Fred DeLorey/Toronto Star: In conservative circles, there is currently a fatalistic terror that changing gears will fracture the party beyond repair. The worry is that the movement exists only through the force of one person’s microphone.
B.C. just blew up that myth.
By replacing a polarizing figure with a calm, credible unifier, the B.C. Conservatives didn’t collapse; they stabilized. The activist base didn’t walk away, because their primary goal remains defeating an entrenched progressive government.
Meanwhile, moderate suburban voters — the ones in Richmond, Surrey, and the Fraser Valley, who actually decide elections — were given permission to take the party seriously again…