Don’t like the way history paints your ideology? Need to retrofit your history to fit the picture you have in your mind? Need heroes in a party with so few, if any? Give an old time Progressive Conservative a whitewash, put a cape on his back and make him Super Deifenbaker, the man who never was.
But political scientist Paul Thomas says there’s a long-held Conservative sense, especially in Western Canada, that Tory prime ministers have been given short shrift.
Cry a tear for me, Canada. I’m a Conservative.
