Can-Challenge: Minority Tory PM

Save the PCs and ensure the Reform Party crowd never takes over the Conservative Party, that would be a start.

From there, however, I have no idea who could be that person. Minority members of the Conservatives are very few and far between, most tend to vote Liberal.
 
Here are some possible people (in alphabetical order):

Leona Aglukkaq (born June 28, 1967). An Inuit she was elected as Conservative MP for Nunavut in 2008. She is currently the Minister of Health.

Okalik Eegeesiak (born 1962). She is also an Inuit and was defeated as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Nunavut in the 1997 general election.

Rahim Jaffer (born December 15, 1971). Born in Kampala, Uganda. He was Reform, Canadian Alliance and Conservative MP for Edmonton Strathcona from 1997 to 2008.

Inky Mark (born November 17, 1947). A Chinese-Canadian, he was born in China. He is Conservative MP for the Manitoba riding of Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette. Having first been elected for the Dauphin-Swan River riding as a Reform Party candidate in 1997.
 
Last election, we broke into the GTA fortress, including the suburban belt, for the first time in many years. This is largely due to Kenney's efforts as the PM's liaison IMHO. Unfortunately, Montreal is the "navel of Liberalism" and is inpenetrable. To give you an idea, Marlene Jennings is my MP. :rolleyes:
 
Last election, we broke into the GTA fortress, including the suburban belt, for the first time in many years. This is largely due to Kenney's efforts as the PM's liaison IMHO. Unfortunately, Montreal is the "navel of Liberalism" and is inpenetrable. To give you an idea, Marlene Jennings is my MP. :rolleyes:

Don't get too cocky about busting into the GTA just yet. Dion shot himself in the foot more than Harper kicking in the door, and Baird's unbelievably ill-timed rant about Toronto didn't help much. The GTA tends Liberal to start with, and while Red Tories can do well here, deep blue Tories like Harper and co tend to do badly. The provincial Tories will find that out the hard way in 2011 when Tim Hudak (provincial PC leader, and a Mike Harris clone) gets his ass handed to him by Dalton McGuinty. If Harper wants to win in Toronto, he's gotta to change his policies rather a lot......and he won't do that on a $1000 bet.
 
Don't get too cocky about busting into the GTA just yet. Dion shot himself in the foot more than Harper kicking in the door, and Baird's unbelievably ill-timed rant about Toronto didn't help much. The GTA tends Liberal to start with, and while Red Tories can do well here, deep blue Tories like Harper and co tend to do badly. The provincial Tories will find that out the hard way in 2011 when Tim Hudak (provincial PC leader, and a Mike Harris clone) gets his ass handed to him by Dalton McGuinty. If Harper wants to win in Toronto, he's gotta to change his policies rather a lot......and he won't do that on a $1000 bet.

Dion shooting himself in the foot doesn't mean that the Liberals will recoup their losses any time soon. It just means that Dion was an ivory-tower idiot. Ignatieff has a similar background, though he also has Dion as an example of what not to do.

Baird's "ill-timed" rant played quite well outside of Toronto. Even in places that are in the same province. And the Tories have shown that they don't need Toronto to win. They might need a few choice bits to get a majority, but they don't need the place to win.

Mike Harris got elected and re-elected in spite of a hostile media and the efforts of Ontario's public and private sector unions. And McGuinty could find that 2011, like 1995 or 2003, is a "toss the bums" out year. If Hudak in anything like Harris, then Ontario will be in good hands. Even McGuinty is better than Rae, but then anybody is better than Rae.
 
Anyone who deals with Miller can be forgiven the use of occasional profanity. ;) Garbage strike, streetcar stimulus, the list goes on. The only mayor worse than he is the possibility of Mme Harel winning here in November. So far, the polls show a toss-up. I believe that the West End, Outremont and downtown will result in a narrow Tremblay victory. She'll sweep the north and the student ghetto. Though it could go either way. The Grey endorsement is overrated, he just wants to run for the NDP.
 
From the thread title I thought you were talking about the UK! I suppose selecting a woman as UK Tory leader in 1975 was a pretty big leap for the UK Conservatives and maybe they could have gone as far as electing an ethnic minority leader as well/instead...
 
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