Die-hard Liberals will wail about betrayal. Committed Conservatives will imagine a lurch toward power. Some will point to Ms. Alleslev\u2019s military and corporate background and see a small-\u201dc\u201d conservative shifting to her natural home.
\nOthers will attribute her decision to pique at losing her job as a Parliamentary Secretary.
\nSevere skeptics will say she\u2019s an opportunist who, fearing a Liberal losses in the 905, is trying opportunistically to attach herself to the Doug Ford insurgency and ride that populist beast to re-election.
\nMany will take her at her word.
\nI don\u2019t know; few of us do.
\nShe explains that the world has changed. That, however, is mainly the effect of the current US president. How would electing a party that is better aligned with Mr. Trump be helpful? She adds that Canada\u2019s economic, foreign and defence policies are entwined, but does anyone seriously oppose comprehensive, coherent public policy?
\nThen, there is her sense of \u201curgency,\u201d her reference to a \u201ctipping point,\u201d her talk of a \u201cperfect storm\u201d and her expressed need for \u201cleadership.\u201d Apart from whether Andrew Scheer is up to the task, I worry whenever anyone seeks a \u201cstrong leader\u201d to take us from danger to redemption.
\nDemocracy rests more on an informed, active electorate than charismatic leadership. Craving a saviour hints at desperation and undue deference. It is a sentiment that implies a submissive citizenry. It betokens authoritarianism. We embrace it at our peril.<\/p>\n
Howard A. Doughty Die-hard Liberals will wail about betrayal. Committed Conservatives will imagine a lurch toward power. Some will point to Ms. Alleslev\u2019s military and corporate background and see a small-\u201dc\u201d conservative shifting to her natural home. Others will attribute her decision to pique at losing her job as a Parliamentary Secretary. Severe skeptics will say she\u2019s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOak Ridges<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"