Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 30, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba The election aftermath Winnipeg Frek november 2000 most leaders Days appear numbered knives May come out soon As political parties regroup by Stephen Thome Ottawa Stockwell Day May Well be the Only National party Leader from this election Campaign to participate in the next one if the knives dont come out under Days the right Wing Canadian Alliance party increased its share of the popular vote in every Region of the country and gained eight to but it failed to make a significant Dent in Al important where it added just two not the 30 to 40 party strategists were aiming i Haven considered quitting at said at so the youngest of the party there is probably a very Good Chance that i will be the Only one of the present leaders who will be at the next prime minister Jean care is widely expected to step Down before his mandate is despite his own mixed messages on the Chretien could easily walk away completely covered in looking awfully Good within the next two said Peter a Politi Cal science professor at the University then Chretien Success in Quebec and the fact he delivered a third straight majority the first in 60 years May tempt him to stay Mccormick pushed out nip Leader Alexa whose social welfare message seemed lost As her party barely Hung on to offi Cial status with 13 May be pushed perhaps As soon As the party convention next r she clearly int the Leader to bring the new democrats Back to a higher profile and she May very Well be said Mccormick a adding a focused Campaign but her Mes Sage seemed old and i think the new democratic party is stuck saying the things it was saying 25 years the new democratic party needs a new message and a new and a new Leader always helps to get that Mccormick predicted conservative Leader Joe Clark wont be around its absurd to think that Clark is the tory answer for the next 10 to 15 he they need someone though he certainly rekindled the flame and kept the party in Halfway decent mused about his future after mondays i dont know if it will be in the inter est of the party to have me As its Leader in four years from Clark said after his party took just 12 it is very much possible that there will be a Complete change of Leader ship in All of the parties before the next someone younger there is talk that someone younger and from the tories base in Atlantic Canada might be a More appropriate National Leader like Nova Scotia my Peter Mackay or new Brunswick pre Mier Bernard Clark planned to discuss his future with his my leadership mattered in this he i think that the party understands a key Alliance organizer in Ontario suggested yesterday a new party to bring conservatives under one tory Bob Ontario con Sumer and commercial relations minis said forming a new party could be the Only Way to give the Small conservative movement a fresh it would also help heal the wounds from infighting Between progressive conservatives and Alliance supporters during the said i dont think it would be difficult to form one because theres not a Heck of a lot of difference Between their plat Runciman Mccormick said Day Doest deserve blame for his party Digap print mental to dump a Leader after 100 Days because he got ambushed in one Felecy Ilion Campaign by a real political in machine a Little he you dont usually dump a Leader unless youve got some idea As to who would take it was a disappointing it want a devastating it was just a lost Opportunity and three or four or More years to Canadian press Tom Hanson Canadian press Stockwell Day there is probably a very Good Chance that i will be the Only one of the present leaders who will be at the next Andrew Vaughan Canadian press Alexa Mcdonough clearly int the Leader to bring the new democrats Back to a higher profile and she May very Well be Frank Ounn Canadian press Julie Oliver Canadian press Joe Clark i dont know if it will be in the interest of the party to have me As its Leader in four years from Jean Chretien could easily walk away completely covered in looking awfully w Ontario minister wants to bring conservatives under one Banner key Calls for new party by Mark Gaidar one of the Canadian alliances key Ontario organizers is calling for a new party to bring conserva Tives under one Banner just Days after the Alliance failed to make Federal election gains in the Bob Ontario tory consumer and commercial relations said forming a new party would be the Only Way to give the Small conservative movement a fresh it would also help heal the wounds caused by infighting Between progressive conserva Tives and Alliance supporters during the said Runci the co chairman of the alliances Ontario talked with a couple of conservatives on election Day and we discussed the National polls with 27 per cent for us and 12 per cent for the said Runci if wed found a Way to work without a doubt could have formed the next gov in Runciman Eastern Ontario Riding of Leeds Alliance candidate Gord Tost to incumbent Joe Jujj Dan by 72 elections Najjar if the tory and Alliance Yate had in the they would have beaten Jerdan by about Runciman Gajju is needed to end the among conservatives that have Given the liberals Power the last three the Only Way that process can have Merit is to have a new i dont think it would be difficult to form one because theres not a Heck of a lot of difference Between their Many Dis repeated surveys suggest that if the conservatives were to Van the bulk of the remaining tories would More Likely vote Liberal or nip than Alliance due to concerns about the party social the tory candidate for Leeds was Luke warm to the idea of uniting with the unification i can Tell you certainly i and Many others Are open to looking at working towards some kind of he certainly we c6se our minds to but the creation of a new party i dont Johnston said there would have to be significant changes in Alliance social policies to attract tories to a new Many tories see the Alliance As simply Reform under a Dif Ferent name and Are put off by policies such As citizen initiated he he added that he and other conservatives ire uncomfortable with some of the extremist elements in the Back at the legislature Recto an was Cal onto and Leader Joe my concern has always been that the Federal conservative party is a to Down the Hierarchy of the party has been unwilling to even engage in a grassroots conservatives need to apply pressure to the Leader ship to bring them to the table with the he but Only time will Tell if that can Hap Well have a United Small conservative alternative for the electorate either through a or or Tony Ontario municipal affairs minister and another founding Alliance Mem said a viable righting alternative to be snore than a Western regional does Ontario have to be part of the solution of the future absolutely it this cannot work without but he said he didst have the solution to the current stalemate Between Alliance and conserva Tive run Irnan said his plan for a new party would require a grass roots policy Eunye Jjon Gnoj a leadership concept Pip forming the party now would be a Good he it would need at least two years to properly establish one of the problems for the Juance was it Battle too spoil he Eliise psf the Early election ;