McMillan talks of the prejudices which fueled the Reform Party, mainly in the West against Quebec. He forgets or does no know of the hate and bigotry shown by Reform's predecessor in Alberta, the Socreds under Bible Bill Aberhart and his associate pastor Ernest C, Manning. Before Aberhart came to power, they regularly fanned the ethnic flames using his Sunday night radio show Back to the Bible Hour. Particular targets included Ukrainians, Poles, Galicians, Catholics, etc. Even the KKK was in prominence there in this period. From pere Manning to sanctimonious Preston Manning to disciple Harper is not very far.

McMillan also forgets that even the old PC party was home to embarassing crackpots and worse. A couple of Alberta cowboys, a disgraceful defence minister from the maritimes more recently. Joe Clark wisely left these figures out of Cabinet, but they formed part of a runt that stabbed Joe in the back and gave the leadership to Mulroney, who was an old time pol himself in many ways.