Solomon Wood and Mac Kay

base: The social conservative base is enormously powerful, Livesey told Solomon Wood and the audience of 100 participants on the Zoom webinar, part of Conversations, sponsored by Canada's National Observer, according to National Observer. The reason leadership rivals Peter Mac Kay and Erin O'Toole have taken the positions they're doing which are ludicrous in terms of ever trying to get elected is because the base has this enormous social conservative element. Answering questions from Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood, columnists Bruce Livesey and Sandy Garossino spent an hour tackling wide-ranging questions about why today's Canadian conservative movement has moved so far to the right, its hopes for retaking power in the face of an increasingly progressive populace, and how evangelical Christians and Big Oil got a stranglehold on the right. In order to win the leadership, you've got to pander to them. Livesey an award-winning investigative journalist with experience on CBC's flagship shows The Fifth Estate and The National, Global News' 16 9, and PBS's Frontline most recently did an analysis on the state of the Conservatives for the National Observer entitled, How Stephen Harper is destroying the Conservative party. Video of Sandy Garossino and Bruce Livesey on Canada's Conservative Party Linda Solomon Wood interviews Bruce Livesey and Sandy Garossino about the future of the Conservative Party What people are reading Global LNG terminal survey casts doubt on industry as safe bet'Trudeau takes a pass on meeting this week with Trump Alberta to redefine minerals,' excluding 500 sand projects from environmental scrutiny But that's precisely what has lost them repeated elections, and will only worsen their chances over time, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.