My worry is the country will get tired of PCs shedding light on govt incompetence, preferring to accept it as normal operating procedur
There was a time when dishonorable conduct or gross incompetence protocol involved resignation or firing. John Tory style.
Today its acceptable to plan lies, deal inside, cheat... knowing that if one gets caught all that's needed is an apology or another well planned lie.
It goes back to playing to the base instead of increasing the party's appeal. All legitimate points, all more or less pointless in an election.
Political scandals blah, blah, blah, look, look, look. The base gets all railed up, but not new news for ANY political party in power (geeze a pig at the trough is getting fat, who would have thought?). If blackface etc. did not sink JT, it is unlikely this will. The CPC (long ago the PCs died) needs to figure out how to appeal to people outside of the base to detrhone the sitting party and stop screaming inside an echo chamber (NDP same problem, different side). At the same time it is a bad scab to pick as we also know Russia has also tried to interfere, and not for the Liberals (they do it globally so no shock). Shocking a foreign country tried to get an outcome they thought would be better for them!!!!
Policy wise the Liberals keep drifting left to out position the NDP, that is their strategy. How about legitimately taking the CPC centre to out position the Liberals? Requires cutting ties with some of the far right base, is the fear of Bernier and the PPC that great?
Like EVERY political party that has been in power too long, people are sick of the corruption and how fat the pigs are getting (BTW polls show that). Time for new pigs at the trough, screaming this louder is not going to make any positive difference for the CPC. How about telling everyone WHY to vote CPC instead of why not to vote for everyone else? Rinse and repeat until they figure that one out.
BTW Harper got this early on and then the CPC lost the plot as they rolled into 2015.
I see it with technology equipment vendors all the time--you have 30 minutes.... Some companies like to bash their competitors and talk little about their product and by the end of the presentation I have no idea what they can do. Others don't even mention the competitors but stick to what their product does. It is a corporate culture thing, as it is a political party culture in this context.