The most successful politician this country has ever produced was Ontario premier Bill Davis, who had a simple, easy-to-understand formula for success: fiscally conservative, socially progressive.

I don't agree with everything he stood for - I think full funding of Catholic schools was wrong - but the fact is that line he walked was where most Canadians lived: concerned about their money but accepting of different social norms.

I think that's still where most Canadians are, politically. (There are some extremist pockets here and there, but they generally don't represent the majority.) If the Conservatives can go back to their Davis-like roots, they'll clean up. But if they continue the Trump-like politics of division, they're destined to remain in the wilderness for the foreseeable future.