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Whither the Conservative Party of Canada? Whence and wherefore shall it go? It’s agonizing, this conversation. It’s like the scene in Battlestar Galactica (the remake, of course) when Commander Adama stands among his exhausted pilots and unveils his quest for the mythical 13th planet, known as Earth. Even the great Adama has no clue how to get there. The point is to have an objective.

Except the Tories have no obvious Adama. And that’s precisely their obsession: They require a great leader, a titular and spiritual guru, someone who can galvanize and inspire them, someone good with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, someone who can do pithy videos and town halls, someone who … someone like Justin Trudeau. No, someone who is Justin Trudeau. The PM should run for Tory leader. He would win in a landslide.

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Never mind how surreal it is to see the party that made contempt for this man its watchword, now desperate to find his doppelganger. It’s normal for losers to emulate winners.