern among former Conservative supporters. Fifty-three per cent of those that abandoned Harper between 2011 and 2015 were self-identified climate voters.

''The challenge for the CPC and their next leader is to give Canadians a credible, conservative action plan to address the threat of climate change,'' said executive director Mark Cameron in a release. ''Failure to do so could mean the continued decline of the Conservative vote share.''

Data from Elections Canada shows that across Canada, the Conservatives experienced a net loss of just 234,744 votes in the last election. But 149,075 of those lost votes were concentrated in the province of B.C., where unwanted pipeline and oil tanker projects became a symbol of Stephen Harper's disdain for the environment. [ . . . ]