Just a very minor correction: Chad mentions at 20:27-8 that Patrick Brown is the mayor of Barrie; he is in fact the mayor of Brampton. Barrie's current mayor is Jeff Lehman.
Great discussion. Very informative. Having lived in QC during Charest's last years, I can say it wasn't pretty so I was very confused with the draft effort. Now I get it, though I would still be disappointed to see him run for the leadership.
Good conversation. It would be interesting to consider the general electoral strategies and likelihood of success for each of the candidates. Would Charest, for example, lose seats in the west?
Chad Rogers's call to drop "Progressive" from the party's name (just, of course, in the provinces) because of John Bracken's role as an eugenicist and his insistence that the party adopt "Progressive Conservative" in its name when he became leader in 1942 is overstated. Bracken, as Manitoba Premier, and leader of the Progressive part of the governing coalition, in a free vote supported the (losing) eugenicist side. But his biographer,John Kendle, says nothing about Bracken and eugenics and Barbara Arneil in Domestic Colonies, which, amongst other things, discusses eugenics in Canada does not reference Bracken. I can find nothing connneting Bracken and eugenics after 1933, the very year T.C. Douglas defended his pro-eugenicist thesis at McMaster. John A. Macdonald did use the phrase "progressive conservatism."
Chad Rogers's call to drop "Progressive" from the party's name (just, of course, in the provinces) because of John Bracken's role as an eugenicist and his insistence that the party adopt "Progressive Conservative" in its name when he became leader in 1942 is overstated. Bracken, as Manitoba Premier, and leader of the Progressive part of the governing coalition, in a free vote supported the (losing) eugenicist side. But his biographer,John Kendle, says nothing about Bracken and eugenics and Barbara Arneil in Domestic Colonies, which, amongst other things, discusses eugenics in Canada does not reference Bracken. I can find nothing connneting Bracken and eugenics after 1933, the very year T.C. Douglas defended his pro-eugenicist thesis at McMaster. John A. Macdonald did use the phrase "progressive conservatism."
Just a very minor correction: Chad mentions at 20:27-8 that Patrick Brown is the mayor of Barrie; he is in fact the mayor of Brampton. Barrie's current mayor is Jeff Lehman.
Great discussion. Very informative. Having lived in QC during Charest's last years, I can say it wasn't pretty so I was very confused with the draft effort. Now I get it, though I would still be disappointed to see him run for the leadership.
Good conversation. It would be interesting to consider the general electoral strategies and likelihood of success for each of the candidates. Would Charest, for example, lose seats in the west?
Chad Rogers's call to drop "Progressive" from the party's name (just, of course, in the provinces) because of John Bracken's role as an eugenicist and his insistence that the party adopt "Progressive Conservative" in its name when he became leader in 1942 is overstated. Bracken, as Manitoba Premier, and leader of the Progressive part of the governing coalition, in a free vote supported the (losing) eugenicist side. But his biographer,John Kendle, says nothing about Bracken and eugenics and Barbara Arneil in Domestic Colonies, which, amongst other things, discusses eugenics in Canada does not reference Bracken. I can find nothing connneting Bracken and eugenics after 1933, the very year T.C. Douglas defended his pro-eugenicist thesis at McMaster. John A. Macdonald did use the phrase "progressive conservatism."
Chad Rogers's call to drop "Progressive" from the party's name (just, of course, in the provinces) because of John Bracken's role as an eugenicist and his insistence that the party adopt "Progressive Conservative" in its name when he became leader in 1942 is overstated. Bracken, as Manitoba Premier, and leader of the Progressive part of the governing coalition, in a free vote supported the (losing) eugenicist side. But his biographer,John Kendle, says nothing about Bracken and eugenics and Barbara Arneil in Domestic Colonies, which, amongst other things, discusses eugenics in Canada does not reference Bracken. I can find nothing connneting Bracken and eugenics after 1933, the very year T.C. Douglas defended his pro-eugenicist thesis at McMaster. John A. Macdonald did use the phrase "progressive conservatism."