Conservatives’ critic shuffle is sign of maturity

June 30, 2026

Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: Among other things, this may be a signal that the Conservative braintrust has finally got the message from the centre-right voters who deserted it en masse last year: fewer yahoos, more grownups. Mr. Chong is decent, affable, thoughtful – principled and idealistic, as in his youth, but tempered perhaps by an older man’s understanding of political reality…