A party unspooling in its waning days of power, a prime minister plumbing news depths of unpopularity, the looming threat of an electoral “nightmare scenario” and a newly empowered Reform party hellbent on destroying the national Conservatives.
Canada’s 1993 federal election fundamentally altered the country’s political landscape and shattered its national conservative movement, forcing leaders to spend a decade puzzling over how to rebuild a broken party.
