The right woman is available for the job
In the brutally cruel world of politics, leaders who do not win elections can be cast aside with extreme prejudice. That seems to be what happened this week to Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, who said he will resign upon the party naming a new leader.
Despite losing the election to Liberal PM Trudeau, Scheer led his party to 22 more seats in Parliament. Despite a Howdy Doody-like appearance and personna, the real Andrew Scheer never really did stand up.
Just who is Andrew Scheer? Is he the rising star he once appeared to be? At only 25 years old he was named a Conservative candidate winning in the 2004 federal election. At 27, he was named Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole. In 2011 he became the Speaker of the House of Commons, the youngest ever in Canadian history. Then at the age of 38 he was named leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Quite a resume, but despite that there seems to be ambiguous sides to Andrew Scheer. He claimed to be a former insurance salesman, yet never sold a policy. Scheer was a Catholic who didn’t believe in abortion or equal marriage, yet could never seem to articulate to the media his reasons which were obviously religious in nature – and that should be okay. Scheer wanted to become Canadian Prime Minister, yet . . . contd.
