Melissa Lantsman

Columnist

Melissa Lantsman is Vice President, Public Affairs at H&K Strategies in Toronto.

National

Conservatives need to decide who can beat Trudeau

Ever since Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer announced his own departure last month, more attention has been granted to the wild speculation about who might replace him rather than why? or even, how? Conservatives across the country have rightly, or wrongly, come to believe that in October’s election, Liberals snatched victory from the jaws of their own orchestrated near-defeat — and that defeat was easily avoidable.