Leadership Challenge: Conservative Party Discipline

Leadership Challenge Dept: A restless caucus does not always breed a leadership challenge but it is a rare leadership challenge that is not preceded by backbench flare-ups, according to The Star. The MP who is the public face of this week challenge to Conservative party discipline is a fourth-term member of the government social conservative wing and History suggests that Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take the first open caucus rebellion of his seven-year tenure seriously. Such episodes routinely feature MPs who toil in relative obscurity, with little prospect of advancement but in politics hope springs eternal. It does not necessarily follow that their actions are completely divorced from the thought that they could do better under a different leader. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.