Fellow Canadians, this  is what Mr.Ibbitson really mant to say:
With this leadership convention, the Conservtive Party  of Canada has turned the  page on  the Harper era by electing a leader who is sufficiently distinct in tone and ideology that he will be able to distinguish hmself from the former leader of the party so that the Conservatives may now move on from a a leadership that was decidedly autocratic and diplayed little interest or respect for the country's democratic nstitutions. 
Canada does not need another Harper; under him the Conservatives wouldn't even do lunch with the opposition!
It has been less than two years ince te old Conservatives were  turfed from office; our memories are not so short.  Let us wish the new Conservative leader well and move on!