If you’ve been paying attention to online discourse you may have noticed that a number of younger conservative minded Canadians have been making waves lately. They’re saying that you don’t win and keep power, never mind change a country, with a promise of a change in the marginal tax rate.
Conservatives need to engage beyond the economy, including in the culture wars. What that means may surprise you.
One of the leading voices on this has been Anthony Koch, a Montrealer who got involved in conservative politics thanks to Stephen Harper and worked on Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign.
That hasn’t stopped him from issuing critiques of the conservative movement and the Conservative Party past and present. In a piece in National Post a few weeks back he accused the right of helping the left undermine the West and then he wrote a piece about how we need a Pierre Trudeau of the right.
He has a point and despite the fact that no one would call me young anymore and that I’m not a part of the “New Right” a lot of what he said resonated with me. In fact if you’ve followed me on TV, radio, print and online over the years, many of the things he’s arguing for, I’ve argued for.
I’ve just been called too conservative or outside of the mainstream.
Perhaps that is changing as Anthony and his band of brigands make their mark on Canada’s conservative movement. Check out Without Diminishment on Substack and enjoy the chat.
