Already some on the right are seeking to mobilize opposition to the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada. I can understand exactly why they’re doing this: the deal is awful from the right-wing point of view. Not only does the selection of the leader is proscribes favor the former Progressive Conservatives, but it also concedes to the Toy point of view on all sorts of policy issues. I understand these concerns, I even agree with them: but I’m not going to join the opponents of the deal.

Canadian conservatives have nothing left to lose. The Alliance is a dead-end, the Liberals and the left-wing media has managed to successful smear us as Canada’s version of the Nazi party, an image which seems to be impossible to shake. We’ll probably retain some of our Western base if we go it alone, but I very much doubt that we’ll do much more than that. Who wants to go through all of the effort it will require to bring about that marginal result? To fight a stacked battle year after year? There’s no point to it. No, we need to go into this deal: but we need to go in with our eyes wide open.

Many of the people within the new party are as much our enemies as the Liberals and the NDP are. They hate us and our values and, in general, I suspect that we feel the same way about them. We must be wary of them and always on guard.

Despite this, we need to help the parties merge. We will never get anywhere so long as we have two parties which are viewed in the minds of the people as being ‘conservative’- especially since the Alliance tends to allow itself to drift off to the left during election campaigns. No, we need to merge: and then we need to capture the infrastructure of the new party. Whatever the platform says at the moment (or even during a campaign) is irrelevant: we can change all of that later so long as we have the right people in place. The goal here is to destroy the Tories; we can worry about the rest later. If any of the people we are forced to tolerate for the time being (such as Scott Brison) prove to be particularly loathsome, we can purge them once we win internal power.

Canada is on the verge of destruction. If we allow the right to be destroyed in this election, there will be no hope for a conservative government for another decade (if the Alliance is reduced to thirty seats, how can we possibly expect it to jump to government in the election after the next). What will be left in a decade? We’ll have thousands (or tens of thousands) of married gay couples. Our taxes will be higher than ever and our budget crammed with every possible sort of wasteful government program. Our military will be gone. Our alliance with the United States will be destroyed. By 2014 the Liberals will probably be trying to convince us to join the European Union as a way of propping up our ailing economy and, without doubt, our Government’s friends in Paris will probably be happy to have us.

This is the last fight for Canada: if we lose this one, there will be nothing left to save in this country- the average Canadian will, after another decade down this road, be little different politically than the average German or Frenchman. We will have been fully continentalized. This is a looming disaster, one which cannot be avoided by be easy or pleasant measures. If we are ever to restore the pride of our nation, we have to win an election- and we have to do it now, not in the year 2025.

There is, of course, the very real danger that we could lose all the internal battles within the Conservative Party and thereafter watch it turn into the second incarnation of the Mulroney Tories. However, I think we all know how such a development would be dealt with.

This is the last chance for the West to get back in to Canada. If we fail now- if Westerners and conservatives again find ourselves on the outside looking in, then we shall look elsewhere for salvation. Only this time our leader will not politely state that, “the West wants in,� they’ll shout, “the West wants out!� The time has come to either save this nation or give up on it. If we can’t succeed, then we’ll secede.