Conservative wipeout: the lesson Canada’s 1993 election offers to the Tories

Conservative wipeout: the lesson Canada’s 1993 election offers to the Tories

Thirty-one years ago, the Progressive Conservatives lost all but two seats and spent years puzzling over how to rebuild

A party unspooling in waning days of power, a prime minister plumbing news depths of unpopularity, the looming threat of an electoral “nightmare scenario”, and a newly empowered Reform party hellbent on destroying the national Conservatives.

Canada’s 1993 federal election fundamentally altered country’s political landscape and shattered its national conservative movement, forcing leaders to spend a decade puzzling over how to rebuild a broken party.

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