Harper MacKay: Rule yourselves out of running for leader
Much ink has been spilled on the subject of uniting the right in Canada. There is (was?)apparently a desire for the leaders of the two parties, Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper, to meet again early this week to see if anything can be done to salvage this. They have not yet met, but I hope they do and that they can hash something out – both men have invested far too much stock in this process to have it fail now. If it does fail, the credibility of both parties will be shot. It has to go through.
It looks like one of the main problems is that they are both trying to get some kind of tactical advantage over one another. In Harper’s case, I think it’s because he wants to run for leader of the new party. Both of these men should put the good of the conservative movement, their parties and the country itself ahead of their ambition and rule themselves out of the running for the top job in a new party. This would remove any doubt that these negotiations are being done in good faith.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:53 AM
